Description
Correspondence, writings, designs, photographs, prints, artwork and ephemera produced by Henry H. Evans and the Peregrine
Press.
Background
Evans was born in Superior, WI, in 1918; alumnus of the Univ. of California, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco
State College, and the Univ. of Arizona; opened the Porpoise Book Shop in 1942 in Tucson, AZ, and relocated it to San Francisco,
CA, in 1944; in 1949 he bought a hand press and began printing books of poetry and later began producing block prints of his
own; many of his linocuts were botanical prints and still lifes, and he produced prints of over 600 subjects.
Extent
19 boxes (12 linear feet), plus flat files
Restrictions
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore
cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials
they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or
other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Availability
This collection is open to researchers.