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Conversations on type and printing : oral history transcript / and related material, 1967-1976.
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Conversations on type and printing : oral history transcript: and related material, 1967-1976Creator/Contributor:
Harris, Carroll Timanus, 1891-1975, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Teiser, Ruth, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Comments on early interest in typography and work in the east before coming to California; his work for the Monotype Composition
Company in San Francisco, and the formation of Mackenzie and Harris; San Francisco fine printing tradition; Bruce Rogers,
Frederic W. Goudy, the Taylor brothers, John Henry Nash, the Grabhorns, the Kennedys, and printers; labor relations in printing
industry in San Francisco; interest in Book Club of California, the Roxburghe Club, etc. Photographs and a copy of memorial
tribute written by Ruth Teiser inserted.
Date:
1967 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPrinters -- California -- San Francisco
Type and type-founding -- California -- San Francisco
Labor unions -- California
Imprimeurs -- Californie -- San Francisco
Syndicats -- Californie
Labor unions
Printers
Type and type-founding
California
California -- San Francisco
Mackenzie & Harris.
Book Club of California.
Book Club of California.
Mackenzie & Harris.
United States -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
Carroll Timanus Harris ; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1967. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1976 :
Phonotapes also available.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type specimen books to transferred to the book collection of the Bancroft Library.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
[11], 209 leaves ; 28 cm + related material
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.