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Porter Garnett papers, 1916-1951.
BANC MSS C-H 118LOCAL
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Porter Garnett papers, 1916-1951Creator/Contributor:
Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951Creator/Contributor:
Bird, Grace V., Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-1969Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, miscellaneous papers, drawings and sketches, examples of fine printing (some mounted). Includes
Gelett Burgess material.
Correspondence with Grace V. Bird and Elizabeth Sellers often concerns mutual friends, including David "Clink" Greenhood and
Helen "Billy" Gentry Greenhood, Witter Bynner, Hildegarde Flanner Monhoff, and Frederick Mortimer Clapp, and discusses Garnett's
move to Pittsburgh, Penn. in 1924 to teach and to establish the Laboratory Press. Correspondence between Garnett and Clapp
also includes memos and proofs from Garnett's work on printing the Frick catalog.
Date:
1916 (issued)Subject:
Small pressesPrinting -- History
Petites maisons d'édition
Imprimerie -- Histoire
Printing
Small presses
Laboratory Press.
Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
Laboratory Press.
Bynner, Witter -- 1881-1968
Flanner, Hildegarde -- 1899-1987
Greenhood, David
Clapp, Frederick Mortimer -- 1879-1969
Bynner, Witter -- 1881-1968
Clapp, Frederick Mortimer -- 1879-1969
Flanner, Hildegarde -- 1899-1987
Greenhood, David
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COLLECTION STORED IN PART OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.
Photographs from Boxes 1-4 transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1905.14743-.14835--PIC,
BANC PIC 1953.019--PIC and BANC PIC 1985.039--PIC).
Preliminary list of contents available.
Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded
"The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12),
and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett
was also an active member of the Bohemian Club.
Type:
History.Physical Description:
print
3 cartons, 8 boxes, 1 volume 2 oversize folders and 1 package
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS C-H 118LOCAL
Origin:
No place, unknown, or undeterminedCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED IN PART OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.