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Guide to the Luis A. Ireland Correspondence and Papers, 1910-1960
BANC MSS C-B 477
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Collection Title: Luis A. Ireland Correspondence and Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1910-1960
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 477
Creator:
Ireland, Luis A. (Luis Arthurs), 1880-1960
Extent:
Number of containers: 3 boxes, 4 cartons, 1 oversize volume, and 1 oversize folder.
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Letters, manuscripts and reprints of his writtings and speeches, reports, scrapbooks, and clippings, relating to his career
in the printing industry in San Francisco, mainly as secretary of the Printer 's Board of Trade and the Employing Printers'
Association, and to his work with the California Apprenticeship Council and Woodrow Wilson Progressive League.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library 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 by the reader.
[Identification of item], Luis A. Ireland Correspondence and Papers, BANC MSS C-B 477, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Luis A. Ireland was born in England in 1880 and began his career there as a reporter on the Bridgewater
Mercury and then the Somerset County
Gazette. Later he was employed by the London Times to work on the
Encyclopedia Britannica. He came to New York in 1902 and to San Francisco in 1904 where, for several years, he was on the staff of
Sunset magazine. After working with several San Francisco printing firms, he became assistant secretary of the Printers' Board of
Trade in 1919 and secretary two years later, serving in the latter capacity until dissolution of the Board in 1941. In 1927
he became executive secretary of the newly formed Employing Printers' Association and in 1937, executive secretary of the
newly formed Employing Lithographers' Association, retaining both positions until his retirement in 1958. He was appointed
a member of the California Apprenticeship Council in 1939, served as its first chairman and was reappointed to membership
by successive governors. In addition, he was active in the Industrial Relations Section of the Commonwealth Club. From his
retirement in July, 1958 until his death on July 24, 1960, Ireland continued to serve the printing industry as a consultant
in industrial relations.
His papers were given to The Bancroft Library by his son, Luis G. Ireland, in 1960 with additions in 1961. They relate mainly
to his career in the printing industry, with some Papers documenting, also, his activities with the California Apprenticeship
Council and the Woodrow Wilson Progressive League of California. Photographs have been removed to the Library's Pictorial
Collection.
A key to arrangement and partial list of correspondents follows.