Wesleyan University Library collection of fine press ephemera
Scope and Contents
The collection, which is arranged by press name or printer’s name, comprises ephemeral items produced by each press. The bulk are letterpress book prospectuses, but also include press catalogs and other advertising. "Secondary material" here refers to subject or clipping files taken from local and national publications about the press or printer, and are housed in a separate folder from the press ephemera itself.
Dates
- Creation: 1910s-
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright unknown - Copyright not evaluated
Biographical / Historical
This collection of printed ephemera and subject files about fine presses has been accumulated by Olin Library throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Extent
12.5 Linear Feet (21 hollinger boxes and 2 oversize flat hollinger boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection of printed ephemera and subject files about fine presses has been accumulated by Olin Library throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The collection, which is arranged by press name or printer’s name, comprises ephemeral items produced by each press.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged alphabetically by press or printer's name.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accumulated by Olin Library.
Source
- Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Library (Organization)
- Title
- Wesleyan University Library collection of fine press ephemera, 1910s-
- Author
- Processed by Anne Thompson (Wesleyan class of 2002), Cristin Quealy (class of 2004), Martha Fleming-Ives (class of 2005), Melanie McCrea (class of 2006), and Jeffrey Makala in 2004 Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, April 2008 Migrated to ArchivesSpace by Jenny Miglus, August 2020
- Date
- August 7, 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository