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(4.75 Linear Feet)This collection consists of books, pamphlets and manuals on printing, typography, and linotype machines.
(2.0 Photographs)Two photographs. One of John T. Raymond, American stage actor, and one of Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano. The photos were a donation from Francel A. Smith in memory of Grover and Clara Graham of Colville, WA.
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Collection of correspondence of significant literary figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
(1.0 Boxes)Collection of letters, handwritten documents, and other materials belonging to Charles Palmer, Midshipman and Lieutenant, who was a member of the 1819-1821 Artic Expedition under Capt. (Commander) Parry, and also Sir J. Franklin. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657406212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657406212205899[/url]
(1.0 Boxes)Collection of notes, photocopies, and reports outlining details for film shots, stills, and other production notes for film project that eventually became Perry Miller Adato's "Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts" (1986). As of 11/2021, collection has been reunified with Perry Miller Adato papers and films, ca. 1968-1982 as Eugene ...
(6.0 Boxes)Peter Rutledge Koch founded Black Stone Press in Missoula, Montana, and [i]Modern Gothic[/i], a journal of poetry, literature and art in 1974. He would eventually move his business from Montana to San Francisco, California in 1978, and later to Berkeley, California. During the next thirty years, Koch would work as a fine art printer in the San Francisco Bay Area under the imprints Peter Rutledge Koch, Typographic Design and Peter Koch, Printers. Peter Koch works as an educator and promoter of book arts and fine art printing through his partnerships with various San Francisco Bay Area institutions and as co-founder of the Codex Foundation (established 2005).
(1.0 Boxes)Personal papers of Emil Peterson, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657407812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657407812205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Papers of Jessie Pope, English journalist, children's writer, poetess, and essayist, including letters to Grant Richards regarding the publication of Robert Noonan's (Robert Tressall, pseud.) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Pope's problems of editing the work, editorial controversies, efforts to change the title, working-class novels, literary review of the book and ...
(1.0 Items)An early text book on arithmetic and bookkeeping. Former Shelfmark: Uncat 84 9
(12.0 Cubic Feet)Papers of the French novelist Marcel Proust provides a look at the man and his times. Proust had a large and varied number of correspondents, and his letters include an important source of information about Parisian life and French culture at the turn of the century. Includes published and unpublished ...
(1.0 Boxes)Pre-publication proof of Marcel Proust's Lettres a Reynaldo Hahn. Proof lacking letter #CXXVIII, cut and trimmed. Edited by P. Kolb. Gift by P. Kolb.
(1.0 Boxes)Papers of Edmund Randolph Purves, including 58 autographed letters signed to Austin M. Purves