Eugene Richardson printing ephemera collection, circa 1940-1990

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Eugene Richardson printing ephemera collection, circa 1940-1990

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The collection consists of published works and printing ephemera of private presses. The majority of the presses are American, but there is at least one European house. The collection also contains material from commercial companies involved in the printing trade, serial publications about the trade private press directories, and miscellany collected by Eugene Richardson. Most of the collection dates from the second half of the twentieth century.

8.5 linear ft. (21 boxes) plus 1.6 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 notebook) of unprocessed additions

University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Richardson, Eugene Stanley, 1916-....

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Eugene S. Richardson (1916-1983), a paleontologist, had a lifelong interest in letterpress printing. He was proprietor of the Vanishing Press, which he established in 1939, and used the press to publish material about the history of his family, to print Christmas cards, and to prepare material for the "bundles" issued to members by the Amalgamated Printers Association of which he was a prime mover. He retired in 1982 and died the next year. From the description of Eugene Richardson p...

Vanishing Press

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Eugene S. Richardson, proprietor of the Vanishing Press, joined the Department of Geology at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) in 1946 as curator of fossil invetebrates. He was responsible for the design of the Hall of Invertebrate Paleontology at the museum. Richardson's other interest was letterpress printing, and he maintained his Vanishing Press at his country home near Gurnee, Illinois. Richardson established the press in 1939, but after issuing a few publications, his work was ...