Porter Garnett papers, 1916-1951.

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Porter Garnett papers, 1916-1951.

Correspondence, writings, miscellaneous papers, drawings and sketches, examples of fine printing (some mounted). Includes Gelett Burgess material. Correspondence with Grace V. Bird and Elizabeth Sellers often concerns mutual friends, including David "Clink" Greenhood and Helen "Billy" Gentry Greenhood, Witter Bynner, Hildegarde Flanner Monhoff, and Frederick Mortimer Clapp, and discusses Garnett's move to Pittsburgh, Penn. in 1924 to teach and to establish the Laboratory Press. Correspondence between Garnett and Clapp also includes memos and proofs from Garnett's work on printing the Frick catalog.

3 cartons, 8 boxes, 1 volume 2 oversize folders and 1 package.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8332364

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-

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American poet. From the description of Frederick Clapp papers, 1938-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872491 Frederick Mortimer Clapp was an American art historian, educator, and poet, and the first director of The Frick Collection from 1936 to 1951. He was born in New York City in 1879, and attended the City College of New York (1896-1899) and then Yale (1899-1902) receiving a B.A. and M.A. He taught at City College and the University of California extens...

Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...

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...

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...

Bird, Grace V.

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Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

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American author and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad. He taught topographical drawing between 1891 and 1894 at the University of California, Berkeley until he lost his position after deliberately toppling a campus statue he found to be an eyesore. Burgess founded the Lark, a humour magazine based in San Francisco, published from 1895 to 1897. Burgess created nonsense rhymes and cartoons such as "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Myt...

Flanner, Hildegarde, 1899-1987

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Hildegarde Flanner was an American poet whose works were published in various periodicals and in books illustrated by her husband, Frederick Monhoff. From the description of Papers of Hildegarde Flanner, 1923-1983 (bulk 1923-1953). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228721108 Flanner was born in Indianapolis and attended Shortridge High School and the University of California. She became a poet of some renown, and also wrote pl...

Laboratory Press

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