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Title: Ninja Press collection
Identifier/Call Number: Printers Mss 35
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
58.59 linear feet
(29 cartons, 15 flat boxes)
Creator:
Campbell, Carolee
Date (inclusive): circa 1969-2009
Date (bulk): 1984-2009
Abstract: Correspondence, articles, lectures, conference, exhibition, and organization files, project files, and related materials of
UCSB book arts graduate and fine press owner Carolee Campbell.
Physical Location: A portion of the collection is located at the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF).
The collection is open for research. A portion of the collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research 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.
[Identification of Item], Ninja Press collection, Printers Mss 35. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase (in installments), 1997-2007.
The collection contains correspondence, articles, lectures, conference, exhibition, and organization files, project files
(announcements, articles, binding, budget, correspondence, design, manuscripts, models, photographs, printing, reviews, and
related materials) of Carolee Campbell, UCSB alumna, book artist, and founder of Ninja Press (named after her black cat).
Among her other credits, Carolee also is an Emmy award winning actress, who appeared on
The Doctors in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and an accomplished photographer.
Ninja Press, devoted largely to poetry, published its first work in 1984. In 1988 Carolee, with the Friends of the UCSB Library,
published Henry David Thoreau's essay "Walking" in a limited edition of 150 copies. At the time, the Thoreau Edition, directed
by Elizabeth Hall Witherell and producing accurate texts of Thoreau's complete works, was located in the library at UCSB.
Detailed descriptions of contents, prepared by Carolee Campbell, are included in each box.
Copies of Ninja Press items associated with this collection have been separated for cataloging, and may be accessed through
the UC Santa Barbara Library Catalog.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Small presses -- California
Articles
Correspondence
Files (Document groupings)
Lectures
Photographs
Campbell, Carolee -- Archives
Ninja Press -- Archives