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Title: Kemble Z3 Ephemera Collection
Date (inclusive): 1802-2013
Date (bulk): 1900-1970
Collection Identifier: Kemble
Z3
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org
Language of Materials: Collection materials are primarily in
English.
Abstract: The collection comprises a wide variety of
ephemera pertaining to printing practice, culture, and history in the Western
Hemisphere. Dating from 1802 to 2013, the collection includes ephemera created by or
relating to booksellers, printers, lithographers, stationers, engravers, publishers,
type designers, book designers, bookbinders, artists, illustrators, typographers,
librarians, newspaper editors, and book collectors; bookselling and bookstores,
including new, used, rare and antiquarian books; printing, printing presses,
printing history, and printing equipment and supplies; lithography; type and
type-founding; bookbinding; newspaper publishing; and graphic design. Types of
ephemera include advertisements, announcements, annual reports, brochures,
clippings, invitations, trade catalogs, newspapers, programs, promotional materials,
prospectuses, broadsides, greeting cards, bookmarks, fliers, business cards,
pamphlets, newsletters, price lists, bookplates, periodicals, posters, receipts,
obituaries, direct mail advertising, book catalogs, and type specimens. Materials
printed by members of Moxon Chappel, a San Francisco-area group of private press
printers, are extensive.
CHS is not taking appointments for research at this time. Please check the Library's website updates:
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Director of Library and Archives, North Baker
Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco,
CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the
owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from
the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Kemble Ephemera Collection, California Historical
Society.
California Biography Collection
California Business Ephemera Collection
California Ephemera Collection
San Francisco Ephemera Collection
Menu Collection
Theater Ephemera Collection
Additions to the collection are ongoing.
Re-processed by California Historical Society staff in 2010-2013.
Collection files are arranged in alphabetical order by name of press, printer,
company, event, title, individual, or topic. Ephemera created by a press or printer
for the Moxon Chappel group is filed under the name of that press or printer in a
separate folder containing Moxon Chappel materials.
Oversized ephemera is listed separately, also in alphabetical order. Very large
oversized materials are stored separately in a folder.
The collection comprises a wide variety of ephemera pertaining to printing practice,
culture, and history in the Western Hemisphere. Dating from 1802 to 2013, the
collection includes ephemera created by or relating to booksellers, printers,
lithographers, stationers, engravers, publishers, type designers, book designers,
bookbinders, artists, illustrators, typographers, librarians, newspaper editors, and
book collectors; bookselling and bookstores, including new, used, rare and
antiquarian books; printing, printing presses, printing history, and printing
equipment and supplies; lithography; type and type-founding; bookbinding; newspaper
publishing; and graphic design. Types of ephemera include advertisements,
announcements, annual reports, brochures, clippings, invitations, trade catalogs,
newspapers, programs, promotional materials, prospectuses, broadsides, greeting
cards, bookmarks, fliers, business cards, pamphlets, newsletters, price lists,
bookplates, periodicals, posters, receipts, obituaries, direct mail advertising,
book catalogs, and type specimens.
The collection contains significant quantities of ephemera created by San Francisco
booksellers, stationers, printers, and presses in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century; ephemera related to university libraries and presses in the
United States; and examples of early California newspapers, including small town and
foreign language newspapers. There are significant holdings of ephemera related to
printers Lawton and Alfred Kennedy and Robert and Edwin Grabhorn, and associations
such as the Book Club of California and the International Association of Printing
House Craftsmen, Inc., and its local and regional chapters. Materials printed by
members of Moxon Chappel, a San Francisco-area group of private press printers, are
also extensive.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog:
Moxon Chappel.
Advertisements.
Advertising blotters.
Advertising, Direct-mail.
Announcements.
Annual reports.
Artists.
Auction catalogs.
Book catalogs.
Book collecting.
Book designers.
Bookbinders.
Bookbinding.
Bookmarks.
Bookplates.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Bookstores.
Broadsides.
Brochures.
Business cards.
California Ephemera Project.
Clippings.
Engravers.
Ephemera.
Fliers (printed matter).
Graphic design.
Greeting cards.
Illustrators.
Invitations.
Librarians.
Lithographers.
Lithography.
Newsletters.
Newspaper editors.
Newspaper publishing.
Newspapers.
Obituaries.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals.
Posters.
Price lists.
Printers.
Printing equipment and supplies.
Printing--History.
Printing-presses.
Printing.
Programs.
Promotional materials.
Prospectuses.
Publishers.
Receipts.
Stationers.
Trade catalogs.
Type and type-founding.
Type designers.
Type specimens.
Typographers.