Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Grolier Club and Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001
- Abstract:
- This collection contains materials produced by The Grolier Club, including event announcements, yearly event lists, publications for sale, keepsake booklets, correspondence, and exhibition catalogs.
- Extent:
- 0.42 Linear Feet 1 box
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Clark Library Collection on The Grolier, Press Coll. Archives Grolier, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains materials largely produced for members of the Grolier Club. It includes announcements for events (meetings, annual meetings, and exhibitions), lists of events held yearly, publications for sale by the Grolier Club, keepsake booklets for members, correspondence, and exhibition catalogs. Lawrence Clark Powell's club membership invitation is also included. Items range in date from 1893 to 1999, but the majority of the collection ranges from the 1940s to 1960s.
Four printed announcements which were not keepsakes of the Grolier Club were removed from box 1 and moved to a folder in the Fine Press Ephemera Collection (Press Coll. Ephemera). The folder is titled "Items from the Grolier Club Collection." This includes a Roxburghe Club meeting invitation, an American Institute of the Graphic Arts exhibition announcement, a 1961 yearly events list for the Bibliographical Society (London), and a list of publications from 1892 to 1948 of the Rowfant Club.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Grolier Club is an organization of bibliophiles founded by Robert Hoe and his friends. It began in New York City in January, 1884, making it the oldest club of its kind in North America. The Grolier Club has a research library specializing in books, printing (especially the history of printing and examples of fine printing), binding, illustration and bookselling. The club hosts programs including exhibitions for the public, annual and monthly meetings for its members, and publishes books regularly.
- Acquisition information:
- This is an artificial collection, containing items donated by former Clark Librarian Lawrence Clark Powell, and collected over time by other staff of the Clark Library.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Jamie Henricks, August 2009.
The title of this collection was changed in March 2023 by Rebecca Fenning Marschall, from "Grolier Club Collection" to better reflect its content and provenance.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged thematically, and items are organized by date when possible. Undated items are put at the back of each folder behind dated items.
- Physical location:
- Housed off-site at SRLF. Please notify Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks in advance to request items from this collection.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Clark Library Collection on The Grolier, Press Coll. Archives Grolier, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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2520 Cimarron StreetLos Angeles, CA 90018, US
- Contact:
- (310) 794-5155