Collections Database Print Material Collections Alvin Doyle Moore fine prin... Finding AidTitle: Alvin Doyle Moore fine print collection, 1959-2004
ID: 02/Moore
Primary Creator: Moore, A. Doyle (Alvin Doyle) (1931-2013)
Extent: 0.62 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: The ephemeral materials that make up this collection are organized by size. Series 1 includes materials that fit inside of a letter size folder, which are largely sub-organized by title. Series 2 includes materials that are oversize.
Subjects: Fine Books, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
Forms of Material: Private press books
Languages: English
This collection contains printed works and broadsides printed at Finial Press in Champaign, Illinois. Select materials were designed by founder Alvin Doyle Moore (1931-2013), a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois for over thirty years.
These materials supplement a collection of bound volumes that are available to request through our Special Collections Catalog.
Alvin Doyle Moore (1931-2013) was an American graphic designer, fine printer, and educator. Born to Selva Dewey and Louetta Carrie Leitner Moore in Seiling, Oklahoma, Moore was adopted by Hazel and Lynn Russell of Garden City, Kansas, in 1947.
Moore attended the University of Kansas and earned a BA in architecture circa 1953. He then served four years with the United States Air Force. While stationed in Tokyo, Moore served as an art director for Stars and Stripes. Here, he recognized an interest in graphic design, as well as in Japanese arts and culture.
Shortly after his return to the United States, Moore matriculated at the University of Iowa, earning an MFA in design circa 1959. He was first introduced to fine printing as a graduate student under Harry Duncan (1916-1997), founder of Cummington Press. In 1959, Moore joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, where he taught graphic design at the School of Art and Design. During this time, he also founded Finial Press, a private press of fine books and ephemera that operated in Champaign, IL, for roughly 40 years.
Even in retirement, Moore maintained his relationship with the Champaign-Urbana community. He taught courses in advanced typography and Japanese aesthetics, and served as Chief Administrator of the Chado Urasenke Takokai Urbana-Champaign Association.
For more information, check out the A Doyle Moore Papers and Music at The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.
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Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.
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