Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Robert Loos Dothard Collection
Date (inclusive): ca. 1938-1963
Collection number: Printers Mss 6
Creator: Dothard, Robert L.
Extent: .2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Del Sur
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Robert Loos Dothard Collection. Printers Mss 6. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Hobart Skofield, 1980.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, Christmas cards, stock certificates and ephemera of Robert Loos Dothard, ca. 1938-1963,
mainly relating to the printing firm of William E. Rudge's Sons, Inc. Dothard was one of the five original partners of the
firm and the firm's typographer for several years. He later had a long, distinguished career as a book designer, with many
of his books being accepted for the Fifty Books exhibitions of the American institute of Graphic Arts.