Finding Aid for the Jake Zeitlin Graphic Arts Ephemera Collection, ca. 1900-
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jake Zeitlin Graphic Arts Ephemera Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1900-
Collection number: 2000
Creator: Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-
Extent: 122 boxes (61 linear ft.)
10 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jake Zeitlin Graphic Arts Ephemera Collection (Collection 2000). Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection consists of materials on typography, printing history, illustration and engraving, bookbinding, private presses,
and fine printing. Includes assorted ephemera such as newsletters, announcements, clippings, memorabilia, keepsakes, and more.
The various presses, printers, designers, and organizations represented include: Bremer Press, Castle Press, Ward Ritchie
Press, Plantin Press, Black Sparrow Press, Whittington Press, Perishable Press, Paradise Press, Edward Gorey, Bruce Rogers,
W.A. Dwiggins, D.B. Updike, F.W. Goudy, the Rounce and Coffin Club of Los Angeles, the Zamorano Club, California Book Club,
and Grolier Club.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Graphic arts.
Genres and Forms of Material
Ephemera.
Box 1
Abbe Press - Amber Beetle Press, Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania).
Box 2
American Institute of Graphic Arts - American Type Founders Company.
Box 3
Ampersand Press - Arion Press, San Francisco, (California).
Box 4
Ark Press, Marazion, (Cornwall, England) - Bauer Type Foundry, Inc., New York.
Box 5
Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt am main, (Germany) - Bits Press, Case Western Reserve University.
Box 6
Bixler, Theodore G. - Book collecting.
Note
Does not include Book Club of California, San Francisco, (California): see boxes 60 (folder 2) and 61 (folder 3).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 7
Book Collectors Club of Los Angeles, (California) - Book Ornamentation.
Box 8
Book People, Berkeley, (California) - Bookbinding.
Physical Description: (folder 2)
Note
Does not include Bookplates - UCLA: see box 61.
Box 1 of 2 for Bookbinding.
Box 9
Bookbinding - Burkhardt, Hans.
Physical Description: (folder 3)
Note
Does not include Booksellers and bookselling: see box 62, additional material shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 2 of 2 for Bookbinding - also missing file folder for Bridewell Library Press, Dallas (Tex.).
Box 10
Burning Deck, Providence, (R.I.) - Carnwath, Squeak.
Box 11
Casey, Michael - Caxton, William.
Box 12
Cayme Press, London (England) - Colt Press, San Francisco, (California).
Note
Does not include Christmas cards: see boxes 63 and 64.
Box 13
Commercial Art - Deakin, Edwin.
Note
Does not include Curwen Press, London, (England): see box 65, additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Also does not include Dahlstrom, Grant, printer: see boxes 65 and 66, additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 14
Dean, Mallette - Eichenberg, Fritz.
Box 15
Elizabeth Press, New Rochelle, (New York) - Feathered Serpent Press, Fairfax (California).
Note
Does not include Ex Ophida, Cottondale, (Alabama): see box 60.
Box 16
Fine Arts Press, Santa Ana, (California) - Gehenna Press, Easthampton, (Massachusetts).
Note
Additional materials shelved for oversize in Smith Room for Gehenna Press, Easthampton, (Massachusetts).
Box 17
Gentry, Helen - Gill, Eric.
Box 18
Gillick Press, Berkeley, (California) - Gooden, Stephen.
Box 19
Gorey, Edward St. John - Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, (California) (folder 2).
Note
Box 1 of 2 for Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, (California).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith room
Box 20
Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, (California) (folder 3) - gutenberg-Gessellschaft, mainz, (Germany).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, (California) - also does not include Grolier club, New York: see boxes 67 and
68.
Box 21
Gutenberg, Johann - Hidy Lance.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Gutenberg, Johann.
Also does not include Herman H. Boelter, Lithography, Los Angeles, (California): see box 68.
Box 22
Hoffman, Carl - Illumination of books & manuscripts - Specimens, reporductions, etc. (folder 1).
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Hoffman, Carl - box 1 of 2 for Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Specimens, reproductions, etc.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 23
Illumination of books and manuscripts - etc. (folder 2) - Impressus Minor, El rito, (New Mexico).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Illumination of books and manuscripts - Specimens, reproductions, etc.
Box 24
Imprint Society, Barre, (Massachusetts) - Kent, Corita.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Imprint society, Barre, (Massachusetts) - also does not include Kennedy,
Lawton R.: see boxes 68 & 69.
Box 25
Kent, Rockwell - Lakeside Press, Chicago, (Illinois) (folder 1).
Note
Box 1 of 2 for Lakeside Press, Chicago, (Illinois).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 26
Lakeside Press, Chicago, (Illinois) (folder 2) - Lettering.
Note
Box 2 of 2 for lakeside Press, Chicago, (Illinois).
Box 27
Libanus Press, Hermitage, (Berkshire) - Limited Editions Club. Monthly Newsletter.
Box 28
Lindsey, Norman - Mandrake Press, London, (England).
Box 29
Mann, William C., firm typefounders, Los Angeles, (California) - Mergenthaler Linotype Company, etc. (folder 1).
Note
Does not include Masreel, Frans, 1889-1971: see boxes 69-72.
Also box 1 of 2 for Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, (New York).
Box 30
Mergenthaler, Linotype Company, Brooklyn, (New York) (folder 2) - Morris, William (folder 1).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, (New York).
Box 1 of 2 for Morris, William.
Box 31
Morris, William (folder 2) - Nash, John Henry.
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Morris, William.
Does not include Mosher, Thomas Bird: see box 73.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Nash, John Henry.
Box 32
New Directions, Norfolk, (Connecticut) - Olschki, firm, booksellers, Florence (Italy).
Box 33
O'Neill, Rose Cecil - Parrish, Maxfield.
Note
Additional materials for Overbrook Press, Stamford, (Connecticut): see box 74.
Does not include Paper making and trade: see boxes 75-79.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room - additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Parrish, Maxfield.
Box 34
Paul Elder and company, San Francisco, (California) - Penmanship (folder 1).
Note
Box 1 of 2 for Penmanship.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 35
Penmanship (folder 2) - Philobiblion, New York, (New York).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Penmanship.
Box 36
Pickering, William - Primavera Press, Los Angeles, (California).
Note
Does not include Plantin Pressk, Los Angeles, (California): see box 80.
Box 37
Princeton Print Club - Publishers and Publishing.
Note
Does not include Prints, Examples: see boxes 80 & 81.
Box 38
Putah Creek Press, Davis, (California) - Reagh, Patrick.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith room for Reagh, Patrick.
Box 39
Rebis Press, Berkeley, (California) - Rougemont Press, Exminster, (Devon).
Boxes 40-44
Rounce and Coffin Club, Los Angeles, (California).
Note
5 boxes.
Additional materials shelved in Smith Room.
Boxes 45-46
Roxburghe Club & Zamorano Club - Joint meeting keepsakes.
Note
Boxes 1 and 2 of 3.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 47
Roxburghe Club & Zamorano club - Joint meeting keepsakes - The Seizin Press, Deya Majorca.
Note
Box 3 of 3.
Does not include Roxburghe Club, San Francisco, (California): see boxes 81 & 82.
Box 48
Sendak, Maurice - Somesuch Press, Dallas, (Texas).
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Sendak, Maurice.
Does not include Sherbow, Benjamin: see boxes 82 & 83.
Box 49
Something Else Press, New York - Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, (Vermont).
Note
Does not include Stamperia Ampersand, Verona: see box 60.
Box 50
Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, (Vermont) - Tallone, Alberto, Printer.
Box 51
Tamal Land Press, Fairfax, (California) - Turkey Press, Goleta, (California).
Box 52
Tuumba Press, Berkeley, (California) - Updike, Daniel Berkeley.
Note
Does not include Type and type-founding: see boxes 83 & 84.
Box 53
Vagabond Press, Ellensburg, (Washington) - Watch Hill Press, Peekskill, (New York).
Box 54
Watts, Steve, printer - Wind Vein Press, Ketchum, (Idaho).
Note
Missing file folder: White Rabbit Press, San Francisco, (California).
Box 55
Wit and humor, pictorial - Young & McCallister, printers.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Young & McCallister, printers.
Boxes 56-59
Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, (California).
Note
4 boxes.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 59
Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, (California) - Zamorano Club - Roby Wentz Collection.
Box 60
Zapf, Hermann - Book Club of California, San Francisco, (California) (folder 2).
Note
Box 1 of 2 for Book Club of California, San Francisco, (California).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 61
Book Club of California, San Francisco, (California) (folder 3) - Bookplates - UCLA.
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Book Club of California, San Francisco, (California).
Box 62
Bookselers and bookselling.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Boxes 63-64
Christmas cards.
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 65
Curwen Press, London, (England) - Dahlstrom, Grant, printer (folder 1).
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Curwen Press, London, (England).
Box 1 of 2 for Dahlstrom, Grant, printer.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 66
Dahlstrom, Grant, printer.
Box 68
Grolier Club, New York - Kennedy, Lawton R. (folder 2).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Grolier Club, New York - includes Herman H. Boelter, Lithography, Los Angeles, (California).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for H. Boelter - box 1 of 2 for Kennedy, Lawton R,.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 69
Kennedy, Lawton R. (folder 3) - Masereel, Frans.
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Kennedy, Lawton R.
Box 1 of 4 for Masereel, Frans.
Box 74
Overbrook Press, Stamford, (Connecticut).
Note
Additional materials included in box 33.
Box 80
Plantin Press, Los Angeles, (California) - Prints, Examples (folder 1).
Note
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room for Plantin Press, Los Angeles, (California) - box 1 of 2 for Prints,
Examples.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 81
Prints, Examples (folder 2) - Roxburghe Club, San Francisco, (California) (folder 11).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Prints, Examples.
Box 1 of 2 for Roxburghe Club, San Francisco, (California).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 82
Roxburghe Club, San Francisco, (California) (folder 12) - Sherbow, Benjamin (folder 1).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Roxburghe Club, San Francisco, (California).
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
Box 1 of 2 for Sherbow, Benjamin.
Box 83
Sherbow, Benjamin (folder 2) - Type and type-founding (folder 4).
Note
Box 2 of 2 for Sherbow, Benjamin.
Box 1 of 2 for Type and type-founding.
Additional materials shelved oversize in Smith Room.
