Becky Fischbach Papers SC1502
Jenny Johnson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
August 2019
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Becky Fischbach Papers
creator:
Fischbach, Becky
creator:
Fischbach, Becky
Identifier/Call Number: SC1502
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1970-2019
Language of Material: English
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information
on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of documents related to Fischbach's work at Stanford in the late 1970s and early 1980s and her participation
in feminist, gay, and lesbian culture at Stanford through the 1990s. Small-scale artists' books broadsides and ephemera, some
created for Special Collections and University Archives departing staff, are also included.
Preferred Citation
Becky Fischbach Papers (SC1502). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections 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, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also
apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Becky Fischbach, 2019.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Feminism.
Artists' books -- United States
Broadsides
Homosexuality and education -- United States.
Gay college students -- United States.
Lesbian college students -- United States.
Fischbach, Becky
Fischbach, Becky
Fischbach, Becky
Fischbach, Becky
Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues.
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Papers Accession ARCH_2019_213
SWOPSI 178 Lesbian Visions in Literature
Box 1, Folder 1
Course files for "Two Women, Eye to Eye: Lesbian Visions in Literature," co-taught with Kim Bancroft, through Stanford Workshops
on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI). Faculty sponsor Diane Middlebrook
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 2
Course proposal
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 3
Course development notes
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 4
Course development source materials and correspondence
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 6
Speaker funding
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 7
SWOPSI course catalog [spring 1982]
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 8
Course syllabus
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 9
Fischbach talking notes
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 10
Reference articles
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 11
Ann Bannon, Journey to a Woman, photocopy
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 12
Complete copy of course reader
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 13
Readings, supplemental
1982 Spring
Box 1, Folder 14
Class participants' papers and reports
1982 Spring
Scope and Contents
Students' papers include personal revelations related to feminism and sexual identity. Withheld pending authors' permission
to include in archive, August 2019. Box includes empty labelled folder.
SWOPSI 178 women's Poetry and Politics
Box 2, Folder 1
Course development files for "Women's Poetry and Politics: A Feminist Analysis,'" taught through Stanford Workshops on Political
and Social Issues (SWOPSI). Faculty sponsor: Barbara Gelpi
1978 Fall
Box 2, Folder 2
SWOPSI 178 Women's Poetry and Politics lesson plans
1978 Fall
Box 2, Folder 3
SWOPSI 178 Women's Poetry and Politics correspondence and notes
1978 Fall
Student activism, feminism, gay rights, divestment
1970s-1980s
Box 2, Folder 4
SWOPSI catalogs, brochures, and fliers
1978–1985
Box 2, Folder 5
The Bridge gay peer counselling group and speakers' group
1978–1979
Box 2, Folder 6
Event posters and fliers
1970s–1980s
Box 2, Folder 7
Visions and Revisions: The Women's Movement | Women's week at Stanford
1977 Oct 8-12
Box 2, Folder 8
"Out on the Farm" Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week program
1982
Box 2, Folder 9
"Out at Stanford" and Stanford Libraries "Gifted Folk" group newsletters and email
1990
Box 2, Folder 10
"Beyond Het" Stanford women's staff support network
1990
Box 2, Folder 11
SCRIP (Stanford Committee for Reponsible Investment Policy) and South Africa Catalyst Project organizing handbook
circa 1985
Box 2, Folder 12
Indochina Peace Campaign newspaper
circa 1970s
Box 2, Folder 13
Everywoman Self Defense Collective aka Mid-Peninsula Women's Self Defense Collective, notes, fliers, and teaching materials
1980s–1990s
Box 2, Folder 14
FIST [Feminists in Self-Defense Training] Handbook
1980s
Stanford News Service in-house rag
Box 2, Folder 15
Casper Retort: Stanford News Service in-house satirical news sheet Special party issue, July 10, 1993; and Special "Farewell
Publications" party issue, August 25, 1994. Anonymous by design.
1993–1994
Barry Hinman retirement sendoff
Box 2, Folder 15
Casper Retort: Stanford News Service in-house satirical news sheet Special party issue, July 10, 1993; and Special "Farewell
Publications" party issue, August 25, 1994. Anonymous by design.
1993–1994
Box 2, Folder 16
The Marriage of Wit and Library Science: A very fictionalized account of the life and times of Barry Hinman, or a morality
play, by T. Edward Noakes
2007 Jul 3
Box 2, Folder 17
The "Rare Book of Barry" and "Barry's Bench"
2007 Summer
Box 2, Folder 18
Thumbnail photos of rretirement party for Librarian and longtime rare book cataloger Barry Hinman
2007 Jul 3
Box 2, Folder 19
"Overview of Cataloguing in the Department of Specal Collections and University Archives at Stanford" by Barry Hinman
2007 Summer
Artists' books and broadsides
Box 3, Folder 0
"The Stanford Album" special portfolio edition [Susan Sarandon feature]
1996
Scope and Contents
"artists' proof" copy of a spoof of The Stanford Album (Roxanne Nilan and Margo Davis). This was my first foray into using
PhotoShop to created altered photographic images. I created it as a farewell gift for [Assistant University Archivist] Linda
J. Long when she and her partner, historian Peggy Pascoe, left Stanford for Eugene [University of Oregon] in 1996.
Box 3, Folder 0
Beastly Occurrences
1995 Summer
Scope and Contents
colophon: "I had these encounters while living and working at The Yolla Bolly Press for one week in September 1995. I began
printing with wood and metal type at the Press in Round Valley and finished it with digital type on a laser printer in Silicon
Valley. —B.F." [edition of fifty]
Box 3, Folder 0
"Double Prints: Our First Summer in the Sierra" Dawdling Fischbrook, scribbler and scribe; Climb Every Mountain Nye and Mounatin
Goat Marks, cohorts
1994 Summer
Scope and Contents
colophon: "This book was thought up in thin air and prduced in a chapped-lip format in an edition of seven. This is copy 1."
dedication: "for Judy, who tops the list of what to bring next time." snail'space 1994. Additional notes: I wote this on a
Yosemite High Country backpacking trip with Jamie Marks and Peter Nye in 1994. Before setting out, we challenged each other
to remove one "essential" thing from our packs. I chose to leave my camera behind. The book's text consists of verbal snapshots
I took along the trail. Originally the whole book was hand-lettered, but I was dissatisfied with the quality and legibility
of the texts so reverted to computer typesetting all but the title. I used three of the hand-lettered poems in a new year
greeting the following year.
Box 3, Folder 0
New Year's greeting
1995 Jan
Scope and Contents
Consists of three of the word snapshots from "Double Prints" rendered in calligraphy. Printed on leftover endsheet trim from
exhibit catalog "W.B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance" [1990], the first catalogue I designed for the libraries, on a Mac
SE.
Box 3, Folder 0
Button Ladies, with wrapper, French string, and button closure.
2001
Scope and Contents
Colophon, typeset in the shape of a circular button, with the edition quantity [00] at the center: "Becky Fischbach wrote,
designed, and digitally typeset Button Ladies in Gudrun Zapf von Hesse's Nofret type in an edition of [00] copies, fall 2001.
Cover prnted letterpress at The Yolla Bolly Press in Covelo, CA; balance laser-printed and button-stamped by hand." Dedication:
For Judy, who watched a five-story building be demolished while I shopped, and for the love of beauty in small things. B.F."
copyright 2001 E.A. Fischbach by order of her agent.
Box 3, Folder 0
Things to Like About Winter: winter solstice greetings
2009
Scope and Contents
3.5 x 2-inch book folded from a single sheet of paper. In slipcase
Box 3, Folder 0
Winter Remedy: winter solstice greerings
2018
Scope and Contents
3.5 x 2-inch card, hand-colored, and filled with dried sunflower petals. In slipcase
Box 3, Folder 0
Broadside : Roosevelt quote
2002
Scope and Contents
Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote about world peace with interlinear text by Becky Fischbach. Designed and letterpress printed
by BF; sent as a winter greeting from Judy [Adams] and Becky Fischbach
Box 3, Folder 0
Broadside: Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
circa 2002
Scope and Contents
printed letterpress on various papers; handmade envelope
Box 3, Folder 0
Broadside: Mary Oliver "Morning Glories"
circa 1996
Scope and Contents
Printed at The Yolla Bolly Press from hand-set metal type and linocut. Hand-colored. Mailed in the winter with morning glory
seeds and message "Out of Season Greetings from Becky and Judy"
Box 3, Folder 0
Remembering James Robertson
2002
Scope and Contents
Booklet of memorial tributes to Jim Robertson, co-founder of The Yolla Bolly Press. Designed by Becky Fischbach; printed by
Phelps-Schaefer Litho-Graphics; cover art and printing by Aaron Johnson at The Yolla Bolly Press. In envelope with broadside
of "Letras" by Enrique Diez-Canedo, design and printed in Spanish and English by Jack Stauffacher, The Greenwood Press, SF
Box 3, Folder 0
Sandstone column embossing template
1990s
Scope and Contents
Hand cut 4-ply board template for hand-embossing farewell book for University Archivist Roxanne Nilan
Box 3, Folder 0
The Chronicles of Ferdinand, Queen Bess Isabella
2007
Scope and Contents
Written in daily journal format, this is the tale of 3 Florida monarch chrysalids that hatched in our house in Menlo Park
and what became of them. 5.5 x 8.5-inch sewn pamphlet with paper wrapper cover. This is an unfinished edition. The cutaway
inside the front flap shows my intention for the entire cover.
Ann Rosener exhibit at Mills College, Oakland
Scope and Contents
Materials in this box relate to an exhibit at Mills College featuring work by designer, printer and publisher Ann Rosener,
whose papers are in Stanford's Special Collections [M1946]. Originally proposed for the Peterson Gallery in Green Library,
the exhibit was mounted at the Olin Library at Mills, a space more suited to the scale of the show.
Box 4, Folder 1
Ann Rosener: Designer, Printer Publisher exhibit publicity
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 2
Ann Rosener exhibit loan
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 3
Ann Rosener exhibit layout
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 4
Rosener exhibit labels
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 5
Rosener ehibit postcard announcement
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 6
Rosener exhibit planning notes and correspondence
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 7
Remembering Ann tribute by Becky Fischbach
2013 Fall
Box 4, Folder 8
Ann Rosener 1914–2012 memorial booklet and correspondence
2012 Spring-Summer