[Mapcase collection] 1640-20-- / Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.

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[Mapcase collection] 1640-20-- / Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.

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This collection includes printed ephemera (broadsides, prospectuses, cards, and posters), maps (ca. 1640-1938), newspapers, mostly United States (1774-1908), and artwork. Some of the work in the collection was printed at the Catawba Press (Barbara B. Blumenthal), Gehenna Press (Leonard Baskin), Ives Street Press (Barbara Cash), Pennyroyal Press (Barry Moser), Stinehour Press, and the Smith College Student Printing Office. There also is printed ephemera by and about Elliot Offner and other western Massachusetts presses. The newspapers include miscellaneous issues of American newspapers. The artwork includes prints and drawings.

37 drawers

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776071

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Gehenna press

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Catawba Press

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Offner, Elliot

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Offner was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1931. He studied at the Cooper Union and then at Yale University (B.F.A., 1953; M.F.A., 1959). He taught at Smith College for over thirty years where he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities. He is known for his scultpures, especially of animals and the human figure, and as a printmaker. From the description of [Bas-reliefs] / Offner. [1992]. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 85822206 ...

Ives Street Press

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Pennyroyal (Firm)

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Smith College. Student Printing Office.

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Stinehour Press

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Moser, Barry

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Moser was born on Oct. 15, 1940 in Chattanooga, TN; became a graphic artist and printmaker; attended Auburn Univ.; studied with George Cress at the Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and with Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin; head of studio art, Williston Northampton School (1967-82), and beginning in 1990, with the Rhode Island School of Design; exhibited in one-man shows at the Berkshire Museum (1973) and the Boston Athenaeum (1976); also exhibited at the Los Angeles National Print Show (1974) a...

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Smith College. Mortimer Rare Book Room.

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Smith College.

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Since 1900, Christmas at Smith College has involved the sending of cards, the singing of carols and the annual Vespers. Smith College's Christmas Vespers has allowed religious and non-religious students alike to come together and appreciate the music and spirit of the holiday season. At this annual candlelight ceremony, Smith College choral groups perform seasonal songs and religious readings. From the description of Records of Christmas at Smith College, 1900-[ongoing]. (Smith Colle...

Blumenthal, Barbara B.

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