Preliminary Guide to the Mudborn Press Collection

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Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Preliminary Guide to the Mudborn Press Collection, ca. 1950s-1986

Collection number: Printers Mss 14

Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Information:

  • Department of Special Collections
  • Davidson Library
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Santa Barbara, CA 93106
  • Phone: (805) 893-3062
  • Fax: (805) 893-5749
  • Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
  • URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
    Processed by:
    D. Tambo
    Date Completed:
    08 December 2003
    Encoded by:
    David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Mudborn Press Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1950s-1986
Date (bulk): (bulk 1975-1986)
Collection Number: Printers Mss 14
Creator: Mudborn Press
Extent: 1.1 linear feet (2 document boxes and 1 oversize box)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Boxes 1-2 (Del Sur); Box 3 (Del Sur Oversize)
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

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

Mudborn Press Collection. Printers Mss 14. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1986.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains announcements and invitations, broadsides, checklists, commercial work, linoleum block and relief prints, page layouts, posters, postcards, programs, publisher's promotional pieces, type specimen sheets, and related artwork and other materials of jobs printed by the Mudborn Press, founded in Santa Barbara in 1975 by Judyl Mudfoot and Sasha Newborn.
Books and a number of broadsides by Mudborn Press have been cataloged separately and may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

Box 1: 1

Checklists, ca. 1981

Box 1: 2

J. Mudfoot, Printer, 1986

Box 1: 3

Art/Life Magazine, ca. 1985

Box 1: 3 - 2: 11

Jobs

Box 1: 4

Bicentennial of the Presidio of Santa Barbara, 1982

Box 1: 5

Cadmus Editions, 1981 - 1982

Box 1: 6

Commercial Work Samples, ca. 1980 - 1983

Box 1: 7

Drake, Albert - Garage, 1982

Box 1: 8

Erenberg, Sam, 1984

Box 1: 9

Eye Magazine, ca. 1982

Box 1: 10

Guden, Guy - Cassanova's Lips, 1981

Box 1: 11

High Window, n.d.

Box 1: 12

i.e., n.d.

Box 1: 13

Inklings 1, 1979

Abstract: ["facing-page translations of uncommon texts, from uncommon languages"]
Box 1: 14

Kardec, Alan - Book of Oracles, 1984

Box 2: 1

Killing of Nettie Love, 1983

Abstract: [Sam Erenberg]
Box 2: 2

McGrath, n.d.

Box 2: 3

Mudfoot, Judyl - Presents, 1977

Box 2: 4

Orsman/Gonzales, ca. 1970s

Box 2: 5

Pope, Barbara - Fifty Golden Leaves, 1985

Box 2: 6

Tomlinson, Kerry - Night Letter, 1981

Box 2: 7

Whigham, Peter (translator) - Ma Douce Provence, 1978

Box 2: 8

Wicklund, Millie Mae - Hallmark Piece, 1983

Box 2: 9

Young, Noel - Birthday Card

Box 2: 10

Mudfoot Memorabilia, ca. 1950s-1970s

Abstract: [mainly collages of family snapshots]
Box 2: 11

Posters and Miscellany, ca. 1976 - 1982

Box 3: 1 - 3

Broadsides, Posters, and Related Artwork, ca. latter 1970s-early 1980s

Box 3: 1 - 4

Oversize Materials

Box 3: 4

Hopkins, Steven - The Leaving, 1978