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Press coll. Archives Peregrine
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Title: Peregrine Press and Henry H. Evans Collection
Dates: 1950-1988
Collection Number: Press coll. Archives Peregrine
Creator/Collector:
Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-1990
Extent: 19 boxes (12 linear feet), plus flat files
Repository:
UCLA. Clark (William Andrews) Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90018
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, designs, photographs, prints, artwork and ephemera produced by Henry H. Evans and the Peregrine
Press.
Language of Material: English
This collection is open to researchers.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA 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.
Peregrine Press and Henry H. Evans Collection. UCLA. Clark (William Andrews) Memorial Library
Gift, 1956-1975 from Henry Evans.
Gift, 1956 from Patricia Evans.
Biography/Administrative History
Evans was born in Superior, WI, in 1918; alumnus of the Univ. of California, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco
State College, and the Univ. of Arizona; opened the Porpoise Book Shop in 1942 in Tucson, AZ, and relocated it to San Francisco,
CA, in 1944; in 1949 he bought a hand press and began printing books of poetry and later began producing block prints of his
own; many of his linocuts were botanical prints and still lifes, and he produced prints of over 600 subjects.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, prints, preliminary proofs and sketches, printed catalogs and photographs
related to or produced by Henry H. Evans of the Peregrine Press. The majority of correspondence is between Evans and Mel
Fowler (1959-74). The collection also contains some some prints, proofs, and sketches by Fowler.
Printers--California--20th century
Fowler, Mel
Peregrine Press
Correspondence--20th century
Prints--20th century