Description
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.
Restrictions
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.