Helen Gentry and David Greenhood papers, 1748-1988 (bulk 1930-1980).

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Helen Gentry and David Greenhood papers, 1748-1988 (bulk 1930-1980).

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Contains materials relating to Helen Gentry's career as a printer and designer, and David Greenhood's work as a writer. The Helen Gentry Papers comprise Gentry's personal and professional correspondence, mock-ups and notes for her printing and design projects, and records from her work with Holiday House. Her writings include published articles and speeches. The collection also includes awards, reviews, programs, and publications related to Gentry's work, as well as her small collection of fine printing specimens and ephemera. Projects represented span her early work as Helen Gentry Press, her designs for major New York publishing houses, her contributions to Holiday House, and her later freelance work from New Mexico. The David Greenhood Papers primarily consist of correspondence and writings, including many unpublished drafts of novels, poems, and other works. The collection also includes material related to Greenhood's editorial work at Holiday House, and papers from Porter Garnett and W.W. Lyman.

7 cartons (8.25 linear feet)

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Harter, Evelyn

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Holiday House (Firm)

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Gentry Press

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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...

Lyman, William Whittingham.

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Online Archive of California

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Gentry, Helen, 1897-

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Helen "Billy" Gentry (1897-1988) was a printer, book designer, and typographer. Trained in fine bookmaking and printing at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, she started the Helen Gentry Press in 1930. In 1934, she moved with her husband David Greenhood to New York, where she did design work for Simon and Schuster and other publishing houses, including designing the classic 1953 Harper & Brothers edition of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In 1935, she co-founde...

Greenhood, David.

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Biographical Information Helen Gentry Helen "Billy" Gentry (1897-1988) was a printer, book designer, and typographer. Born in California, she attended the University of California, Berkeley. She trained in fine bookmaking and printing at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco -- where she was not allowed to do presswork, as Ed Grabhorn did not think it was a suitable job for a woman -- and further develop...