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Title: J.E. Woodhead collection of Roycroft Press and Elbert Hubbard materials
Collection number: 0162
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Container: 1
Physical Description:
0.84 Linear feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1896-1915
Abstract: This small collection contains letters, essays, broadsides, clippings, and photographs, created by and for Elbert Hubbard,
an American writer, publisher, and philosopher, and founder of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft. The materials were
collected by J.E. Woodhead in the course of his book collecting activities. In addition to publications produced by Hubbard's
Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, and by the Roycrofters, it also contains letters from the Hubbards to the J.E. Woodhead
and his wife regarding Roycroft publications.
creator:
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915
creator:
Roycroft Shop.
creator:
Woodhead, J.E., (John Edward), 1840-1918
J.E. Woodhead papers, Collection no. 0004.
[Box/folder# or item name], J.E. Woodhead collection of Roycroft Press and Elbert Hubbard materials, Collection no. 0162,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
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Elbert Hubbard was born on June 19, 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois and was raised in Hudson, Illinois. He began his career
as a travelling salesman with the Larkin Soap Company. In 1895, he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community,
in East Aurora, New York. Roycroft was an outgrowth of the private press founded by Hubbard in collaboration with his first
wife, Bertha. Hubbard and his second wife, Alice, died on May 7, 1915 at the sinking of the Lusitania.
J.E. (John Edward) Woodhead was born in Leeds, England on August 2, 1840 and died in Chicago on October 24, 1918. A successful
businessman, Woodhead developed an interest in book collecting, and established a 4000-plus volume private library. He also
served as Secretary of the World's Congress Auxiliary Section of Weights, Measures, and Coinage at the World's Columbian Exposition;
was a founder and officer (secretary) of the Cosmic Publishing Company, publisher of "Mind in Nature"; a founding member of
the Western Society for Psychical Research (founded 1885 in Chicago); and the founder and manager of the National Letter Return
Association (1885-1895).
This small collection contains letters, essays, broadsides, clippings, and photographs, created by and for Elbert Hubbard,
an American writer, publisher, and philosopher, and collected by J.E. Woodhead. In addition to publications produced by Hubbard's
Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, and by the Roycrofters, it also contains letters from the Hubbards to the J.E. Woodhead
and his wife regarding Roycroft publications. J.E. Woodhead, a Chicago businessman, was an avid book collector. Also included
in this collection is Hubbard's best-selling essay, A Message to Garcia (1.2, 1.3, 2.6).
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 -- Archives
Roycroft Shop. -- Archives
Woodhead, J.E., (John Edward), 1840-1918 -- Archives
Book collectors--Illinois--Chicago--Archival resources
Brochures
Clippings
Ephemera
Letters
Photographs
Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--Archival resources