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Consists of ten watercolor paintings on pith paper. Each illustration depicts a Chinese woman engaged in an aspect of silk making, including weaving, spinning, and winding silk

A collection of photographs relating to the life of Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her husband, John Daggett Hooker (1838-1911), and their daughter Marian Osgood Hooker (1875-1968), an amateur photographer who made many of the photographs in the collection. The majority of the collection shows Hooker family, friends and associates at the large Hooker family residence and garden, 325 West Adams Street, Los Angeles. Some of the friends include George Ellery Hale, Margaret Collier Graham (copy photograph only), John Muir, and Jules Simoneau. There are group portraits of Marian Hooker with other students of the graduating class of 1894 of the Marlborough School, a private Los Angeles girl's school. The girls are identified as: Mary Hardy, Henriette Vischer, Marian Hooker, Alice Paul and Bessie Ellis. Other posed group photographs show young women in costumes of traditional Japanese and Turkish clothing (ca. 1893-1894) or posed and dressed as "Lphigenie" (1906). There are also ...

Papers document Ransom's academic career. A champion of library development, Ransom promoted the concept and construction of UT's Undergraduate Library and Academic Center and of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, a renowned collection which includes rare books, literary manuscripts, and theater arts, film, and photography archives. Materials consist primarily of UT-related correspondence and include reports, agreements, resolutions, rules and regulations, class and research notes, blueprints and photographs, which provide official information on the University of Texas and biographical information on Ransom

Typescript, books, passport, photograph -- This collection contains a small group of materials of Frederick A. Greenhut and the Greenhut family of Pensacola, Florida, including genealogical information and Greenhut's career in the National Archives. There is a photocopy of chapter eight of the typescript for "Thomas, Stately Tomb", a copy of "Dynamics of Dutch Politics" in the Journal of Politics, written by Richard C. Bone, Greenhut's passport, dated 1969, an unidentified color photograph, probably the Greenhut family, on board a cruise vessel, and the following two books: The Holy Scriptures, according to the Masoretic Text, a new translation; and Macaulay's essays and bibliographies, volume IV. There is also material related to bookbinding

Collection consists of Edward McLean's hand bound books, his estate papers, materials about him, a catalog of books bound by him and of his rare book collection. Included are pamphlets and articles about churches, missions, St. Francis Cathedral, and architecture in New Mexico. There is also a 15th century Italian vellum illustrated manuscript

Correspondence, constitution, bylaws, questionnaires, newsletters, press releases, and other records, relating to the operations of the national organization and its local chapter; together with publications in a series devoted to the literature of books and librarianship called Beta Phi Mu Chapbook, including Contemporary Book Design (1953) by Ralph Eckerstrom, Fine Binding in America: The Story of Club Bindery (1956) by Elbert and Lawrence Thompson, The Desert Daisy (1957) by H.G. Wells, The Odyssey of a Film-Maker: Robert Flaherty's Story (1960) by Frances Flaherty, Macready's As You Like It (1962) by Charles Shattuck, The Confederate Hundred: A Bibliographic Selection of Confederate Books (1964) by Richard Harwell, and Raking the Historic Coals (1967) by Edward G. Holley

The Minnesota Historical Society Pamphlet Collection contains pamphlets and printed ephemera relating to the binding industry and individual binderies in Minnesota -- A brochure [1910s?] from the Waldorf Bindery Company includes samples of fabrikoid (imitation leather) binding materials

Curriculum vitae -- Artist statement -- Sample pages from https://www.jaytannerbookbinder.com/ -- Materials for thesis presentation, April 20, 2017, Spencer Art Reference Library, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO -- Additional materials and exhibition announcements

These papers pertain to Borsdamm's career as bookbinder and consist primarily of letters received, with some biographical materials, clippings, ephemera, and two photographs of Borsdamm. The bound volume, "Letters of appreciation to John Borsdamm on the occassion of his retirement from Stanford University Press, June 1, 1950," includes letters from J.E. Wallace Sterling, Herbert Hoover, Jessie Knight Jordan, Pedro deLemos (Pedro J. Lemos), William F. Durand, Carol Green Wilson, David S. Jacobson, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and Borsdamm's colleagues at the Press. Of note are letters from Julius A. Quelle and Jessie Dunten Whittern recounting the history of the Press. The papers also include the original design of a phoenix by Nathan Van Patten that was used on the binding Borsdamm did for THE LETTERS OF D.H. LAWRENCE

This account book lists clients' credits and debits for the publishing and bookselling firm of Richardson, Lord, and Holbrook in Boston from 1831 to 1835. It contains entries for customers as far away as Vermont, Philadelphia, New York, and Ohio. Notable accounts include the Boston Post Office, Leuner's Church Music, Walker's Latin Reader, The Young Astronomers, the Boston Atheneum, and the "Social Library No. 1 of Boston". Affixed within are several letters to the proprietors concerning lawsuits and other business matters. Future governor of Vermont Frederick Holbrook was in Boston and involved with the firm from 1831 to 1833, a period covered within this volume