Baxter Society collection, 1984-[ongoing].

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Baxter Society collection, 1984-[ongoing].

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Correspondence, membership lists, attendance book (1985-1994), meeting announcements, Dorothy Healy (Maine author and librarian) biographical sketches for the book: A Passionate Intensity, correspondence and other materials relating to the Art of the Printed Book exhibit at Westbrook College in 1978 (including correspondence between curator Grace Barney and printmaker Douglass Morse Howell), posters, printed publications, brochures, etc.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Baxter Society

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Book arts and book collecting group based in Portland, Me., established in 1984; namedin honor of James Phinney Baxter (1831-1921), Portland mayor, scholar, businessman, and philanthropist. From the description of Baxter Society collection, 1984-[ongoing]. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70923095 ...

American printing history association

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The American Printing History Association (APHA) was founded as the result of a proposal published by Walter Kubelius in his column, "The Printing Whirl," in the 1971 issue of "Printing Impressions". Kubelius proposed that an American Printing Historical Society should be founded to foster scholarship and to serve as a forum for the exchange of knowledge. At the time, it was thought that the society should be developed as an American chapter of the Printing Historical So...

Howell, Douglass Morse

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Howell (1906-1994) was an artist seeking better paper for his wood engravings in the 1930s when he began to create papers in New York City. Later he moved operations to Long Island. His papers were made from linen or home-grown flax. It was the texture, color and weight that set his papers apart from other handmade papers. Howell also lectured and wrote on the history of paper and its uses in print and bookmaking, and his papers were used by artists for their printing, collage, drawing and water...

Healy, Dorothy, 1914-1990

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Westbrook College

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Cowan, Nancy

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Barry, William David

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Conrad A. and Mary Ellen Roberge moved from Tingwick, Quebec to Biddeford, Me., in 1947 where they bought a house and raised nine children. Mary Ellen was a noted seamstress and doll-maker. Her daughters, Celeste and Estelle, became prominent artists. From the description of Roberge family collection, 1984-2009. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 399873455 Curator of the exhibit "Women Pioneers in Maine Art, 1900-45" at the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of...

Serette, Dave W.

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Barney, Grace

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