Finding Aid to the Plantin Press Papers, 1931 -1986
Source of Acquisition/Provenance
- ARTISTS & TYPOGRAPHERS (3 boxes)
- BUSINESS (6 boxes)
- TYPOPHILES (3 boxes)
- TYPE FOUNDRIES, PAPER (2 boxes)
- SUPPLIERS (3 boxes)
- OTHER PRINTERS (2 boxes)
- MISCELLANEOUS (3 boxes)
- FINANCIAL RECORDS (11 boxes)
SERIES: ARTISTS AND TYPOGRAPHERS
Valenti Angelo
Will Bradley - Photograph with T. M. Cleland
The Grolier Club - Plantin Press Exhibition (I) - slide of exhibit, list of books exhibited
The Grolier Club - Plantin Press Exhibition (II) - Correspondence
Photos of Plantin Press Exhibition - 3
Exhibitions: Correspondence - N.Y.P.L., Grolier, AIGA
Fritz Eichenberg: signed greeting cards illustrated by Eichenberg, Fritz Eichenberg: Illustrator and Printmaker
Ernest Freed: 6 examples of illustration work
Vance Gerry: correspondence, manuscript of Kronfeld book
Gene Holtan (I): correspondence with sketches (14), sketches for "Interesting Trip to Death Valley"
Gene Holtan (II): correspondence with sketches (10),"A Picture Picker's Picture Abecedary"
Reynolds Stone: The James Wardrop Collection of Prints and Negatives
August Hermes: Samurai and Other Drawings
Marion Kronfeld Campbell: examples of artwork (10)
Bruce Rogers
Mary Kuper: correspondence
Larry and Debbie Cooper: correspondence, photograph
Stan Washburn: illustrations for "Ingram's Journal of the Brigantine Hope" (15)
William Gropper Photographs (3)
Dr. Robert Leslie - The Typophiles
Note
- Frederick W. Goudy Distinguished Lecture in Typography for 1973
- Kelmscott
- 100 Sample Books
- Writing the History of American Printing by Rollo G. Silver
Dr. Robert Leslie - Correspondence 1965 - 1985
The Clipper Days Friends: Correspondence (19) - Helen Dreiser, Mary Kronfeld, Philip O. & Mary Jane Keeney
The Clipper Days Friends: Guy Endore - 4 articles
The Clipper Days Friends: John Sanford - correspondence
The Clipper: copies
Bill MacDonald & Saul in London - Purchase of the Albion Correspondence 1963 - 1979
Bill E. & D. MacDonald
Rounce & Coffin Club: award of merit (8)
Henry Shire - Drawings for Macbeth (9)
Aubrey Schwartz: Correspondence (20), woodcuts by Michael Berdan
Type Designers: Max Caflisch, Berthold Wolpe, Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold
Occidental Evening - Speeches honoring Lillian Marks by Jake Zeitlin and Bonnie Thompson
American Printing History Association
Printing History Society
Christopher Plantin & the Officina Plantiana - Galley proofs
Ilya Schor - Correspondence and prints (15)
Saul Marks and Grant Dahlstrom: examples of Arthur Ellis Press
Saul Marks
Saul Marks
Condolence letters
Saul Marks & the Plantin Press
Note
- Early correspondence (1940s)
- Manuscripts of Saul's talks
Letters on receiving Saul Marks & the Plantin Press
UCLA Extension Class
Plantin Press: catalogs, exhibits
SERIES: BUSINESS
A - C
Aldus Type Studio: stationery
Roy Anderson: stationery
American Board of Urology: correspondence 1960 - 1974
Boswell, Roy V. - Collection for the History of Cartography: negatives, draft, proofs
Elmer Belt, M.D.: correspondence 1964 - 1979
Black Sparrow Press: correspondence (John Martin) 1969 - 1973
Scope and Content Note
Book Club of California, Letters to Elizabeth: typescript, layout, galley proofs, sample pages
Book Club of California - 1957 - 1975: correspondence
Peg Bowen - Mt. Shasta or Bust: correspondence, draft, book jacket, reviews
Mary Bowling: Intarsis: The Work of Mary Bowling - correspondence, 1971 - 1984
Ray Bradbury: correspondence
Laree & John Caughey: correspondence, stationery
Vera Cornell - Conspicuous California Plants: correspondence
D - H
Dawson's Book Shop - Marbling: A History & Bibliography: invoices, color slides (3), correspondence
Dawson's Book Shop: stationery, sample pages, correspondence 1948 - 1974
Allan Dietch: correspondence
Deresiewicz (I) - St. Stanislaus: Bishop of Krakow: correspondence, layout, prospectus
Deresiewicz (II) - Sarmatia: The Early Polish Kingdom - correspondence.
Deresiewicz (III) - Sarmatia: The Early Polish Kingdom: sample pages, negatives, orders, invoices
Mel & Eleanor Edelstein: correspondence
Clayton Eshelman: Human Wedding - draft, sample pages
Norman R. Handelsman: Serious Reflections on ... the Game of All-Fours
Michael Harrison - Sacramento Book Club collection: correspondence
Maxwell Hunley - Rare books: stationery
Huntington Library (I): correspondence 1946 - 1972
Huntington Library (II): correspondence, prospectuses
Huston, Garth & Pauline: Sir Kenelm Digby's Powder of Sympathy, A Relation of a Brave & Resolute Sea-Flight, negatives, proofs, cost figures
I - M
Imprint Society: correspondence
Philip M. Isaacson: correspondence
Everett G. Jackson: correspondence
Kimbell Art Foundation: Dr. Richard Brown, correspondence
Alfred A. Knopf: correspondence
Henry Kraus: correspondence
Jascha Kessler: correspondence
Jascha Kessler - In Memory of the Future
Lansburgh, Mark & Joyce: correspondence
Limited Editions Club - 1960's: correspondence
George Macy: correspondence 1945 - 1949
George Macy: correspondence 1950 - 1956
Limited Editions Club Award - Saul Marks
Limited Editions Club Award - Lillian Marks
M - P
Helen Macy - 1954 - 1959: correspondence
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Ebria Feinblatt
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: ephemera
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Old Master Drawings in American Collections: correspondence, proofs, agreements
Los Angeles County Museum: ephemera
Spencer H. MacCallum - New Approach to Freedom: correspondence, draft
The Music Guild: programs
Otto Natzler: correspondence
Wallace Nethery: Eliana Americana - invoices
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.: correspondence
Occidental College: correspondence - Ty Harmsen
Prospects
Purchase Orders - miscellaneous
P - U
Purchase Orders - miscellaneous
Purchase Orders - Presses of the Pacific Islands
Purchase Orders - Christopher Plantin & the Officina Plantiniana
Joyce Reed Rosenberg: correspondence
Santa Susana Press - C.S.U. Northridge: correspondence
Berel Satt - A Jewish Town: correspondence
Scott Freutel - Sherwin & Freutel Publishers: correspondence.
Stanford University: correspondence
Gary L. Steigerwald: correspondence
Stevens - Nelson Paper Company: correspondence
John M. Slater - El Morro: correspondence
Ellen Shaffer: correspondence
Sylvester & Orphanos: correspondence, sample pages
Jos. Sullivan - Carson book: correspondence
Tamarind Lithography Workshop: correspondence, photos, reports
Edgar Dorsey Taylor: Baja California Woodcuts - orders
W. Thomas Taylor - bookseller: correspondence, specimen sheet - Nine Requisites for Contented Living, Goethe
Michael R. Thompson: correspondence, stationery
Justin Turner - Lincoln collector: correspondence
UCLA - Grunwald Art Foundation: ephemera
UCLA - music programs
UCLA - miscellaneous correspondence
U - Z
USC - Stationery, etc.
USC Publications: USC Doheny Semi-Centennial Tribute and USC Library - Pardee bookplate
USC - Purchase orders
USC - New Department
Coranto - 1977
Coranto - 1981
University of Hawaii: Angels Over the Water
Austin Warren - Teacher & Critic: correspondence - Myron Simon
Texas State Historical Association: correspondence
Rev. Francis J. Weber - The Franciscans and Los Angeles: draft, engravings, correspondence
Herb Yellin: The Stepfather: draft, galley proofs, page proofs
Zamorano Club: keepsake
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge: Ethical Will of Eleazor of Mainz
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge - Correspondence
SERIES: TYPOPHILES
Elmer Adler: correspondence 1954 - 1958, 1981
Art of the Book - USC
Past Assistants: Michael Berdan, Joe Freedman, William Powers, Linnea Gentry, Arthur Paquette, Paula Williams
Paul Bennett: correspondence 1955 - 1956, 1964 - 1967
Sam Bjurklund - Student, Art of the Book: photos (3) press in Aix-en-Provence, France
Joe Blumenthal: correspondence
California State Library Foundation: correspondence
The Carters - Rampant Lions Press
The Curwen Press
John Dreyfus: correspondence 1961 - 1979
David Godine: correspondence 1970 - 1975, publications
Lawrence Hines - Student, Art of the Book: photos (2)
Harold Hugo - Meriden Gravure Co.: correspondence
Giovanni & Martino Mardersteig: correspondence
R. Hunter (Bob) & Katharine Middleton: Christmas cards
Victor Hammer by R. Hunter Middleton
Ray & Hope Nash: correspondence
Ted Orland - Student, Art of the Book: correspondence
Ted & Linda Organ (Orland): correspondence
Carl Purington Rollins: Fine Printing & the Small Shop and C.P.R.: An Album of Photographs
Albert Schiller: A Prediction: Example of Schiller Prints as Postage Stamps, and others
Jack Stauffacher - Greenwood Press: correspondence
Paul Standard: correspondence 1930 - 1939
Paul Standard: correspondence 1940 - 1949
Paul Standard: correspondence 1950 - 1959
Paul Standard: correspondence 1960 - 1969
Paul Standard: correspondence 1970 - 1983
Taste in Typography - Andrew Horn, UCLA
Typophiles & Printers: correspondence & printed matter David Godine, Richard Archer, David Way, Andrew Horn, Kenneth Carpenter
English Typophiles: Jonathan & Phillida Gili and Humphrey, Solveig & Reynolds Stone
UCLA - School of Library Service: Andrew Horn memorial
Beatrice Warde (I): photograph (1943), correspondence: The Type Specimen of Jean Jannon, 1927, New Light on Typographical Legibility, 1956 and "I am a Communicator"
Beatrice Warde (II): Photograph ca. 1963, correspondence 1958 - 1969 and In Memory: Bearice Warde
Adrian Wilson: correspondence
Women Printers: Lois Rather, Jane Grabhorn, Helen Gentry, Linda Claassen, Linnea Gentry: Kitty Maryatt - Two Hands Press and Bonnie Thompson Norman - Windowpane Press
SERIES: TYPEFOUNDRIES, PAPER
Amsterdam Type Founders: type specimens
Continental & Monotype: type specimens
Bauer Type: type specimens
Type Founders - Paris, Sweden, Germany, etc.: specimens
Type Founders - Miscellaneous: type specimens
Type Specimens (I)
Type Specimens (II)
Linotype: type specimens, Linotype News, 1957
Klingspor: type specimens
Monotype: type specimens, working drawings from Centaur type, Monotype Recorder, "Eric Gill"
Calligraphy & Calligraphers: ephemera, permanence of
Calligraphy: samples, Journal of Society for Italic Handwriting, 1973 - 1974
Tamarind: samples
Barcham Green: samples
Twin Rocker: samples, Christmas cards
Paper: samples, price sheets - Italian handmade, Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, Curtis Paper Co., etc.
SERIES: SUPPLIERS
Art Service: invoices
Art Supplies - Boxwood: invoices
American Type Foundries: invoices
Amsterdam Continental: invoices
Anderson, Ritchie & Simon: invoices
Bookbinding Supplies: invoices
Earle Gray Bookbinding Co.: invoices
Blake, Moffitt & Towne: invoices
Books, Office Supplies: invoices
Cunningham Press: invoices
Current Suppliers: invoices
Dies, Negatives: invoices, copy of die cuts
Engravers - Miscellaneous: invoices
Superior Engraving Company: invoices, copy of engravings
Hartzel Machine Works: invoices
Inks (I): invoices
Inks (II): invoices
Lanston Monotype Company (I) - Correspondence
Lanston Monotype Company (II) - Invoices
Metal Supplies: invoices
The Monotype: invoices, purchase orders, instructions, reproduction proofs of mat case arrangement
Mueller Color Plate Company: invoices
Parts & Repairs: invoices
Shupe Engraving, Mission Engraving: invoices
Supplies - Rollers, Miscellaneous: invoices
Supplies - Small Tools, etc.: invoices
Supplies - Shipping: invoices
United American Metals: invoices
Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc.: invoices
Curtis Paper Company: invoices
Ingram Paper Company: invoices
Matz Paper Company: invoices
Paper Source Limited: invoices
Paper - Miscellaneous: invoices
Outside Printing: invoices
Relly-C Press: invoices
Thompson National Press Company: invoices
Tridon Corporation Keyboard: invoices
Vandercook & Sons: invoices
Zellerbach Paper Company: invoices
SERIES: OTHER PRINTERS
Miscellaneous
The Hand Press: prints, negatives, photographs, sketches
Oddments on Printing and Printers
Grabhorn Press
Stanley Morison: Stanley Morison: A Portrait, by Trustees of the British Museum
Rampant Lions Press: Will & Sebastian Carter, notes of lecture "The Last Kelmscott"
Will Cheney: small publications (3)
Vance Gerry: Typography of the Castle Press
The Ward Ritchie Press: Mr. Eric Gill: Reflections of David Kindersley; An Exhibition of Mr. Blake's Water-color Drawings of Milton's Paradise Lost
The Castle Press - Grant Dahlstrom
Patrick Reagh: California Printing, Part One
Anderson, Ritchie & Simon
Young Printers
Fred & Bertha Goudy - Typographia, Summer 1927
The Golden Cockerel Press: prospectuses
Private Presses
Small Presses
Four Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson - (I)
Four Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson - (II) Chaps. 2, 3, 4
Four Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson - (III) Bookbinding
Four Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson - (IV) Preface, Intro., Addenda, & Appendix
Four Lectures by Cobden-Sanderson - (V) Galley Proofs
Uncompleted Work: Pater's Leonardo, Talmudic Medicine
Fine French Printing
SERIES: MISCELLANEOUS
Acetate Overlays
Max J. Adjarian: stationery
Announcements
Invitations
Phi Beta Kappa: programs
Plantin Press correspondence: 1955 - 1964
Plantin Press correspondence: 1965 - 1974
Plantin Press correspondence: 1975 - 1985
Prospectuses
Ernest E. Gottlieb - Musical Literature: stationery
The Graphic Arts Council - LACMA: ephemera
Menus & Programs
Negatives - miscellaneous works
Occidental College: programs, brochures
Pasadena Art Museum: exhibit catalogs
Raymond & Raymond Art Galleries: stationery, exhibit brochure
Rounce & Coffin Club: ephemera
Stationery Sets: 1920 - 1980
Stationery Sets: 1946 - 1965
Stationery Sets: L.A. County Museum, USC, Coranto, UCLA, and Peter Plons
Sample Pages
Lorraine Art Schneider - Memorial Volume: sample pages, Saul's last book
Season's Greetings
Norman H. Strouse: correspondence, script for talk "Ladies in My Library"
Tamarind Lithography Workshop: stationery, prospectuses
Title Insurance: ephemera
Union Bank & Trust Company: ephemera
UCLA Associated Students: ephemera
Friends of the UCLA Library: ephemera
Wedding Announcements
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge: 1949 - 1974 - ephemera
SERIES: FINANCIAL RECORDS
State Board of Equalization - Correspondence, misc.
Sales Tax and Use Tax Returns: 1937 - 1940
Sales Tax and Use Tax Returns: 1941 - 1947
Sales Tax and Use Tax Returns: 1948 - 1955
State, Local and District Sales and Use Tax Returns
Tax Forms (1959 - 1960)
Wage and Tax Statement: 1970 - 1977
Miscellaneous Tax Papers: 1973 - 1978
Annual Business Tax Statement Record: 1974 - 1976
Quarterly Contribution Return: 1972 - 1979
Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment Tax Return: 1972 - 1977
Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return: 1972 - 1977
Federal Taxes Deposited, Stubs: 1972 - 1977
Business Property Statement
Worksheets: December 1961
Account Cards: 1958 - 1967
Checks, canceled - Crocker Bank: Jan.-Dec. 1977
Checks, canceled - Bank of America: Jan.-Mar. 1977
Financial Statements: 1962 - 1963
Paid Notes
Ledger: 1948 - 1957 (in binder)
Ledger: 1962 - 1969 (in binder)
Cash Receipts: 1944 - 1948
Cash Receipts: 1966 - 1968
Cash Receipts: 1969 - 1972
Cash Receipts: 1973 - 1975
Sales Records: 1944 - 1948
Sales Records: 1965
Sales Records: 1966 - 1968
Sales Records: 1969 - 1972
Sales Records: 1973 - 1975
Ledger: 1962
Compensation Records: 1959 - 1960
Compensation Records: 1961
Compensation Records: no date
Disbursements: 1944 - 1946
Disbursements: 1947 - 1948
Disbursements: 1949 - Jan 1954
Disbursements: 1966 - 1968
Disbursements: 1966 - 1968
Disbursements: 1969 - 1972
Disbursements: 1973 - 1975
Journal Sheets: 1944 - Nov 1948
Journal Sheets: 1958
Journal Sheets: 1958 - 1959
Journal Sheets: 1959
Journal Sheets: 1960
Journal Sheets: 1961
Journal Sheets: 1962 - 1964
Journal Sheets: 1964 - 1965
Journal Sheets: 1977
Invoices: Jan. 1963 - Dec. 1965
Invoices: Jan. 1966 - Dec. 1968
Invoices: Jan. 1969 - Dec. 1972
Invoices: Jan. 1973 - Dec. 1976
Invoices: 1977 - 1980
Invoices: 1979 - 1985
Ledger: 1980 - 1982 (in binder)