Series 1. Writing and printing surfaces
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Series Scope and Contents
The series consists of various samples of writing surfaces, including paper, vellum, and papyrus. The papyrus samples also
include some with writing, including Greek and Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged topically.
Box 1, Folders 2-3
Papryus samples - Greek script
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Box 1, Folder 4
Papyrus samples - Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Series 2. Writing technologies
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Series Scope and Contents
The series consists of various replicas of early writing tools and instruments, including Sumerian and Cuneiform tablets,
wax and clay seals, and a wax tablet with a Roman stylus.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged topically.
Box 2, Item 5
Parchment with three clay seals
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Box 3, Item 1
Bulla impression from Hyksos period scarab seal
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Box 3, Item 2
Sumerian pictographic tablet - Replica
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Box 3, Item 3
Cylinder seal - Replica
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Box 3, Items 4-5
Cuneiform envelope contract - Replica
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Box 3, Item 6
Roman stylus - Replica
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Box 3, Item 7
Wax tablet - Replica
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Series 3. Book formats
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Series Scope and Contents
The series consists of various examples and souvenir versions of different historic formats of books and manuscripts, including
a bamboo book, palm leaf manuscript, a Chinese printed books, and a book with marbled edges and endpapers.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged topically.
Box 4, Item 2
Palm leaf manuscript - Unknown origin
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Box 4, Item 3
Art of War bamboo book - Souvenir copy
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Box 4, Item 4
Book with marbled endpapers and edges
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Box 5, Item 1
Book on the Han dynasty
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Series 4. Printing technologies
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Series Scope and Contents
The series consists of various samples of different printing technologies, including various types of printing plates, four
Chinese woodblocks, a moveable type block and a piece of linotype.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged topically.
Box 6, Item 1
Chinese movable wood type
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Box 7, Item 1, Box 10, Items 1-3
Chinese woodblocks
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Box 7, Item 2
Copper photoengraving plate
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Box 8, Item 1
Lithograph stone plate
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Box 9, Item 1
Stereotype printing plate
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Box 12, Items 1-2
Intaglio metal plates
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Series 5. Photographic processes
circa 1840-1860
Series Scope and Contents
The series consists of photographs that serve as examples of historical photographic processes.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged topically.
Box 11, Item 1
Daguerreotype - Cased portrait of man
circa 1840-1860
Box 11, Item 2
Daguerreotype - Cased portrait of woman [missing cover]
circa 1840-1860
