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Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1205
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of ledgers, photographs, catalogs, promotional material and other miscellaneous items from the Doubleday Brothers and Company which produced blank books, forms for schools, banks and governments and stationery and also printed and sold office supplies and furniture. The company began in 1898 and left Kalamazoo in 2005. It exists as a digital printing company called Fidlar Doubleday and is located in Iowa.
Dates:
1925-1973
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_fpephemera
Abstract
Ephemera and documents from numerous American fine presses of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Samples of presswork from Arion, Bergamot, Black Sparrow, Bloodroot, Janus, Kat Ran, Ninja, Sutton Hoo and many more presses.
Dates:
1973-2005; Majority of material found within 1990-2005
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_ivesstpress
Abstract
Collected papers, samples and other materials of Barbara Cash (1930-1997) printer and designer at Ives St. Press (Connecticut and Maine). The collection contains correspondence with authors and colleagues, designs for broadsides and books, business records of the Ives Street and Cellador Presses, professional association meeting and contest materials, and materials for Cash's MFA thesis on fine presses in New England.
Dates:
1979-2001; Majority of material found within Bulk 1981-1992; Other: Date acquired: 2002-04-10
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4136
Scope and Contents
The collection composed of material relating to the publication Kalamazoo Lost and Found written by Lynn Houghton and Pamela O’Connor, and published by the Kalamazoo Historic Preservation Commission in 2001. The collection contains research on individual sites included in the book and material that relates to the production and publication of the book designed to be a fundraiser for the Commission, a city-advisory board for the City of Kalamazoo. The majority of material in this...
Dates:
1994-2006
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_marchstreet
Abstract
Editorial office archive of March Street Press including correspondence, typescripts, proofs, copyright documents, photographs, cover art and ephemera. Also contains issues of Parting Gifts magazine and copies of books published by the press.
Dates:
1987-2009; Majority of material found within Bulk 1992-2009; Other: Date acquired: 2012
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract
Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti...
Dates:
1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004
