[Collection of printed books and ephemera produced by the Harbor Press, New York] 1925-1941.

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[Collection of printed books and ephemera produced by the Harbor Press, New York] 1925-1941.

Books, pamphlets, and ephemera printed at the Harbor Press, including exhibition catalogues, bookseller's catalogues, cards, bookplates, Harbor Press announcements and book lists, and sections printed for the journal The Colophon.

1 box (76 items) : ill. (some col.) ; 5-27 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086107

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Fass, John S. (John Stroble), 1890-

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Wood, Roland Armstrong, 1897-1967

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Wood, Elizabeth Wyandt,

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Harbor Press

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The Harbor Press, a fine press printer and publisher in New York City that operated from 1925 to 1942, was founded by John Fass and Roland Wood (AC 1920), together with his wife Elizabeth Wyandt Wood. The two men had formerly worked together at the printing and publishing house of William Edwin Rudge of Mount Vernon, New York. While at Rudge, they had worked alongside renowned book designer Bruce Rogers, and it is clear that Rogers' modernist yet classical design sensibility had a s...