Records of the Taller Martʹin Pescador Press, 1971-[ongoing].

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Records of the Taller Martʹin Pescador Press, 1971-[ongoing].

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Correspondence, printing production materials, chapbooks, invitations, posters, and other materials relating to, or produced by, handpress printer Juan Pascoe. Published monographs were pulled from the collection, catalogued and shelved separately. The bulk of this collection consists of Pascoe's printing production materials. It includes his first efforts at West Branch, Iowa, 1971-1972; his initial press, Imprenta Rascuache, in Mexico, 1973-1975; and his work from his press, Taller Martiʹn Pescador in Mexico. Materials range from calling cards and invitations to exhibition posters; from chapbooks of avant-garde poetry to folio-sized historical studies and bibliographies of Mexican printers of the 16th-18th centuries. Additions expected.

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Cummington Press

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The Cummington Press was founded as a part of the Cummington School of the Arts, a summer program emphasizing collaborations across the fine arts, directed by musician Katharine Frazier in Cummington, Massachusetts. In 1939, Harry Duncan (1916-1997) joined the school and began printing with other students. In the year of Frazier's passing (1941), Duncan met Paul Wightman Williams, Jr., a poet and illustrator, who began to participate in book production, providing woodcut illustrations for severa...

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Juan Pascoe, handpress printer, was born in Chicago in 1946. His father was a Mexican diplomat with the United Nations, and his mother an American. After studying English at Whitman College (BA 1969), Pascoe spent a year as a printing apprentice to Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press in West Branch Iowa (1971-1972). He moved to Mexico in 1973 and first began printing under Imprenta Rasucache, or "Shabby Press," (1973-1975), before founding the Taller Martiʹn Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in 19...

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