Guide to the Ninja Press collection Printers Mss 35
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Walking, by Henry David Thoreau (1988)
Articles and essays on Thoreau, budget and finances, correspondence, lecture, reviews, copy and transcript of original 'Walking' manuscript, research materials, audiotape by Lawrence Willson [moved to a/v section]
Announcement, broadside, design, typesetting, uncorrected galley proofs, photographs, presswork, finances, three audiotapes of CC reading text for proofing [moved to a/v section], models, binding components
Imaginary Burden Correspondence
El Sol de Abajo, by José Montoya (1992)
The Real World of Manuel Córdova, by W. S. Merwin (1995)
Orange County Weekends 1987-1988
Idyllwild School for Music and the Arts (ISOMATA) Aug. 21-26, 1988
The Woman's Building Jan-Feb. 1989
ISOMATA Aug-Sept. 1989
UCSB Book Arts Workshop - guest lecturer 1989, 1990
ISOMATA July 22-27, 1990
Otis/Parsons School of Art & Design Fall 1991-Fall 1994
CC's handouts: essays and binding instructions
Bringhurst, Robert 1993-1996
Bromer, Anne 1989-1993
Califia Books - Edwina Leggett 1988-1996
Corbin, Harold 1987-1996
Dahl (Hannon), Nancy 1987-1991
Fine Arts Press at USC - Gerald Lange 1991-1992
Flanagan, Daniel 1986-1996
Floating Island Publications - Michael Sykes 1988-1995
Granary Books - Steve Clay 1989-1996
Hannon, Michael, and Nancy Dahl 1986-1996
Hungary, re Budapest trip 1990-1991
The Ives Street Press - Barbara Cash 1984-1995
The Janus Press - Claire Van Vliet 1985-1996
McDermott, Louise - Books on Italy 1989-1996
Paradise Press 1987-1996
Price, Robin 1990-1996
Purgatory Pie Press
Sleight, Ken - Pack Creek Ranch
Theodore Press / Sarah Books - Michael Alpert 1989-1995
Turkey Press - Harry and Sandra Reese 1984-1996
Two Hands Press - Kitty Maryatt 1988-1996
UCLA Special Collections - James Davis 1991
The Witkin Gallery - Evelyne Daitz 1987-1996
The Women of Letters 1988-1996
Gift Manuscripts
Hannon, Michael - poems and correspondence
Andrews, Betty - poems, possible future projects, published writing
Organizations
The Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts (ACBA) - treasurer/secretary, 1988-1996; minutes, calendars
Rounce and Coffin Club - correspondence and ephemera 1995-1996
The Typophiles, Inc. - correspondence and ephemera 1985-1996
The Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts Journal, edited by Carolee Campbell
Journal copy - AbraCadaBrA, no. 8 (Spring 1994)
Proof copies for editing
Early editorial decisions and correspondence
Front and back matter, columns, letters to the editor
Carolee Campbell Introduction
Alpert, Michael - essay and correspondence
Davids, Betsy - essay and correspondence
Gallo, Philip - essay and correspondence
Kelm, Daniel - essay and correspondence
Lange, Gerald - essay
Van Vliet, Claire - essay and correspondence
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1984-1996
UCSB Book Arts printing classes - first printing projects 1984
"Courting Sorrow," by Carolee Campbell - chapbook 1984
"Flip Book," for Claire Van Vliet 1985
"Winter Solstice," by Michael Hannon - broadside 1986
Linda Baca / Ron Ulstad wedding announcement 1987
"The Basilisk" - keepsake for Charlene Garry, Basilisk Press 1987
"November Day at McClure's," by Robert Bly - broadside 1987
"The Imitation of Christ," by Michael Hannon - broadside 1987
Margaret Lecky's 80th birthday invitation 1987
The Platypus Portfolio 1987
UCSB Senior Exhibition announcement 1987
"Waiting Snow: Connecticut," by Harold Corbin - keepsake 1988
Margaret Lecky Memorial keepsake 1988
"Precautions," by Eugenio Montale - Ninja Press business card 1988
John Muir quote - broadside 1988
Poetry readings at Ninja Press announcement 1988
"Greece," a portfolio of platinum photographs by Dana Strout - front matter 1988
"Adam Clark Vroman," a boxed set for Southwest Museum - front and back matter 1988
"The Poet at Fifty," by Michael Hannon - keepsake 1989
"The Platypus Portfolio II" - front matter and announcement 1989
"The Sound of One," a portfolio of silver photographs by Charlotte Watts - accompanying book of front matter, essay, and back matter 1989
Craig Klyver / Cheryl Barton wedding announcement 1990
"Twin Double-Barrel Shogun," by José Montoya - broadside 1990
"--- and thus the angels fly ---," by G. K. Chesterton - keepsake 1990
Hector Elizondo calling card 1990
"The Boteman Strayt," by Edmund Spencer - broadside 1991
"High Mesa Land," by Betty Andrews - broadside 1991
Georgia Freedman-Harvey new home announcement 1991
"A Happy Dog Is," by José Montoya - broadside 1991
Seven Eggs - broadside 1991
"Ninja Press Books in Print" - catalogue 1992
"A Love Medicine," by Louise Erdrich - chap book 1992-1994
"Perfect," by Michael Hannon - keepsake 1992
Ninja Press Exhibition announcement at Arundel Antiquarian Books - broadside 1992
"Two Poems," by Betty Andrews - chap book; correspondence 1994
"Picnics & The Subject of Desire," by Anita Wilkins - chap book 1996
Miscellany - business cards, book title labels
Published Essays
"Thoughts on Ward Ritchie," for exhibition catalogue 1991
"An Argument for Lying Fallow" for AbraCadaBrA, the journal for The Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts 1993
"Peter Koch, Printer," for The Book Club of California Newsletter, 1994 - 2 audiotapes - interview with Peter Koch for Book Club of California Newsletter essay, 1994 [moved to a/v section]
Manuscripts Submitted
"Poems," Gordon Orville Bain
"Theory of Rain" and "Stride," Lindsay Hill
"A Field Survey," Margaret Kaufman
Essays, Fa Poonvoralak
"You're Real, Aren't You?" Brooks Roddan
"Nine Muses," John Ridland - incl. correspondence
"Butterfly Effect," Mary Staton
Master list of exhibitions 1969-1996
UCSB College of Creative Studies Hall Display Sept. - Nov. 1985
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1986-1987
National Collegiate Book Arts Exhibition (traveling two years) 1986-1987
"Undercover" - Fresno Arts Center, CA 1987
"Bookworks: Art from the Page" - Salem Art Association, Oregon 1987
"Against the Grain" - College of Creative Studies Art Gallery, UCSB 1987
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1987-1988
"Books without Bounds" - Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA 1987-1988
Members Exhibition - Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco, CA 1987-1988
Women Fine Press Publishers in Los Angeles - Cal State Northridge 1989
"Book in Hand" - Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado 1989
Members Exhibition, Hand Bookbinders of California - Stanford University, CA 1989
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1989-1990
"A Southern California Decade" - UCLA 1989-1990
Miscellaneous exhibitions 1984-1989
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1991-1992
"Cross-Currents: Bookworks from the Edge of the Pacific" (traveling three years) 1990-1993
"The Laguna Verde Imprenta Years" (Ward Ritchie) - Cal State Long Beach 1991
"California Artists' Books" - Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 1991-1992
"Library" - Granary Books, NYC 1992
"Letterpress Works" - Cooper Union School of Art, NYC 1992
Budapest exhibition, Hungary 1992
"Word & Image" - San Francisco Public Library 1992
Ninja Press Exhibition - Arundel Antiquarian Books, Los Angeles 1992
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1992-1993
Members Exhibition - Hand Bookbinders of California, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum 1992-1993
"Beyond the Book" - Pomona College Art Gallery, CA 1993
Western Books Exhibition (traveling two years) 1993-1994
"Inky Fingers" - Center for the Book Arts, NYC 1994
"Dressing the Text" - Art Museum, Santa Cruz County, CA 1995
"Washi: Beauty & Function" - Japanese/American Cultural Center, Los Angeles 1995
"Open Book" - Cal Poly, Pomona 1996
Ninja Press Exhibition - Artworks at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1996
"Beginnings: A Letterpress Exhibition" Santa Barbara City College Art Gallery, CA 1996
Ninja Press Exhibition and Lecture - Beverly Hills Public Library, CA 1996
Members Exhibition - Hand Bookbinders of California (traveling) 1998
Miscellaneous exhibitions 1990-1995
Articles about Ninja Press Listings
Press listings
Related articles about Ninja Press
"Rendezvous," Spring 1994; "Artweek," Jan. 1995
Fifty Years of the Cummington Press, University of Nebraska, Omaha 1989
Mills College Book Fair, Oakland, CA 1992
Guild of Bookworkers Standards of Excellence Conference, San Francisco, CA 1992
American Printing History Association Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA 1996
Guild of Bookworkers Standards of Excellence Conference, Pasadena, CA 1996
Bookbinding Instructions
Leather Staining, Dying, and Decorating - Terry Buckley, Senior Lecturer, London College of Printing
Limp Vellum Binding - Christopher Clarkson, Library of Congress
Structure & Action in Hand Bookbinding - Gary Frost, BookLab, Austin, TX
Exposed Spine Binding - Louise Genest
Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Conference - Presenters Instructions: Claire Van Vliet, Bernard Middleton, Daniel Kelm
Photo Albums - Richard Horton
Box Making Workshop - Daniel Kelm
Wire Binding Workshop - Daniel Kelm
Bookbinding Instructions - Margaret Lecky, UCLA
Workshop Notes and Instructions - Kitty Maryatt, Two Hands Press
Bookbinding Instructions - Miscellany
Leather On-lays and in-lays - Tina Miura
Star Book - Bonnie Thompson Norman
Bookbinding Instructions - Olivia Primanis Workshop
Bookbinding Instructions - Georgia Scott
Bookmaking and Typography Essays
"On Binding Limited Editions" - Carol Joyce
"The Natural Proportions of a Well-made Book" - Eric Gill
Miscellaneous Instructions
Fine Arts Press Printing Workshop - Gerald Lange, The Bieler Press
Punchcutting Workshop - Stan Nelson, Smithsonian Institution
Zinc Plate Making - Women of Letters Workshop, Donna Westerman
Paper Marbling Instructions
Paper Marbling Workshop, Don Guyot, The Colophon Book Arts Supply
Papermaking Instructions
Papermaking: correspondence and ephemera
Papermaking, Eastern and Western Workshop - Harry Reese and Sukey Hughes
"No one but a vandal ---," 1985
"Harpoon for the Dreamer & Other Poems," Michael Hannon 1988
Fisher Gallery at USC Commemorative Book 1989
"The Insect Poems," W. S. Merwin, n.d.
Jackalopes 1989-1993
Al Weber photographic portfolio 1992
Bein & Fushi, two short stories 1992-1993
"Insomnia," to co-edit with Ann Arensberg, n.d.
Alchemy broadside 1991
Miscellaneous ideas for projects
Paul Eluard, "Poems for Painters" Project - Anne Hyde Greet 1987
Mailing Lists
Miscellaneous Files
Ninja Press Horoscope - gift from Sukey Hughes
Biographies of Carolee Campbell
Southwest Museum, Braun Library Friends Group tour of Ninja Press Nov. 16, 1996
Artist's Statement, by Carolee Campbell
Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design 1993
Print Shop Calendars
Audiotape of "Women of the Composing Stick," re history of early female printers, aired on KCRW, Mar. 1992 [moved to a/v section]
Book Models
58 book models of different bookbinding styles and techniques (30 prepared for Book Structures classes at Otis/Parsons School of Art) 1984-1996
Accession 2 2000 December 15
The Architextures, by Nathaniel Tarn (1999)
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive for 1997 - 1999
Binding
Book design
Budget
Colophon
Correspondence
Hill, Lindsey
Miscellaneous
Tarn, Nathaniel, and Janet Rodney
Illustration - First Trials
Manuscript and corrections
Nathanial Tarn & Carolee, Janet Rodney & Carolee Photographs
Printing
Review, "Parenthesis" April, 2000
First text pages assignments & count
Text Paper
Typography
Organizations
Women of Letters
Small Projects
Tours of Ninja Press
Workshops Given by Carolee
Idyllwild School for Music & the Arts 1982-1984
Wellesley College Apr. 24, 1997
Archives at UCSB
Articles about Ninja Press 1977-1999
Book Dealer Catalogues
Ninja Press listings
Book Fairs
ACBA Book Arts Fair, Dawson's Book Shop - 2nd Annual May 15, 1999
Oak Knoll Book Fest IV Oct. 4-5, 1997
Oak Knoll book Fest V Sept. 26-27, 1998
Oak Knoll Book Fest VI Oct. 2-3, 1999
Competitions
Carl Hertzog Award 1999
Conferences
Guild of Book Workers 1999
ACBA Member's Exhibition Sept-Oct. 1998
"The Art of the Book," Mar. 1998
"Artists & Books," Mar. 17-Apr. 12, 1997
"Artist's Books & Prints," Nov. 7, 1998-Jan. 30, 1999
"Artists Collect," July 11-Sept. 13, 1998
Edith Lambert Gallery Mar. 1997
"El Arte de Los Libros de Artista"--- Oaxaca, Mexico Sept. 4 - Nov. 11, 1998
"25th Member's Exhibition, Hand Bookbinders of Calif.," Nov-Dec. 1997
"Magic Paper / Magic Book," May 15-Nov. 7, 1999
Miscellaneous
Pacific Center for Book Arts member's Exhibition May 11-June 28, 1997
"Socalled Books," Sept. 13-Nov. 19, 1999
"Westward Bound," June 5, 1998 and traveling two years
"Women Book Artists," Apr-May 1998
Northern Illinois University
Scripps College Sept. 20, 1997
University of Vermont Oct. 15, 1999
Manuscripts Submitted
Le Dernier Sacrament, by Arenita Campos
Correspondence
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive for 1997 - 1999
Miscellaneous - press and artists' announcements, ephemera, book-related articles 1997-1999
Barbarian Press 1996-1999
The Bieler Press 1997-1999
Granary Books 1997-1999
Hannon, Michael, and Nancy Dahl 1997-1999
Hill, Lindsay 1997-1999
The Janus Press 1996-1999
Koch, Peter 1998
McDermott, Louise 1997-1999
Merwin, W. S. and Paula 1997-1999
Paper & Book Intensive 1998
Price, Robin - incl. Robert Bringhurst manuscript copy 1997-1999
Rummonds, Gabriel - incl. 'First Impressions' newsletter from University of Alabama Institute for the Book Arts 1995-1999
Theodore Press 1997-1999
Turkey Press 1997-1999
Warwick Press 1996-1999
Correspondence
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive for 2000-2002
General/Miscellaneous Jan. 2000-Dec. 2002
Alpert, Michael (6 pieces) 2001
Barbarian Press (6 pieces) 2001
Desert Rose Press (18 pieces) 2001-2002
Granary Books / Steve Clay (14 pieces) 2000-2002
Hannon, Michael, and Nancy Dahl (13 pieces) 2000-2002
Janus Press / Claire van Vliet (19 pieces) 2000-2002
Koch, Peter (Printer), (5 pieces) 2000-2002
Lamott, Anne (2 pieces) 2000
Levine, Philip and Frances (9 pieces) 2002
McDermott, Louise McDermott (11 pieces) 2000-2002
Merwin, William and Paula (7 pieces) 2000-2002
Nagamatsu, Ernest (7 pieces) 2000-2002
Paradise Press / Susan King (10 pieces) 1999-2001
Price, Robin (54 pieces) 2000-2002
Rodney, Janet Rodney (Nathaniel Tarn's wife), (4 pieces) 2000-2001
Rummonds, Richard Gabriel (4 pieces) 2001
Simplemente Maria Press / Mary Heebner (5 pieces) 2001-2002
Tarn, Nathaniel (36 pieces) 2000-2002
Turkey Press / Harry and Sandra Reese (12 pieces) 2000-2002
Alpha/Subject
Articles Written for Publication
The Book Club of Washington Journal, v. 1, no. 2 (Winter, 2000)
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive
Correspondence, edited article, journal (9 pieces)
OP Magazine, Jan-Feb. 2003 - "An Argument For Lying Fallow."
Correspondence, contract, journal (7 pieces)
Book Fairs
Festival of the Book, Columbia College Center for Books & Paper Arts, Chicago July 7 & 8, 2000
Correspondence, printed fair material, brochures, articles, travel arrangements, receipts, fair preparations (25 pieces)
Oak Knoll Book Fest VII Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2000
Correspondence, printed fair material, brochures, articles, travel arrangements, receipts, fair preparations, photographs (33 pieces)
Oak Knoll Book Fest 2001
Correspondence, printed fair material, brochures, articles, travel arrangements, receipts, fair preparations, photographs (19 pieces)
Oak Knoll Book Fest 2002
Correspondence, registration, finances (4 pieces)
The Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah Oct. 6-7, 2000
The Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Alexandria, VA 2001
The Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Minneapolis, MN Sept. 18-22, 2002
The Parmenides Project, San Francisco 2001
The Sun Valley Writers' Conference Aug. 2000
The Sun Valley Writers' Conference Aug. 2001
The Sun Valley Writers' Conference Aug. 2002
"A Typographic Discourse: Women & the Book Arts in California, 1930-2000," Gleeson Library, University of Sans Francisco May 2-June 21, 2002
"The Artful Book," Pico Rivera Center for the Arts June 27-Aug. 12, 2000
"Artists & the Art of the Book," (Organized by Lafayette College - traveling) Mar. 1-Nov. 20, 2002
"The Hand Bookbinders of California 28th Annual Library Exhibition," Jan. 20-Mar. 16, 2001
L.A. Times Festival of Books (Clark Library) Apr. 29, 2001
"Ninja Press On Hiromi Papers: An Exhibition of Books & Broadsides," Bergamot Station, Santa Monica Sept. 1-Oct. 30, 2001
"Northwest Bookfest Book Arts Exhibition," Seattle, Juror's First Place Fine Press Award Oct. 21-Nov. 15, 2000
"Off The Shelf," MASS, MoCA June 13-Oct. 23, 2000
"So Called Books," San Francisco Center for the Book Sept. 17-Nov. 19, 1999
"Outwest II: So Called Books," New York Center for the Book Nov. 2-Dec. 28, 2001
The Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho 2001
"The World From Here," Armand Hammer Museum Oct. 2001-Jan. 2002
"The World From Here," The World From Here, Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles, edited by Cynthia Burlingham and Bruce Whiteman, Distributed by Getty Publications, 2001. 462 pp. Catalogue of exhibition in original plastic wrap.
Interviews
Kateri Alexander, 2000. (Women with unusual professions) Consent and release agreement (1 piece)
"The Book As An Art Form," William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA Aug. 23, 2000
"The Handmade Book: From Concept to Creation," Southwest Museum Feb. 19, 2000
Lafayette College Sept. 28, 2000
Song Dog Ranch Oct. 18-20, 2002
Manuscripts Submitted to Ninja
"News Falls Gently," Regina Harris Baiocchi 2000
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive
Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts 1988-1999
American Printing History Association 1996-1999, 2001-2002
The Book Club of California
California Center for the Book - incl. Strategic Plan 2002-2005
The Fine Press Book Association
The Guild Of Book Workers
Los Angeles Valley College Arts Council
Rounce & Coffin Club 1997-2002
The Typophiles 1997-2002
Women of Letters 2000-2002
Press Announcements, Invitations, Catalogues
Miscellaneous 2000-2002
Scripps College Press 2000-2002
The Yolla Bolly Press 2000-2002
Small Projects
"In the Shade of A Tree, In Africa", Ryszard Kapuscinski, 2002 - (Patron gift for the Sun Valley Writers' Conference & Ninja Patrons). Early paper choices, budget & receipts, title page & text page layouts, press lock-up schemes, printing notes, correspondence. (39 pieces)
"Just Now," W.S. Merwin broadside (Patron gift for the Sun Valley Writers' Conference & Ninja Press patrons), 2000 - Correspondence, early notes, poem, receipts, proofs, lay-outs, lock-up schemes, suminagashi description, miscellany (24 pieces)
Mother's memorial card, December, 2002 - Poems, lay-out, proof, finished card, paper samples, mailing list (12 pieces)
"Picnics & the Subject of Desire," Anita Wilkins (First edition), 1997 - Correspondence, manuscript, paper samples, printing scheme, proofs (19 pieces)
"The Return: Orihuela, 1965," Philip Levine Broadside, 2001 (Patron gift for the Sun Valley Writers' Conference & Ninja Press patrons) - Correspondence manuscript, budget, receipts, type style proofs, lay-outs, lock-up schemes, inking tests, paper use scheme (42 pieces)
"True Dharma," Michael Hannon Keepsake - Correspondence, proofs, receipts, plate proofs, lay-outs, lock-up scheme, paper dampening notes, final printed keepsake (33 pieces)
Trips
New England & Illinois, October, 1999 - Correspondence, accommodations, receipts, notes for book related visits, brochures, photographs, maps, addresses, miscellany (27 pieces)
Truepenny Books
Correspondence, Truepenny catalogue, consignment papers (10 pieces)
Uncompleted Projects
L.A. Public Library Broadside, 2000 - Correspondence, brochure, notes (3 pieces)
Al Weber Photo Portfolio, 1996-1999 - Correspondence, project notes, photograph copies, research notes (16 pieces)
University of Utah
Use of Ninja Press book for brochures, 2001-2002 - Correspondence, brochures (5 pieces)
Visitors to Press
The Guild of Book Workers (GBW), May 4, 2001 - Correspondence, keepsake samples, newsletter, photographs, CA Chapter newsletter, Hand Bookbinders of CA Journal, planning meeting notes (21 pieces)
Kumi Korf, 2001 - Artist announcements, gallery guide, book announcement, notes (6 pieces)
XXIV Short Love Poems, Bruce Whiteman 2000-2002
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive
Binding: Binding notes, first model, text paper samples (11 pieces)
Binding: Final step-by-step notes (3 pieces)
Binding: Binding model containing printing schedule and notes (2 pieces)
Budget & receipts (10 pieces)
Cover printing: Printing, ink tests & notes, lock-up scheme (6 pieces)
Early photograph ideas (before cyanotype), correspondence (5 pieces)
Correspondence (30 pieces) 1997-2002
Early typographic design ideas & type settings, notes (7 pieces)
Manuscript with printing schedule & ink notes, Whiteman's test signature (13 pieces)
Matrix 24 review, (1 piece) Winter 2004
Photographs---Cyanotype tests (91 pieces in plastic bags)
Photographs---Early tests with platinum, correspondence with Gordon Mark, notes (21 pieces)
Prospectus---text, printed proof, lock-up scheme, finished prospectus (7 pieces)
Text paper cutting scheme (2 pieces)
Text printing---paper ordering & cutting notes, printing proofs, lock-up scheme (91 pieces)
The Book of Silences, Robert Bringhurst 2000-2001
Binding enclosure---correspondence, shipping records, notes & lay-outs (20 pieces)
Binding book---notes, modifications, sewing jigs (7 pieces)
Budget & receipts (13 pieces)
Colophon signing & miscellaneous---photographs, Bringhurst bibliography, APHA Newsletter (66 pieces)
Correspondence between Ninja & Bringhurst (31 pieces) (1995-1999)
Correspondence between Ninja & Bringhurst (100 pieces) (2000-2002)
Correspondence with Gordon Mark on platinum printing (9 pieces)
Early design ideas (9 pieces)
Early typographic ideas (13 pieces)
Notes & Contents---correspondence between Ninja & Bringhurst, rewrites, trial proofs, research (38 pieces)
Platinum photographs by Gordon Mark---correspondence, photographs, shipping receipts (21 pieces)
Printing schedule & press lock-up schemes (54 pieces)
Prospectus---design, text rewrites, models, printing proofs, correspondence (33 pieces)
Research on included Zen Buddhist monks (20 pieces)
Text & cover paper calculations (7 pieces)
Text---first model (15 pieces)
Text---first poem setting (2 pieces)
Titling tests (8 pieces)
Typography & ink colors---final paper dampening procedures (10 pieces)
Text---early color decoration ideas & page size (12 pieces in plastic)
Text---first full sewn model (4 pieces in plastic)
Enclosure---first model (5 pieces in plastic)
Binding---first full model (1 piece in plastic)
Binding---second full model with enclosure model & notes (8 pieces in plastic)
Binding---third full model with enclosure & notes (4 pieces in plastic)
Binding---cover, first trial (1 piece in plastic)
Binding---cover, second folding trial (1 piece in plastic)
Photographs---early platinum tests (8 pieces in plastic)
Correspondence
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive
General/Miscellaneous Jan. 2003-Dec. 2005
Andrews, Michael (27 pieces) 2005
Barbarian Press - Crispin and Jan Elstead (24 pieces) 2003-2005
Bieler Press - Gerald Lange (65 pieces) 2003-2005
Botnick, Ken (18 pieces) 2005
Bringhurst, Robert (51 pieces) 2002-2005
Brock, David (24 pieces) 2003-2005
The British Library, Carole Holden 2003-2004
Detailed Listings of the Ninja Press Archive
Brown, P. Scott - Editor, OP Magazine 2003-2004
Butler, Eugenia (23 pieces) 2002-2004
C&C Press - Matt Cohen and Sher Zabaszkiewicz (41 pieces) 2005
Catlin, Gail (16 pieces) 2004
Chu, Karen Skove - correspondence, photographs and ephemera (28 pieces) 2000, 2004-2005
Copper Canyon Press - Sam Hamill - correspondence, essay and ephemera (7 pieces) 1985, 2004
Flanagan, Daniel - correspondence and photographs (6 pieces) 2005
Foolscap Press - Lawrence Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold (15 pieces) 2003-2005
Gampel, Alan (42 pieces) 2003-2005
Golden Legend Bookshop - Gordon Hollis - correspondence and book fair catalogue (20 pieces) 2004-2005
Granary Books - Steve Clay - correspondence and ephemera (9 pieces) 2003-2005
Halverson, Karen - correspondence, aricles, exhibition announcements 2001-2005
Hannon, Michael, and Nancy Dahl (6 pieces) 2003-2005
Hermetic Press - Philip Gallo (24 pieces) 2003-2005
Hoffman, Nancy - correspondence and cd [removed to a/v section], (19 pieces, 1 cd) 2004-2005
Imprenta Glorias - Gloria Stuart - correspondence, photographs and article (6 pieces) 2000-2005
Indulgence Press - Wilbur (Chip) Schilling - correspondence and ephemera (13 pieces) 2005
Juarez, Miguel - University of Arizona (11 pieces) 2003, 2005
Koch, Peter - Peter Koch Printers - correspondence and ephemera (47 pieces) 2003-2005
Lamotte, Anne (9 pieces) 2004
Levine, Philip and Frances - correspondence and article (6 pieces) 2003-2005
Lorson's Books & Prints - James Lorson - correspondence, photographs and ephemera (8 pieces) 2005
McDermott, Louise (15 pieces) 2003-2006
Meyer, Thomas (8 pieces) 2004
Midnight Paper Sales - Gaylord Schanilec (9 pieces) 2005
Montoya, José (2 pieces) 2004
Nagamatsu, Ernest - correspondence and magazine (14 pieces) 2003-2004
Pascal, Barbara (20 pieces) 2004-2005
The Press on Scroll Road - Bob Baris (7 pieces) 2004-2005
Price, Robin - Printer-Publisher
Correspondence and newsletter (76 pieces) 2003
(73 pieces) 2004
Correspondence and ephemera (93 pieces) 2005
Rehak, Theo - The Dale Guild Type Foundry (11 pieces) 2003
Rodney, Janet - The Weaselsleeves Press
Correspondence and artwork (20 pieces) 2003-2005
Rodney, Janet - The Weaselsleeves Press - correspondence, magazine and exhibition announcement (oversize envelope on top of files), (3 pieces) 2005
Rummunds, Richard Gabriel - correspondence and ephemera (30 pieces) 2003-2005
Scripps College Press - Kitty Maryatt - announcements (11 pieces) 2003-2005
Shanty Bay Press - Walter Bashinski and Janis Butler - correspondence, photographs, announcements, and ephemera (8 pieces) 2002
Shulamis Press - Sue Abbe Kaplan - correspondence and ephemera (5 pieces) 2004
Simplemente maria Press - Mary Heebner - correspondence, announcements, and ephemera (8 pieces) 2003-2005
Tarn, Nathaniel - correspondence and article (73 pieces) 2003-2005
Theodore Press - Michael Alpert (2 pieces) 2004
Tideline Press - Leonard Seastone (7 pieces) 2005
Turkey Press - Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese - correspondence, photographs, announcements, and ephemera (15 pieces) 2003-2005
Valzania, Brian - PABA Gallery (32 pieces) 2003-2005
Vamp and Tramp, Booksellers - Bill and Vicky Stewart (54 pieces) 2003-2005
Vessels, Stephen - correspondence, artwork, and chapbook (14 pieces) 2003-2004
Warwick Press - Carol Blinn - correspondence and ephemera (9 pieces) 2002-2005
Weber, Al (7 pieces) 2003-2005
Whiteman, Bruce (61 pieces) 2002-2005
Witherell, Beth (23 pieces) 2004-2005
Young, Doyald (14 pieces) 2003
Miscellaneous presses, correspondence, announcements, ephemera (41 pieces) 2002-2005
Herzog Award
Correspondence, and announcements (8 pieces) 2003
Exhibition Files
Open Signatures - Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho, Mar. 7-May 9, 2003 - on-line catalogue and correspondence (26 pieces)
Early to Modern: New Acquisitions in Special Collections - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Mar. 28-July 2003 - announcements and correspondence (5 pieces)
National Book Arts Show - Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, July 17-Aug. 27, 2003 - announcements and correspondence (19 pieces)
Love and/or Terror - University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Aug. 3-Sept. 21, 2003 - announcements, correspondence, and Ninja Press exhibition label (20 pieces)
Is It Art Yet? - John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA, Sept. 30, 2002-Jan. 31, 2003 - correspondence, loan agreement, announcement (8 pieces)
In Flight - Guild of Book Workers Traveling Triennial Exhibition, Oct. 23, 2003-July 17, 2005 - announcements, entry forms, correspondence, journal announcements, and exhibition catalogue (35 pieces)
Book Works 2003 - Pacific Center for the Book Arts Biennial Members' Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, CA, Nov. 1, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004 - entry announcement and forms, correspondence, and exhibition catalogue (8 pieces)
Hand Bookbinders of California 31st Annual Members' Exhibition - Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4-Dec. 29, 2003 - entry forms, correspondence, and announcement (13 pieces)
Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing - New York Public Library, Nov. 7, 2003-May 28, 2004 - press releases, exhibition review, correspondence, and catalogue (12 pieces)
Ninja Press at Twenty 1984-2004: A Retrospective Exhibition of Books, Broadsides, and Ephemera - UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA July 1-Sept. 24, 2004
Letterpress printed announcement: design, lay-outs, ink samples, text, paper samples, paper cutting scheme, correspondence, mailing list, and completed announcement (68 pieces)
Announcements in journals, newsletters, and on-line (18 pieces)
Correspondence (48 pieces)
Reception: correspondence, RSVP list, catering plans, lecture notes, and photograph (27 pieces and 43 photographs)
Tours: correspondence and photographs (41 pieces and 7 photographs)
Metaphorical Books - Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Aug. 15-Sept. 26, 2004 - exhibition notes and contract, correspondence, journal announcement, printed announcement, and photographs (50 pieces and 7 photographs)
Word & Image: Poetry Broadsides by Eight Contemporary Small Presses - Currier Center for the Arts at The Putney School, Vermont, Oct. 26-Dec. 16, 2004 - correspondence, exhibition details and shipping, on-line exhibition photographs, and Ninja Press wall label (34 pieces)
Ninja Press at Twenty 1984-2004: A Retrospective Exhibition of Books, Broadsides, and Ephemera
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, Oct. 14-Dec. 10, 2004 - correspondence, on-line exhibition announcements, Ninja Press at Twenty information sheet, early design for letterpress printed announcement, and finished letterpress announcement on Velky Losiny handmade paper printed at Ninja Press (56 pieces)
Special Collections Department, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan. 10-Mar. 26, 2005 - correspondence, exhibition plan notes, announcement mailing lists, and journal and newsletter announcements (138 pieces)
University of Arizona Library, Department of Special Collections Gallery, Tucson, Apr. 22-June 3, 2005 - correspondence, C.C. biography, emailed digital photographs of exhibition and reception talk, and flyers (114 pieces)
University of Texas Health Science Center Rare Books Library, Oct. 19, 2005-May 1, 2006 - correspondence, permissions for printing W. S. Merwin broadside, digital photographs of exhibition space, journal announcements, hand-outs, flyers 8 x 10 photographs of exhibition opening, and online exhibition announcement (184 pieces and 9 photographs)
Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book Format [not accepted] - traveling exhibition, Apr. 11, 2004-Fall 2005 (13 pieces)
C.C. juried: 5th Biennial Artists' Books Juried Exhibition - Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, Jan. 8-Feb. 15, 2005 - correspondence, entry flyer, journal and newsletter announcements, and loan agreement (30 pieces)
Classes and Workshops C.C. Taught
Learning Tree University, Chatsworth, CA, Nov. 10-Dec. 1, 2001 & Jan. 19-Feb. 9, 2002 - models of book structures taught, class notes and hand-outs, correspondence, school catalogues, teaching contract, and student information (43 pieces)
Rendezvous at Song Dog Ranch for photographers, between Bakersfield and Ojai, CA (remote desert location), Oct. 17-19, 2003 - correspondence, journal and newsletter announcements, notes, hand-outs, and sewing models (31 pieces)
Cerritos Library, CA - [co-taught with Eugenia Butler] The Cerritos Book of Lies, a collaborative artists' book made by members of the community, Apr. 9 and Oct. 16, 2005 - correspondence, flyer, and box design notes (27 pieces)
Abandoned Projects
Irena Martens, 1995 - 3 etchings, 8 slides, announcement, and correspondence (13 pieces)
Hayden Carruth, 1998-1999 - correspondence and manuscripts (64 pieces)
Emily Dickinson, with Nancy Leavitt, 2003 - one book: Master Letters of E.D. - poems, lay-out schemes, samples, handmade papers, and correspondence (36 pieces)
Patrick Hunt Palindromes, 2005 - manuscript and correspondence (11 pieces)
Book Fairs
Oak Knoll Book Fest, New Castle, DE, Oct. 3-5, 2003 - C.C. on panel - correspondence, press catalogues, prospectuses, and ephemera (45 pieces)
Oak Knoll Book Fest, New Castle, DE, Oct. 2-3, 2004 (24 pieces)
Oak Knoll Book Fest, New Castle, DE, Oct. 1-2, 2005 - fair information papers, catalogues, and letterpress printed ephemera (26 pieces)
Articles and Notices about Ninja Press 2000-2005
Correspondence and journals (28 pieces)
Books and Publications including Ninja Press 2003-2004
Correspondence (19 pieces)
Essays and Articles by C.C.
Matrix 25, 2004-2005 - correspondence, manuscript with edited versions, photo lay-outs, and letterpress printed final essay (157 pieces)
Matrix 25 - design, production notes, press lock-up schemes, and correspondence for tipped-in printed piece accompanying essay, 2005 (13 pieces)
Miscellaneous, 2003-2004 (12 pieces)
Conferences
Sun Valley Writers' Conference, Idaho, Aug. 22-25, 2003 - C.C. gave presentation with Hector Elizondo - registration packet, program notes, and correspondence (28 pieces)
Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Denver, CO, Oct. 22-26, 2003 - C.C, gave presentation - registration packet, roster, hand-outs, photographs, and schedule (32 pieces)
Sun Valley Writers' Conference, Idaho, Aug. 19-23, 2004 - C.C. gave presentation with Hector Elizondo - correspondence, presentation script, programs, travel plans, and registration packet (46 pieces)
American Printing History Association Annual Conference, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2004 - registration packet, hand-outs, roster, etching, and letterpress printed ephemera (16 pieces)
Fire in the Library, UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA Nov. 13, 2004 - correspondence, event booklet, and preparation notes (20 pieces)
Artists' Book Conference, held at four sites in Los Angeles, CA, May 21-24, 2005 - C.C. on panel - correspondence, conference booklet, and hand-outs (42 pieces)
The Artists' Book Conference (book fair and exhibition), Wellesley College, MA, June 15-18, 2005 - C.C. on panel - correspondence, registration packet, hand-outs, on-line information, and Resonance and Response exhibition catalogue (76 pieces)
Sun Valley Writers' Conference, Idaho, Aug. 18-22, 2005 - correspondence, registration packet, hand-outs, schedule, program notes, book by Betsy Pearson, A Sun Valley Journal, and an original watercolor (35 pieces)
Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence Seminar, Portland, OR, Oct. 26-30, 2005 - registration packet, hand-outs, and schedule (21 pieces)
American Printing Association Annual Conference, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Sept. 22-23, 2005 - registration packet, attendance roster, hand-outs, correspondence, and letterpress printed ephemera (30 pieces)
Lectures Given
With Beth Witherell, Emerson & Thoreau / Spirit & Matter, Annual Thoreau Society Gathering, Concord, MA, July 10, 2003 (all pieces are itemized and store in over-size Box 30)
With book exhibition, Books, Soap Opera & River Rafting, Colophon Club, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 9, 2003 - correspondence, invitation and design, photographs, and notes for presentation (32 pieces)
With book exhibition, My Life in Books, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA, Jan. 15, 2004 - correspondence and announcements (46 pieces)
With book exhibition, untitled, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, Feb. 12, 2004 – correspondence and published announcements (21 pieces)
With book exhibition with The Women of Letters, untitled, for the Friends of the Library of Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, Apr. 14, 2004 - correspondence, hand-out, and list of books shown (17 pieces)
College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Commencement Address, June 5, 2005 - correspondence, commencement address notes and final address, ceremony program, and photographs (61 pieces)
Lecture Proposal
Book Arts Guild, Seattle, WA, 2004 - correspondence (13 pieces)
Lecture Cancelled
New England College, Henniker, NH, June 23, 2005 - correspondence and brochures (28 pieces)
Libraries
Results of use of Ninja Press archive, 1998 (4 pieces, 54 pp.)
Braun Research Library of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Friends of the Library papers, notes, newsletters, correspondence, presentation by C.C., photographs of visit to Ninja Press, calendars (53 pieces) 1995-1997
Similar items, plus awards and commendations for C.C. (73 pieces) 1998-1999
Similar items to earlier years (75 pieces) 2000-2005
UCLA Art Library and University Research Library, 2003-2005 - correspondence, invitations, auction materials, calendars, and newsletters (17 pieces)
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2000-2005 - correspondence, newsletters, events, hand-outs, and letterpress printed ephemera (18 pieces)
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 2000-2004 - incl. exhibition catalogue, hand-outs, and research information instructions (20 pieces)
University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections, Iowa City, 2003 - incl. newsletter, correspondence, notes, and price lists for standing order patronage (13 pieces)
Museums
International Printing Museum, Carson, CA, 2004-2005 - flyers, correspondence, and miscellany (17 pieces)
Organizations
American Printing History Association, 2003-2005 - correspondence, newsletters, hand-outs, and flyers (51 pieces)
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA, 2001-2005 - correspondence and articles (8 pieces)
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, 2003 (3 pieces)
Codex Foundation, Berkeley, CA, 2005 - correspondence, foundation papers, and conference information papers (68 pieces)
Fine Press Book Association, 2004-2005 - correspondence, flyers, and newsletters (15 pieces)
Guild of Book Workers, 2003-2005 - correspondence and journals (22 pieces)
Guild of Book Workers, California Chapter, 2004-2005 - correspondence, newsletters, and letterpress printed ephemera (45 pieces)
Hand Bookbinders of California, 2003-2005 - correspondence, journals, and Ninja Press exhibition announcements (15 pieces)
Los Angeles Book Arts Center, 2002-2005 - correspondence, articles, flyers, and Ninja Press exhibition announcements (35 pieces)
San Diego Book Arts, 2005 - newsletters (7 pieces)
Thoreau Society, Concord, MA, 2003-2004 - correspondence and membership directory (6 pieces)
Typophiles, New York City, 2003-2005 - newsletters, announcements, and ephemera (29 pieces)
Women of Letters, Los Angeles, CA, 2003 - correspondence, photographs, and ephemera (46 pieces)
Women of Letters, Los Angeles, CA, 2004 - correspondence, lecture and-outs and notes, and ephemera (150 pieces)
Women of Letters, Los Angeles, CA, 2005 - correspondence, photographs, and ephemera (159 pieces)
Universities
University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, 2005 - incl. correspondence and newsletters (17 pieces)
Small Projects
Robert Dillon Platinum Book Project (helping him design and bind), 2001-2002 - correspondence, platinum printing test, party favor, and artwork (metal rat) by Dillon (10 pieces)
Joanne Page's Goodbye Book from her colleagues in Los Angeles, 2003 - C.C.'s contribution was the printed title page using wood type she gave C.C. (8 pieces)
Ninja Press at 20, 1984-2004 Check List, 2004 - original text with 4 earlier versions to final printed text, 5 sets of multiple pages, correspondence, paper samples, and completed sewn check list (47 pieces)
On the Ice, by Peter Matthiessen, printed for The Sun Valley Writers' Conference and the standing order patrons of Ninja Press, 2004 - correspondence, paper samples, lay-outs, early design ideas, printing scheme, lock-up schemes, and binding model (43 pieces)
"To the Book," by W. S. Merwin, broadside for Verse into Type: The Apha Poetry Portfolio, printed for the American Printing History Association; a second edition was printed, numbered, and signed by the poet for Ninja Press, 2003 - correspondence, design ideas, printing proofs, press lock-up schemes, poem printed (page of the New Yorker magazine), and completed broadside (15 pieces)
Collaborative Projects
The Book of Lies, Volume III
Early correspondence, discussion notes and research materials, and finished prospectus (32 pieces) 2002-2004
(200 pieces), [Note: all material relating to printing and binding The Book of Lies, Volume III is in oversize Box 30] 2003-2005
The Box Collaboration
Correspondence (203 pieces) 2004
Correspondence (79 pieces) 2005
Outline and details of project booklet, lay-outs, paper samples, correspondence, and notes for C.C.'s contribution to the project (40 pieces)
3-ring binder with commentary from the 12 collaborators
Completed box in bubble wrap; enclosed in box is work from the 12 collaborators, excepting one that does not fit [Note: to understand this project, read the booklet outlining the details, in folder 10. One can see difficulty everyone had understanding the rules from the volume of correspondence it created]
Ephemera
Boxed pinwheel, designed and executed by bookbinder Allwyn O'Mara in 1997 and given as a gift to C.C. and Hector Elizondo - the wooden and paper pinwheel consists of 8 photographs: 4 of Ward Ritchie (Laguna Verde Imprenta press) inking the form on his press, and 4 photos of his front porch in Laguna Beach, CA
ACBA Cards
Bundle of alphabetized cards of the membership of the Alliance Contemporary Book Arts (see Box 31 for ACBA materials)
The Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts, Archive 1987-2000
Calendars
Correspondence
Back issue requests and membership inquiries 1993-1997
Membership renewals
New memberships 1992-1995
1988-1997
Journal suspension 1997-1999
New memberships 1996-1999
Events
Book Arts Fair, Dawson's Book Shop
Second Annual Book Arts Fair, Dawson's Book Shop
Miscellaneous
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library tour
Inge Brueggeman lecture
J. Ben Lieberman Lecture, Robert Bringhurst lecturer
Members exhibition, Artworks Gallery
"A Southern California Decade" traveling exhibition
Flyers and back issue lists
Membership mailing lists 1988-1997
Minutes of meetings 1998-1999
Miscellaneous
Receipts 1988-1993
Invoices paid 1989-1999
Receipts 1994-1998
Treasurer's reports
Workshops 1992-1999
ACBA archives from Robin Price 1992-1995
Exhibitions - "A Southern California Decade" hand calligraphed poster by Kitty Maryatt
Bundle of alphabetized 3x5 cards of the membership, with dues payments from March 1992 until 2000 kept by secretary/treasurer C.C. [cards stored in Box 29]
Articles and biographies about: 1960-1978, including newspaper articles about C.C. and Hector Elizondo, various bio sheet, and correspondence (12 pieces)
Correspondence and catalogue: re first work in platinum printing, [1979?] (2 pieces)
Grump
Correspondence: David Vestal (C.C.'s photography mentor), 1973-2006, including 2 issues of Grump (issues 88 and 89, used as correspondence references) (60 pieces)
Grump, an occasional newsletter by David Vestal, issues 9-54 (incomplete run), 1989-1997 (42 newsletters)
Grump, issues 55-100 (incomplete run), #100 being the final issue, published 1997-2005 (40 newsletters)
Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1976-1984 (6 pieces)
Lummis, Charles F.
Photographic essay co-written with Patrick T. Houlihan (Director, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles), "Lummis as a Photographer," for Charles F. Lummis: The Centennial Exhibition, edited by Daniela P. Moneta, Southwest Museum, 1985 - C.C.'s research papers for essay, 1984-1985 (39 pieces)
Hard cover copy of Charles F. Lummis: The Centennial Exhibition
Charles F. Lummis Centennial Exhibition Symposium, Mar. 2-3, 1985 - including correspondence and notes re C.C.'s cyanotype printing demonstration using Lummis' original glass plate negatives from the Southwest Museum collection, announcements, newsletters, handouts, and symposium registration packet (22 pieces)
Photographic Exhibitions
"Walk in the Wild," The National Art Museum of Sport, New York City, Sept. 14-Oct. 29, 1976, including announcements, invitations, newsletters, and reviews (C.C. on Photographic Committee for the New York City Group of the Sierra Club) (13 pieces)
Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles - 3 group exhibitions and 1 solo exhibition, "Waiting Rooms" 1982-1983, including correspondence, announcements, newspaper listings, biographies, and press releases (35 pieces)
Soho Photo Foundation, New York City - 1 solo exhibition and 3 group exhibitions, 1977-1978, including correspondence, announcements, exhibition lay-out schemes, meeting notes, agreements, newspaper listings, and Soho Camera 3, Soho Foundation, Publishers, 1978 - a book of photographs, including 4 photographs by C.C. (14 pieces)
Miscellaneous (listed by date) –exhibition contents are in separate packets and include correspondence, announcements, newspaper and newsletter listings and articles, contracts, bios, etc) (85 pieces in all)
1 - "Christmas Group Show" – The Underground Gallery, NYC Dec. 2-21, 1969
2 - "Images West" - Goddard-Riverside Community Center, NYC Apr. 18-May 18, 1976
3 - "Westhampton Beach Outdoor Art Show" - Westhampton, NY Aug. 6-8, 1976
4 - "Carolee Campbell Photographs" - Crossroads Gallery, NYC Sept. 1-30, 1967
5 - "Eleventh Annual Outdoor Art Show" - Gallery North, Setauket, NY July 17-[?], 1977
6 - Untitled - Canyon Gallery Two Dec. 17, 1979
7 - "Connecticut Landscapes by Carolee Campbell" - Barbara Hindshaw Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA Oct. 4-24, 1981
8 - Artweek - newspaper listing above exhibition Oct. 10, 1981
9 - "Carolee Campbell Photographs" - Scoville Library, Salisbury, CT Nov-Dec. 1981
10 - "Evidence of Light" - Santa Ana College Art Gallery, CA Oct. 27-Nov. 18, 1983
11 - "Handmade Photographic Books" - Texas Woman's University Fine Arts Gallery, Denton TX Nov. 8-Dec. 15, 1983
12 - "Southern California Juried Photography Exhibition" - 2 sites Nov. 17-Dec. 23, 1983
13 - "California Bookworks" - (C.C.'s first book exhibition), Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Jan. 3-Feb. 11, 1984
14 - "Two Photographers Removed" - The Women's Center Art Gallery, UCSB Mar. 30-Apr. 24, 1987
15 - 4 miscellaneous shows, no dates
Guest Sign-in Books for 4 Exhibitions
1 - "Connecticut Landscapes by Carolee Campbell" - Barbara Hindshaw Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA Oct. 4-24, 1981
2 - "Waiting Rooms" - Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles Apr. 28-May 30, 1982
3 - "Alternate Processes" - Cameravision Gallery, Los Angeles Oct. 7-29, 1983
4 - "Two Photographers Removed" - The Women's Center Art Gallery, UCSB Mar. 30-Apr. 24, 1987
Libraries - Photo, Friends of the Los Angeles Public Library (C.C. on Board of Directors), 1991-1997 - including correspondence, newsletters, flyers, meeting notes, Board of Directors mailing lists, and articles about (28 pieces)
Correspondence and original photographs of actor/writer Malachy McCourt, shot by C.C. for theatre head shot and biography late 1970s (11 pieces)
Photography publications with photographs by C.C. (7 pieces in all)
1 - Wisdom's Child newspaper, June 10, 1974 - correspondence and newspaper
2 - After Dark: The National Magazine of Entertainment Nov. 1976
3 - Sierra: The Sierra Club Bulletin, July/Aug. 1982 - C.C.'s photo on cover
4 - Photospiva 83 - correspondence and catalogue
Photography publications and posters with photographs by C.C. (4 pieces in all)
1 - Poster - photograph of artist Turi Simeti with painting for exhibition at Galleria Cadario in Rome, 1968 - photo taken in NYC in 1967
2 - Poster with by-line - 10 photographs of paintings by Turi Simeti for exhibition at Galerie Latzer Kreuzlingen, [Germany?], 1969 - photos taken in NYC in 1967
3 - Exhibition announcement with photograph by C.C. for J. Henry Gallery, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands - photo taken in NYC in 1967
4 - Domus, The Magazine of Architecture, Interiors, and Art, published in Rome, Mar. 1968 - p. 43, reproduction of poster of Turi Simeti exhibition at Galleria Cadario in Rome (see #1)
Photography publications with photographs by C.C.
Who Needs Parks? Baruch Katz, editor - an exhibition and book of photographs by 36 photographers dedicated to the protection and preservation of Riverside Park, NYC, 1975 - includes correspondence and commendations, reviews, articles, announcements, hand-outs, posters, and completed book (8 pieces)
Women Photograph Men, Dannielle B. Hayes, editor, with introduction by Molly Haskell (William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, (1977) - includes correspondence, permissions, announcements, newsletters with announcements, and completed book (26 pieces)
Photography workshops given by C.C.
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, "Making One-of-a-Kind Handmade Books," July 17, 21, and 24, 1984 - includes flyer, workshop notes, hand-outs, class description, participants, newsletter, and contract (16 pieces)
The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, "Working in the Nineteenth Century Photographic Techniques," Feb. 11, 25, and Mar. 3, 1984 - includes correspondence, museum calendar, contract, class notes and list of equipment, and lesson plans (14 pieces)
Collaborative Projects: The Book of Lies, Volume III, 2002-2004
Bag #1 - design, press lock-up schemes, and shipping plans (7 pieces)
Bag #2 - book: text lay-outs, Eugenia Butler's essay versions, text for biographies (1st-5th edits and 2 early versions), final text for typesetting, typographic proofs, press lock-up schemes, first model, paper cutting scheme, and correspondence between C.C. and Eugenia Butler (72 pieces)
Bag #3 - folios for each art piece: press lock-up scheme for labels, cutting and gluing scheme with instructions, folio trials, paper plans, cutting and prices, complete printed sheets of artists' names on handmade Japanese paper (kakishibu), 1 small bag of multiple name trial cutting, and correspondence (27 pieces)
Oversize design and schemes
Oversize misc
Flat Small Projects - "The Sound of One," Charlotte Watts 1989
Ninja Press at 20 [2004-2005]
Workshops - Cerritos Library, "Cerritos Book of Lies," Workshop Apr. 9, 2005
White tube, poster for the Cerritos Library "Cerritos Book of Lies workshop (1 piece)
Emerson & Thoreau / Spirit & Matter 2002-2003
Bag #1 - journals and newsletters announcing book (3 pieces)
Bag #2 - versions of text for colophone (1 piece)
Bag #3 - budget (2 pieces)
#4 (not bagged) - registration packet for 2003 Thoreau Society Gathering with conference schedule, art work (gift), trip plans and notes, correspondence, 15 photographs, hand-outs, notes for presentation, hand-outs for registration packet for C.C., and Beth Witherell's presentation (70 pieces)
Bag #5 - models and tests for cover with printed title labels, and sewing jig (11 pieces)
Bag #6 - letter and enclosures sent with book to standing order patrons (6 pieces)
Bag #7 - text used for typesetting (11 pieces)
Bag #8 - printing schedule and notes (5 pieces)
Bag #9 - early binding trials with 1 sewn model with handmade paper (3 pieces)
Bag #10 - page lay-outs and test printings on handmade paper (13 pieces)
Bag #11 - complete model #1 with binding notes (8 pieces)
Bag #12 - complete model #2 with paper-cutting notes (6 pieces)
Bag #13 - complete model #3 with binding notes (7 pieces)
Bag #14 - complete model #4 with binding notes (3 pieces)
Bag #15 - correspondence between C.C. and Beth Witherell from Dec. 10, 2002 to July 6, 2003 (77 pieces)
Bag #16 - research: the definitive edition of Emerson's Nature from Beth, Oct. 11, 2002 (7 pieces)
Bag #17 - early design ideas (2 pieces)
Bag #18 - text paper and announcement paper cutting schemes with amount needed (6 pieces)
Bag # 19 - press lock-up schemes (7 pieces)
Bag #20 - typographic test settings and correspondence (11 pieces)
Bag #21 - printing proofs with notes and corrections (52 pieces)
Bag #22 - final binding instructions (2 pieces)
Architextures oversized
Architextures, by Nathaniel Tarns - incl. proof for zinc plate for debossing cover; proofs, trials, tests and materials for book box, binding models
Binding Models by Daniel Kim, metal tests
Binding models
Ninja Press 2006-2009
Bag # 1 - The Real World of Manuel Córdova, by W.S. Merwin, 1995 - not previously archived; used for talks and demonstrations - printing proofs, corrections, notes for cutting and folding text pages, jig used to fold all text sheets, cover models, printed labels for the enclosure, jig used for folding enclosure, and lay-out for announcement cover (10 pieces)
Bag #2 - Collaborative Projects: The Book of Lies, Volume III, 2003-2004 (additional materials are in Box #3 of this oversize container - see listing above) - brass mounted inside front lid of box (C.C.'s contribution to the collaboration) - typographic design and early trials, press packing for printing on brass with tympan paper, brass patinating instructions, brass-over-boards instructions, brass orders, onyx board cutting board samples, finished brass on board, and correspondence (25 pieces)
Bag #3 - Small Projects: Thomas Cahill quote, broadside for The Sun Valley Writers' Conference and standing order patrons of Ninja Press, 2003 - (grouped in separate bags): correspondence (18 pieces), cuneiform research (19 pieces), paper plans (5 pieces), typographic tests, proofs and lay-outs (16 pieces), and press lock-up scheme (1 piece)
Bag #4 - Small Projects: "Flying the Body" by Nathaniel Tarn, broadside 2003 - correspondence, design and lay-out, press proofs, paper sample, early design, press lock-up scheme, and text for colophon (26 pieces)
Bag #5 - Exhibitions: Ninja Press at Twenty 1984-2004, 2005 - Ninja Press retrospective exhibition at UCSB (additional materials in Box 26, Folder 20) - design, lay-out, typography for letterpress printed envelopes (23 pieces)
Bag #6 - Exhibitions: Ninja Press at Twenty 1984-2004, 2005 - Ninja Press retrospective exhibition at the University of Arizona, 2005 (additional materials in Box 26, Folder 21) - design and final broadside announcement (4 pieces)
Bag #7 - Small Projects: "Tradition" by Thomas Cahill - broadside for The Sun Valley Writers' Conference and the standing order patrons of Ninja Press, 2005 - correspondence (37 pieces), C.C. artist statement (2 pieces), budget (5 pieces), press lock-up schemes (5 pieces), early typographic design ideas (6 pieces), typographic proofs (10 pieces), and text for typesetting (2 pieces)
Bag #8 - Small Projects: "To the Surgeon Kevin Lin," by W. S. Merwin, broadside for the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 2005 (additional materials in Box 26, Folder 22) - copy of poem used, lay-out and printed proof, press lock-up schemes, and colophon text (6 pieces)
Burn Down the Zendo, by Michael Hannon 2004-2005
Bag #1 - manuscript and correspondence (12 pieces)
Bag #2 - binding models with instructions, sewing tests, correspondence, and notes for acrylic slipcase (18 pieces)
Bag #3 - printing scheme, schedule, lay-outs, and notes (6 pieces)
Bag #4 - Kanji (calligraphy) for cover: correspondence between C.C. and David Brock, calligraphy tests, and models (70 pieces)
Bag #5 - Enso (empty circle) research (10 pieces)
Bag #6 - Christmas card with Jack Vartoogian design and photograph with poem taken from Burn Down the Zendo
Bag #7 - cover paper (Egyptian tow flax handmade at Cave Paper, Minneapolis, MN): correspondence, cutting scheme, and ordering plan (10 pieces)
Bag #8 - press lock-up schemes, colophon text, typeface and ink notations (34 pieces)
Bag #9 - announcement: paper cutting scheme, press lock-up scheme, photographs for announcement, and finished announcement (5 pieces)
Bag #10 - illustrations: Enso (empty circle) extras (22 pieces)
Bag #11 - illustrations: finished artwork for negatives for photopolymer plates (5 pieces)
Bag #12 - encapsulate photo page: 4 photographs of C.C. and Michael Hannon during colophon signing at Harry and Sandra Reese's Turkey Press July 17, 2004
Bag #13 - addressed envelope: 7 photographs taken by Nancy Dahl with letter
Pulled oversized materials