Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Rogers (Bruce)
- Extent:
- .6 linear feet (1 half-size document box and 1 clamshell box)
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains correspondence from internationally renowned typographer and designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) to Fred Rudge, Melvin Loos, and others, as well as manuscript and proofs of Rogers' Paragraphs on Printing (William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943), and other design items, ca. 1920-1954. Rogers was born in Linwood, Indiana in 1870, graduated from Purdue University in 1890, and collaborated with William E. Rudge's Sons, mainly during the period from about 1919 to 1928. During his lifetime he designed more than 500 books.
Further information about Rogers may be found in works such as:
Blumenthal, Joseph. Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters, 1879-1957 (1989).Dreyfus, John. Bruce Rogers and American Typography (1959).Duncan, Harry. BR: A Panel Discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary (1981).Glick, William J. William Edwin Rudge (1984).Johnson, Herbert H. Bruce Rogers, 1870-1957: A Bibliographical Record of His Work (1970).Rogers, Bruce. Selected Letters, 1915-1918 (1988).Warde, Frederic. Bruce Rogers, Designer of Books (1968).
UCSB Libraries Special Collections also has a large book collection relating to Rogers, particularly those works associated with the Rudge firm. These have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
- Acquisition information:
- Donation from Fred Rudge and Hobart O. Skofield, and purchase from multiple sources, ca. 1970s.
- Physical location:
- Del Sur
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062