Laboratory Press records, 1922-1936.

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Laboratory Press records, 1922-1936.

Correspondence addressed to the Laboratory Press and to Porter Garnett, its director. The letters are from many names well known in the field of graphic arts such as Douglas McMurtrie, Frederic Warde, Carl Purington Rollins, and Dard Hunter, and are mainly on subjects of professional interest.

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Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951

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Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded "The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12), and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett was also an active member of the Bohemian Club. From the description of Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me...

McMurtie, Douglas.

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Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Laboratory Press

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Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939

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Book designer, typographer and printer. Frederic Warde (1894-1939) was best known in the field of graphic arts as a book designer and in association with the Arrighi typeface. He was also a writer, editor, and, on occasion, a perfumer. After service in World War I, Warde worked as an editor at Macmillan? though they would eventually divorce, his ex-wife would achieve her own fame in the world of graphic arts as Beatrice Warde. Warde became designer for the Princeton University Press...

Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960

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Rollins was a book designer long associated with the Yale University Press (1918-1948). From the description of [Letters] 1935 / Carl P. Rollins. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 352927040 Carl Purington Rollins was born in 1880 in West Newbury, Massachussets. He attended Harvard University from 1897-1900, and worked at Heintzemann Press in Boston before joining New Clairvaux, a rural Utopian community, in Montague, Massachusetts,in 1903. Rollins taught prin...