Preliminary Guide to the William Hancock Wilke Collection
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo; latest revision, E. Fields
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Preliminary Guide to the William Hancock Wilke Collection, ca. early 1900s
Collection number: Printers Mss 23
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo; latest revision, E. Fields
- Date Completed:
- Mar. 28, 2012
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: William Hancock Wilke Collection
Dates: ca. early 1900s
Collection number: Printers Mss 23
Creator:
Wilke, William Hancock
Collection Size:
ca. 22 linear feet
(24 boxes, 14 oversize boxes, and 3 map cabinet drawers).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: Examples of illuminations and book plates Wilke did for the press of John Henry Nash, as well as numerous drawings and water
colors of San Francisco scenes, and two original posters for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.
Physical location: SRLF (boxes 1-38); Map Cabinets 20-17, 20-18 and 20-19.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
William Hancock Wilke Collection. Printers Mss 23. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content Notes
William Hancock Wilke was born in San Francisco, California on June 1, 1879. Wilke was raised in the Mission District and
studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Arthur Mathews. Accompanied by Joseph Raphael, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship
for further study under Laurens. Prior to his departure he took French lessons from Nettie McConnell for whom he sent and
married in Paris in 1903. Wilke did many of the illuminations and book plates produced by the press of John Henry Nash. Collection
contains examples of those, and numerous drawings and water colors of San Francisco scenes.
Oversize material in del Sur: Some not yet sorted or identified. Includes two original posters by WHW for the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (one on paper and one on canvas).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Wilke, William Hancock
John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press
San Francisco (Calif.)
Printing--California.
Box 3
Photographs/paintings, drawings, and watercolors
Box 4
The Informant/Shreve Col. purse clasp design and calendar/book plate design
Box 5
Clippings of photos used for prints; Prints; Design sketches
Box 6
Prints – personal work, quick sketches and caricatures
Box 7
Jewelry and purse clasp design; Wilke Handwrought Metalwork Book; Ornamental sketches
Box 8
Printed designs and ads; newspaper clippings; Biblical sketches
Box 9
Border designs and framing devices; Sketches - boats; Misc. designs
Box 11
Misc. clippings; Printed brochures, broadsides, posters; Misc. design sketches
Box 12
Logo & label designs (misc); Logo designs (liquor); Cards and card designs
Box 15
Book design; Sketchbook from European trip
1903
Box 16
Kaiser designs; Futuristic plane, boat, and car design; Plant design and flow charts
Box 17
Printed ads and designs; package design; poems, notes, correspondence
Box 19
Brochure and candy box design; completed brochures/magazines
Box 26
Miscellaneous prints/designs, photographs
Box 29
Miscellaneous broadsides, watercolors, drawings & prints
Box 30
Unsorted broadsides with duplicates
Box 31
Unsorted broadsides with duplicates
Box 32
Etchings, unsorted broadsides with duplicates
Map Cabinet 20-17, 20-18, 20-19
