Preliminary Guide to the Don Olsen / Ox Head Press Collection
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Preliminary Guide to the Don Olsen / Ox Head Press Collection, 1967-2003
Collection number: Printers Mss 65
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Aug. 6, 2008
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Don Olsen / Ox Head Press Collection
Dates: 1967-2003
Collection number: Printers Mss 65
Creator:
Olsen, Don, 1931-
Collection Size:
0.6 linear feet
(2 oversize boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The collection includes limited edition material by Robert Bly, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Keats, Ursula K. LeGuin, Pablo Neruda
(tr. by Olsen), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Walt Whitman.
Physical location: Del Sur Oversize
Languages:
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
Don Olsen / Ox Head Press Collection. Printers Mss 65. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Sanford Dorbin, 2007-2008.
Scope and Content Notes
See attached list provided by donor for detailed description of the contents of the collection.
The collection includes limited edition material by Robert Bly, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Keats, Ursula K. LeGuin, Pablo Neruda
(tr. by Olsen), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Walt Whitman.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Olsen, Don, 1931-
Ox Head Press
Small presses--United States.
Box 1: 1
I: Numbered Chapbooks (Ox Head series),
1967-1986
Box 1: 2
II: Minnesota Miniatures (numbered series),
1990-1994,
1999
Box 1: 3
III: Unnumbered Chapbooks
Box 2: 4
VIII: Botanical (Leaf) Prints
Box 2: 6
Correspondence: Don Olsen to Sanford Dorbin,
1975-2003
Box 2: 7
Miscellaneous, including articles by/about Don Olsen
Tape No. V2511/VHS
VHS videotape: Don Olsen Oct. 2001 interview
