Camp Waldport records, 1943-1945.

Wilson, Adrian, 1947-....

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Adrian Wilson, born in Michigan in 1923, began his career as a printer in San Francisco in 1944. He at first printed programs and announcements for a theater where his wife, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, was an actress. He designed books for large publishers, but also produced fine limited editions, including work at his own press, The Press in Tuscany Alley. Wilson wrote several major works, including Printing for theater (1957), The design of books (1967), and with his wife The Making of the Nurembe...

Graves, Morris, 1910-2001

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Painter; Washington. From the description of Morris Graves papers, 1932-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502493 Painter; Seattle, Wash. From the description of Morris Graves letters to Derwent and Emma Conlee, [ca. 1950]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566282 ...

Coffield, Glen, 1917-1981

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American poet. From the description of Writings of Glen Coffield [ca.1944-1948]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122453449 Glenn Stemmons Coffield was born in Prescott, Arizona on June 5, 1917. He started writing poetry while a sophomore in high school. He attended Central Missouri State Teachers College in Warrensburg, Missouri where he became president of the English Club and edited the college literary magazine. In 1940 he received his B.S. degre...

Untide Press

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Began in 1943 at the Civilian Public Service camp for conscientious objectors in Waldport, Oregon; William Everson was a founder and director of the camp's Fine Arts Group, from which many contributors were drawn. Ten monographs were published by the press: the first, Ten War Elegies by Everson was published in April 1943; moved to Pasadena, California in 1946 or 1947, after the camp was demobilized. From the description of Collection, 1943-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection...

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

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Patchen and MacLeish, were both American poets. From the description of [Letter, 19]51 Mar. 12, Old Lyme, Conn. [to] Archibald MacLeish / Kenneth Patchen. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 314411191 American poet, novelist, artist. From the description of Letter to Julien Cornell, 1951 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49380977 American poet. From the description of Prospectus for "The Dark Kingdom", 1942. (Universit...

Sheets, Kermit

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Kermit Sheets was a San Francisco-based theater director, printer, illustrator, and publisher. He was romantically involved with poet, actor and filmmaker James Broughton. Sheets and Broughton collaborated on many projects, including the founding of the Centaur Press. From the description of Kermit Sheets pictorial collection [graphic]. ca. 1935-1990. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 76685582 ...

Civilian Public Service

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Civilian Public Service. Camp #56 (Waldport, Or.)

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Camp Waldport, Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp No. 56, was one of three conscientious objector camps in Oregon during World War II. It was established in 1942 and administered by The Civilian Public Service of the Mennonite Central Committee. The main focus of the Camp Waldport interns was the reforestation of Blodgett Peak Burn, a forest that had been heavily logged during World War I and that had suffered devastating wildfires after the war. Camp Waldport was home to the Fine Arts Group, wh...

Brethren Service Committee

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Everson, William, 1912-1994

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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...

Sloan, Jacob.

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