Finding Aid for the Zamorano Club Collection 1920-2000
Processed by Jamie Henricks.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California, Los Angeles
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Zamorano Club Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1920-2000
Collection number: Press Coll. Archives Zamorano
Creator: Zamorano
Club
Extent:
15 boxes
Repository:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Collection of materials created by and for
the Zamorano Club, including primarily printed books, pamphlets, and
other ephemera from meetings, talks, and dinners. Also includes minutes
from meetings, meeting announcements, and other club functional
records.
Physical location: Clark Library
Language of Materials: Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Zamorano Club Collection, Press Coll.
Zamorano Archive, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Processing History
This collection was processed and described by Jamie Henricks in
July, 2009. The finding aid adheres to Describing Archives: a Content
Standard (DACS).
Biography
The Zamorano Club is a Southern Californian organization for
bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. It was founded in 1928, and
sponsors lectures and publications on book-related topics. The Club was
named in honor of Agustín V. Zamorano (1798-1842), a provisional
governor of Alta California and the state's first printer. It is club
tradition to present keepsakes to Club members at meetings, resulting in
a variety of printed mementos ranging from pamphlets to small books;
sometimes the items are reproductions of historical documents.
The Zamorano Club has had its meetings at various places since its
founding, including the University Club, the Treasure Room within USC's
Doheny Library, and other locations. As of January 2009, the club
resides at the Women's City Club of Pasadena. In May 1991, coincident
with the move from USC, it was decided to put the Club's book collection
in storage at Occidental College Library. Subsequently the Board of
Governors decided to dispose of the collection, and the books were
accordingly sold at Pacific Book Auction Galleries (sale 180, 15
February 1999). The proceeds from the sale were placed in the Club's
endowment fund.
Early members include A. Gaylord Beaman (insurance), Garner A.
Beckett (cement manufacturer), William W. Clary (attorney), Arthur M.
Ellis (attorney), W. Irving Way (bookman), Robert O. Schad (Curator of
Rare Books, Henry E. Huntington Library), and Robert E. Cowan (Librarian
of William Andrews Clark Library). Lawrence Clark Powell (former UCLA
University Librarian), Ward Ritchie (a fine press printer), and others
have been members of the Zamorano Club as well.
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials created by and for the Zamorano Club:
including primarily printed books, pamphlets, and other ephemeral
keepsakes from meetings, talks, and dinners. Many of the keepsakes
originate from biennial joint meetings of the Zamorano Club (Southern
California) with the Roxburghe Club (Northern California). The
collection also includes bound volumes of minutes from meetings, meeting
announcements, and other club functional records. The items range in
date from 1920 to 2000.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in original order according to processing
done in the past. When appropriate, folders are ordered chronologically,
such as printed ephemera arranged by printing date.
Related Material
The Clark Library holds other material related to the Zamorano Club,
in addition to materials created by or related to printers, publishers
and figures associated with the Club. Much of these items are cataloged
and can be searched via the
UCLA Library's online
catalog.
Archival material related to or produced by presses
and printers is described at the
Clark's
page at the Online Archive of California
.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Book
collectors--California--20th century
Clubs--California--20th
century
Printing--California--History
Genres and Forms
Ephemera--California--20th century
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1-16
Printed Ephemera
1930-1945
Physical Description: 129 items
Scope and Content Note
Invitations for meetings, dinners, lectures, and other events.
Box 2, Folder 1-17
Printed Ephemera
1946-1961
Physical Description: 156 items
Scope and Content Note
Invitations for meetings, dinners, lectures, and other events. Also
includes a folder of undated items.
Box 3, Folder 1-10
Printed Ephemera
1932-1946
Scope and Content Note
Invitations and announcements for meetings, dinners, lectures, and
other events.
Box 3, Folder 15
Correspondence to Charles K. Adams
1941-1942
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from A.G Beaman and Christmas greeting from George W.
Jones.
Box 3, Folder 16
Letterhead for Aldus Manutius Club
Scope and Content Note
A piece of letterhead for the Aldus Manutius Club listing its
officers and location. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom.
Box 4, Folder 1-14
Printed Ephemera
1929-1992
Scope and Content Note
Invitations and announcements for meetings, dinners, lectures, etc.
Also includes a few short bound books and programs on topics such as the
Pony Express, the Zamorano Club 50th Anniversary, and other keepsake
items such as "A Self-Portrait of Captain Agustin V. Zamorano" (printed
1992).
Box 5, Folder 1
Photographs and Members List
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
Photographs requested by Lawrence Clark Powell from the 1954 biennial
joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs in Los Angeles. Some
photos are taken at the Clark Library. The members list is dated 1955.
Box 5, Folder 2
Biennial Meeting Ephemera
1962
Scope and Content Note
Includes invitations, keepsakes, a group photograph, and other
printed ephemera for the 1962 joint meeting of the Zamorano and
Roxburghe clubs. Includes a 1962 reprint for club members of the 1896
pamphlet "In the department of the Interior: In the matter of the
complaint of John L. Howard, et al., against Col. S.B.M. Young, U.S.A.,
Superintendent of the Yosemite National Park, California".
Box 5, Folder 3
Biennial Meeting Ephemera
1965,1966
Scope and Content Note
Includes a 1965 print of the Prayer of St. Francis and keepsakes from
the 1966 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs. The
keepsakes include two copies of the January 1852 Proclamation of Baja
California and a centennial of the China Mail (1866) keepsake.
Box 5, Folder 4
Biennial Meeting Ephemera
1968
Scope and Content Note
Includes keepsakes from the ninth joint meeting of the Zamorano and
Roxburghe clubs in 1968. Keepsakes include "How to Build a Poor Man's
Library" by Michael Harrison, "Old St. Mary's" (San Francisco) for Dr.
Albert Shumate, "Journey with the Sun: The Story of Citrus in its
Western Pilgrimage" by Ed Ainsworth, "Judah Philip Benjamin in
California" by Edgar M. Kahn, "Dr. Syntax and the Bookseller" by William
Combe, "The Smart Set: Suggestions to Our Visitors" edited by George
Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken, "On a Western Beach" by George Sterling,
and a program and dinner menu from the joint meeting.
Box 5, Folder 5
Biennial Meeting Ephemera
Scope and Content Note
Includes a printed invitation to a joint meeting of the Zamorano and
Roxburghe clubs held on September 17th and 18th of an unknown year.
Box 5, Folder 6
Correspondence
1930-1937,
1951-1952
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence between William W. Clary and Charles K.
Adams, letters to club members, a list of books in the library of the
Zamorano Club in 1930 and 1937, and assorted other newspaper clippings
and letters.
Box 5, Folder 7
Resident Members Lists
1961,
1962
Box 5, Folder 8
Carbon copy of "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the
Young", by Oscar Wilde
Box 5, Folder 9
Hoja Volante
1954,
1955,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Three copies of issues of Hoja Volante, a quarterly publication by
the Zamorano Club; includes November 1954, May 1955, and May 1959.
Box 5, Folder 10
"Hey Lot"
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous item printed by the Central Park Press in Aptos,
California, reading "HEY LOT" on the front, and "What are them two
angels doing here in Sodom?" on the inside. Possibly from 1978.
Box 5, Folder 11
Printed Ephemera
1977-1982
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous printed ephemera, some printed for the members of the
Rounce and Coffin Club. Includes a reprint of the "Proclamation:
Providing for the Government of British Columbia, 19th November 1858",
"Humboldtian Physicians in California" by J.B. deC.M. Saunders, and a
variety of invitations.
Box 5, Folder 12
Membership Invitations
1929,
1945,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Three membership invitations for the Zamorano Club, including one
from Lawrence Clark Powell to Richard Archer.
Box 5, Folder 13
"Pisco Paraiso"
Scope and Content Note
An item printed prior to 1968 describing an alcoholic drink including
Pisco brandy, detailing a history running from Christopher Columbus
landing in the New World through the California gold rush.
Box 5, Folder 14
Book list of the library of Arthur M. Ellis
Box 5, Folder 15
Bylaws of the Zamorano Club
1990
Box 5, Folder 16
Resident Members List
1984
Box 6, Folder 1
"The Hand of Zamorano"
1956
Scope and Content Note
Multiple copies of "The Hand of Zamorano: A Manuscript on California
in 1829", a manuscript written by Don Agustin Vicente Zamorano to
Governor Jose Maria de Echeandia in California in 1829, reprinted by the
Zamorano Club in 1956 sa a keepsake from the third joint meeting of the
Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs. The original manuscript is also held by
the Clark Library.
Box 6, Folder 2
Occasional Papers -- California State Library, Sutro
Branch
1939
Scope and Content Note
A bound publication, "Occasional Papers, English Series No. 2: An
Annotated Bibliography and Summary of F. Cole's 'A Perfect Diurnall of
Some Passages in Parliament' (1643-1649)" / edited with and introduction
by Paul Radin. June 1939.
Box 6, Folder 3
"Sir Emery Walker, Born 2nd April 1851, Died 22nd July
1933"
Scope and Content Note
A printed item containing reprints of newspaper articles about Sir
Emery Walker.
Box 6, Folder 4
"An Exhibition of Maps Engraved Within the Present Limits of
the United States Mostly Prior to 1800"
1933
Note
Printed in 1933 by the William L. Clements Library in Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
Box 6, Folder 5
"The Indispensable Books for Collectors of Fine Printing,
Libraries & Museums, Booklovers, Printers/Publishers,
Typographers/Typefounders, published by the Bibliotheca
Tyopgraphica"
[1927?]
Scope and Content Note
Includes privately printed books of the Bibliotheca Typographica
about typography (history, typefounding, etc.). The front page includes
a note to Mr. Clark Jr.
Box 6, Folder 6
Metal relief plate and prints
1951
Scope and Content Note
Includes a thin metal plate and two pieces of paper with the image
from the plate, from Lawrence Clark Powell's announcement for a
Roxburghe meeting in December 1951.
Box 6, Folder 7
Three magazines
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Includes two issues of Westways magazines and an issue of the New
Mexico magazine.
Box 6, Folder 8
El Piolin Centennial Broadsheet
1947
Note
For the centennial of the El Piolin Spring at the Presidio in
San Francisco. This item is located in the oversized broadsheets and
manuscripts drawer, which can be found in the oversized item map
drawers.
Box 7, Folder 1
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1920-1929
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations and keepsakes.
Box 7, Folder 2
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1930-1934
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations and keepsakes. Includes "A
Census of California Spanish Imprints 1833-1845".
Box 7, Folder 3
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1935-1939
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly keepsakes and invitations to meetings,
dinners, and talks.
Box 7, Folder 4
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1940-1944
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to meetings, dinners, and talks.
Box 7, Folder 5
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1945-1946
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to meetings, dinners, and talks.
Also includes a memorial address for Homer Earle in 1946.
Box 7, Folder 6
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1947
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to meetings, dinners, and talks.
Also includes a pamphlet about the Third Annual Founder's Day of the
Clark Library, held June 1st, 1947.
Box 7, Folder 7
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera and correspondence; mainly invitations to meetings,
dinners, and talks.
Box 7, Folder 8
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Printed meeting invitations.
Box 8, Folder 1
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1950-1954
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations and keepsakes from meetings.
Box 8, Folder 2a
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1955-1959
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations and keepsakes from meetings.
Also includes a copy of "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar", by Bret
Harte, with illustrations by Harry O. Diamond, 1955.
Box 8, Folder 2b
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1955-1959
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to meetings.
Box 8, Folder 3
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to talks.
Box 8, Folder 4
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
1971
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera; mainly invitations to talks.
Box 8, Folder 5
H. Richard Archer's Zamorano Club files
Scope and Content Note
Undated printed ephemera; mainly invitations to dinners and talks.
Box 9, Folder 1-6
Biennial Meeting Keepsakes
1970-1990
Scope and Content Note
Printed keepsakes for the joint meetings of the Zamorano and
Roxburghe clubs in 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, and
1990.
Box 10, Folder 1
Another View of the San Francisco 1856 Vigilance Committee:
Robert George Byxbee's Letter to His Sister, June 1856 / A keepsake with
introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 2
Coorigenda and Addenda to The Life of Sir William Osler /
Printed for John C. Carson, M.D. and K. Garth Huston, Jr., M.D. by The
Parker Press.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 3
Burrowings of a Bookworm / Everton Yorrik Davis Jr. Regis
Graden at Nut Quad Press; Pasadena, California.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 4
Robert O. Schad: A Treasure of a Bookman / Donald C.
Dickinson. Zamorano Club.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 5
Imprenta Glorias / bound by Allwyn O'Mara. Fluerons
keepsake.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 6
Fray Estevan Tapis, O.F.M. (1745-1825) / Maynard J. Geiger,
edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Friends of the Archival Center
Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 7
Jonathon Swift quotation written by Adolph Sutro. Presented
by Muir and Michael Dawson, and Doris Harris. Printed letterpress by
Regis Graden.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 8
A Celebration of Clifton F. Smith's Life 1920-1999: A Santa
Barbara Native Son / Dennis Kruska; Sherman Oaks, California.
1999
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 9
The Book Collector / Charles Nodier. Regis Graden at Nut Quad
Press.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 10
Surfing the Circle of Willis / Edwin Todd. Patrick Reagh;
Sebastapol, California.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 11
California's Catholic Historiography: A Personal Memoir /
Monsignor Francis Weber. Records of the American Catholic Historical
Society of Philadelphia, vol. 109, nos. 1 and 2.
1999
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 12
Toiletry at the California Missions / Monsignor Francis J.
Weber. Presented as a keepsake by Msgr. Frances J. Weber.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 13
The Zamorano Club Programs: Index to the Speakers 1928-1998 /
compiled by Stuart F. Robinson. Presented as a keepsake.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs.
Box 10, Folder 14
John Henry Nash at Mission Hills / Roxburghe Club of San
Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. Presented as a
keepsake.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs. This item
is located in the "WXYZ" drawer, which can be found in the oversized
item map drawers.
Box 10, Folder 15
The Zamorano Club 1928-2000 / compiled by Francis J. Weber.
Memento.
2000
Note
One of the printed items given as keepsakes from the October
13-15, 2000 joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs. This item
is located in the "WXYZ" drawer, which can be found in the oversized
item map drawers.
Box 11, Folder 1
Printed Ephemera
1997-1999
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous printed ephemera; mainly meeting keepsakes and
invitations.
Box 12, Folder 1
List of Books Published and Keepsakes -- Zamorano
Club
Scope and Content Note
A small black three ring binder with a bibliography of books
published by the Zamorano Club from 1929 to 1964, and "A Keepsake on
Keepsakes", which is a list of all keepsakes from meetings from 1953 to
1966.
Box 12, Folder 2
List of Books Published
Scope and Content Note
A small cloth-covered binder includes books published by various
presses or printers. This binder includes Wilder Bentley (1930 to 1946),
Thomas Perry Stricker (1930 to 1944), and the Hart Press (1929 to 1949).
Box 12, Folder 3
List of Books Published
Scope and Content Note
A small cloth-covered binder includes books published by various
presses or printers. This binder includes Muir Dawson (1947 to 1951),
Ted Freedman / Platen Press (1935 to 1950), Grant Dahlstrom / Ampersand
Press (1929 to 1951), Bruce McCallister (1926 to 1942), Greenwood Press
(1948), Helen Gentry (1930 to 1932), Elkus (1944 to 1946), Untide Press
(1944 to 1948), Plantin Press (1932 to 1950), Gregg Anderson / Grey Bow
Press (1928 to 1937), William Cheney / The Auk Press (1933 to 1950), and
Richard Hoffman / College Press (1936 to 1950).
Box 12, Folder 4
List of Books Published
Scope and Content Note
A small cloth-covered binder includes books published by various
presses or printers. This binder includes Helen Gentry (1929 to 1938),
Windsor Press (1926 to 1942), Nathan van Patten (1930 to 1949),
Cummington Press (1950), Centaur Press (1949 to 1950), and miscellaneous
other presses (1923 to 1950).
Box 13, Folder 1-2
Minutes of Club Meetings
1927-1965
Box 13, Folder 3
Minutes of Board of Governors
1928-1964
Box 13, Folder 4-6
Letters and Miscellany
1928-1946
Box 13, Folder 7
Members, Summaries of Meetings, and Keepsakes
1927-1952
Box 13, Folder 8
Checklist of Meeting Announcements
1928-1966
