Kemble Z3 Ephemera Collection, 1802-2013, bulk 1900-1970

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Summary

Abstract:
The collection comprises a wide variety of ephemera pertaining to printing practice, culture, and history in the Western Hemisphere. Dating from 1802 to 2013, the collection includes ephemera created by or relating to booksellers, printers, lithographers, stationers, engravers, publishers, type designers, book designers, bookbinders, artists, illustrators, typographers, librarians, newspaper editors, and book collectors; bookselling and bookstores, including new, used, rare and antiquarian books; printing, printing presses, printing history, and printing equipment and supplies; lithography; type and type-founding; bookbinding; newspaper publishing; and graphic design. Types of ephemera include advertisements, announcements, annual reports, brochures, clippings, invitations, trade catalogs, newspapers, programs, promotional materials, prospectuses, broadsides, greeting cards, bookmarks, fliers, business cards, pamphlets, newsletters, price lists, bookplates, periodicals, posters, receipts, obituaries, direct mail advertising, book catalogs, and type specimens. Materials printed by members of Moxon Chappel, a San Francisco-area group of private press printers, are extensive.
Language:
Collection materials are primarily in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kemble Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection comprises a wide variety of ephemera pertaining to printing practice, culture, and history in the Western Hemisphere. Dating from 1802 to 2013, the collection includes ephemera created by or relating to booksellers, printers, lithographers, stationers, engravers, publishers, type designers, book designers, bookbinders, artists, illustrators, typographers, librarians, newspaper editors, and book collectors; bookselling and bookstores, including new, used, rare and antiquarian books; printing, printing presses, printing history, and printing equipment and supplies; lithography; type and type-founding; bookbinding; newspaper publishing; and graphic design. Types of ephemera include advertisements, announcements, annual reports, brochures, clippings, invitations, trade catalogs, newspapers, programs, promotional materials, prospectuses, broadsides, greeting cards, bookmarks, fliers, business cards, pamphlets, newsletters, price lists, bookplates, periodicals, posters, receipts, obituaries, direct mail advertising, book catalogs, and type specimens.

The collection contains significant quantities of ephemera created by San Francisco booksellers, stationers, printers, and presses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; ephemera related to university libraries and presses in the United States; and examples of early California newspapers, including small town and foreign language newspapers. There are significant holdings of ephemera related to printers Lawton and Alfred Kennedy and Robert and Edwin Grabhorn, and associations such as the Book Club of California and the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, Inc., and its local and regional chapters. Materials printed by members of Moxon Chappel, a San Francisco-area group of private press printers, are also extensive.

Processing information:

Re-processed by California Historical Society staff in 2010-2013.

Arrangement:

Collection files are arranged in alphabetical order by name of press, printer, company, event, title, individual, or topic. Ephemera created by a press or printer for the Moxon Chappel group is filed under the name of that press or printer in a separate folder containing Moxon Chappel materials.

Oversized ephemera is listed separately, also in alphabetical order. Very large oversized materials are stored separately in a folder.

Accruals:

Additions to the collection are ongoing.

Physical location:
Collection is stored onsite.
Physical description:
185 boxes, 19 oversize boxes, 4 oversize folder (137 linear feet)
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

California Historical Society collections have been transferred to Stanford University Libraries. Collections will be unavailable as Stanford accessions them and updates records. Please contact chscollection@stanford.edu with any inquiries.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kemble Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
chscollection@stanford.edu
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