Collection of publishers' advertising pamphlets, ca. 1900-1920s

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Summary

Abstract:
Approximately 222 publishers' advertising pamphlets from primarily Los Angeles-based bookstores from the 1900s to the 1920s. The majority of pamphlets were produced by Alfred A. Knopf, Macmillan, Houghton-Mifflin, Scribner, Doubleday, Page & Company, Duran Books and P.F. Collier & Son.
Extent:
2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of approximately 222 publishers' advertising pamphlets. Publishers include Alfred A. Knopf, Macmillan, Houghton-Mifflin, Scribner, Doubleday, Page & Company, Duran Books and P.F. Collier & Son. Advertisements also feature local Los Angeles bookstores, including Gillespie's, Fowler Brothers, C.C. Parker, and Stratford & Green. The pamphlets mostly consist of monthly book lists, books of the seasons, books for presents, new books of the year, children's reading lists and summer reading lists.

Biographical / historical:

This collection consists of publishers' advertising pamphlets from primarily Los Angeles Bookstores. The first box contains pamphlets from Fowler Brothers and C.C. Parker Booksellers. Fowler Brothers bookstore was the oldest family-owned bookstore in Los Angeles, in operation from 1888 to 1994, when it closed due to changing times and disruptive subway construction. It began initially as a church and Sunday school supply house, but became a book and stationery store that survived six different downtown locations.

Chas. C. Parker or C.C. Parker Booksellers and Importers was located on 220 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.

The second box contains publishers' advertising pamphlets from Los Angeles and a few from Chicago issued by bookstores that were operating during the early 1900s.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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