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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Ace Books.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1962
Abstract:
Manuscripts for periodicals published by Ace Books and photographs used for illustrations of Secrets, 1937.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- Popular culture.
Confidential confessions.
Daring romances.
Love fiction.
Revealing romances.
Secrets.
Publishers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Popular culture
Business and Industry
Confession stories -- Periodicals.
Love -- Fiction.
Love stories -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular literature -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Western stories -- Periodicals.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Van Sinderen, Adrian, 1887-1963.
Inclusive Dates:
1919-1963
Abstract:
Papers of the American corporation executive, philanthropist, author. Collection includes manuscript books, essays, and speeches; notebooks. Also, annual reports and other publications of the American Horse Shows Association and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Type of Material:
Annual reports.
Essays.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Philanthropists.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Authors, American.
Philanthropists -- United States.
Upper class -- United States.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Swallow, Alan, 1915-1966.
Inclusive Dates:
1934-1964
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, poet, publisher. Correspondence (1942-1964); manuscript poems and essays; and published materials, including articles and clippings by and about Swallow, book reviews, poems, and stories by Swallow, and photographs. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, Weldon Kees, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, and others.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Books.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Journals (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Poets.
Publishers.
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Poets, American.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
American Book Company.
Inclusive Dates:
1801-1971
Abstract:
The American Book Company was formed in 1890 by consolidation of Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes and Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Iveson, Blakeman and Co. The collection includes the records of the company which manufactured books and educational materials in several locations in the United States, with head offices in New York City; the book list embraced all subjects at all educational levels. The collection is primarily textbooks, including several editions as far back as 1840 of the McGuffey readers; also included are business records and illustrations.
Type of Material:
Annual reports.
Artwork.
Books.
Calendars (documents)
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Galley proofs.
Illustrations.
Maps (documents)
Paintings (visual works)
Photographs.
Primers (books)
Textbooks.
Watercolors (paintings)
Subject:
McGuffey readers.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Arithmetic -- Study and teaching.
Education, Elementary -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Education, Primary -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Education, Secondary -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Educational publishing -- United States.
Geography -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
History -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Mathematics -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Music -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Penmanship.
Primers -- 1800-1870.
Primers -- 1870-1950.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Readers (Elementary)
Readers (Secondary)
Science -- Textbooks -- Specimens.
Textbooks -- Publishing.
Textbooks -- United States.
Vocational education -- Textbooks -- Specimens.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Approach magazine.
Inclusive Dates:
1913-1968
Abstract:
American literary journal. Collection contains editorial files, correspondence with authors and contributors, copies of other "little magazines," indexes to APPROACH, more. List of names given in subject headings below is not comprehensive.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Reviews (documents)
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
American literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals.

Creator:
Arents, George, 1875-1960.
Inclusive Dates:
1891-1974
Abstract:
Collection of Christmas cards accumulated by George and Lena Arents, featuring notable figures from American arts and letters.
Type of Material:
Christmas cards.
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Art -- Illustrators
Authors, American.
Christmas cards -- Collectors and collecting.
Christmas cards -- Specimens.
Poets, American.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Wainhouse, Austryn.
Inclusive Dates:
1934-2007
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts and memorabilia of the American author and translator of de Sade.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Merlin.
Authors.
Translators.
Publishers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- French
Publishing, printing and book arts
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
French literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Publishers and publishing -- Vermont.
Small presses -- Vermont.
Translations -- Publishing.
Translators.

Creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Inclusive Dates:
1782-1782
Abstract:
Promissory note printed and signed by Benjamin Franklin, recording a 1782 loan from the French government to the United States.
Type of Material:
Promissory notes.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
16e Arrondissement (Paris, France) -- History.
Ambassadors.
Politics, government and public administration
Publishing, printing and book arts

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891.
Inclusive Dates:
1843-1917
Abstract:
The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Subject:
Correspondents.
Artists.
Editors.
Historians.
Illustrators.
Art -- Illustrators
Historians
Publishing, printing and book arts
Artists -- United States.
Editors -- United States.
Historians -- United States.
History publishing -- United States.
Illustrators -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

Creator:
Watson, William, 1917-2006.
Inclusive Dates:
1950-2006
Abstract:
Bill Watson and his wife Marie were long-time "artists in residence" for Paradise Press, a small private press owned by Hal Leader in Buffalo, New York. The collection includes printed material from Paradise Press as well as a few items from Watson's previous press, Wm. J. Keller, Inc., a small amount of biographical material, an essay by Watson on Unitarian Universalism, and two books.
Type of Material:
Books.
Broadsides (notices)
Leaflets.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Quotations (texts)
Subject:
Publishers.
Printers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Publishers and publishing.
Small presses -- New York (State)

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Syracuse University. -- Libraries. -- Special Collections Research Center.
Inclusive Dates:
2019-2019
Abstract:
Teaching collection, with models and other materials for instruction on the history and techniques of book production.
Type of Material:
Models (representations)
Specimens.
Subject:
Publishing, printing and book arts
Bookbinding -- History.
Bookbinding -- Specimens.
Bookbinding -- Study and teaching.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1760-1760
Abstract:
Small box or case made to look like a book of devotionals
Type of Material:
Accessory boxes.
Subject:
France -- 18th century.
Literature -- French
Publishing, printing and book arts
Books -- Specimens.
Books in art.
Fashion -- History.
Realism in art.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Brandt & Brandt.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1957
Abstract:
Literary agency. Collection contains correspondence files for three American authors: Samuel Hopkins Adams, John Gunther, and Harry Hopkins.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Literary agents.
Literature -- American Fiction
Publishing, printing and book arts
Authors and publishers.
Literary agents -- United States.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1965-1970
Abstract:
Materials include newsletters, newsclippings, brochures and other types of ephemeral materials on the subjects of nuclear disarmament, right wing Christianity, and the Vietnam War.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Ephemera.
Fliers (printed matter)
Leaflets.
Newsletters.
Subject:
Activism and social reform
Publishing, printing and book arts
Christian literature.
Printed ephemera -- United States -- Specimens.
Protest movements -- 1960-1980.
Nuclear disarmament.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957,
Inclusive Dates:
1900-1900
Abstract:
Letter (signed) from book designer Bruce Rogers at Houghton Mifflin to a Mr. Vincent.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Publishing, printing and book arts
Book design -- United States.
Book designers -- United States.

Creator:
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.
Inclusive Dates:
1975-1975
Abstract:
Sketches, drawings, notes, galleys and a set of limited-edition lithographs related to the production of Buckminter Fuller's TETRASCROLL: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Cosmic Fairy Tale.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Sketches.
Mock-ups.
Lithographs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Galley proofs.
Subject:
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. -- Tetrascroll.
Authors.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
Art and science.
Artists' books -- United States.
Architects -- United States.
Geometry in literature.
Inventors -- United States.
Science in literature.
Synergetics.

Creator:
Central City Steam Printing House.
Inclusive Dates:
1850-1850
Abstract:
A wide range of printed material, produced presumably as samples by the Central City Printing Company of Syracuse, New York.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Announcements.
Billheads.
Business cards.
Circulars (fliers)
Dance cards.
Order forms.
Programs (documents)
Tickets.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Publishers and printers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Publishing, printing and book arts
Advertising cards -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Business enterprises -- Syracuse (N.Y.) -- 19th century.
Graphic design -- Specimens.
Printing -- Specimens.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Madison, Charles Allan.
Inclusive Dates:
1966-1968
Abstract:
Papers of the American author. Manuscripts of Book publishing in America, The owl among colophons, and Yiddish literature.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Authors.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Authors, American.

Creator:
Pont, Charles E. (Charles Ernest), 1898-1971.
Inclusive Dates:
1932-1960
Abstract:
Book dummies, metal and wood printing plates, metal type, and assorted miscellany relating to American printer and type designer Frederic Goudy, collected and/or created by artist and author Charles E. Pont.
Type of Material:
Dummies (printed matter)
Photographs.
Printing plates.
Type specimens (documents)
Typefaces (Type forms)
Subject:
Printers.
Type designers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Graphic design (Typography) -- United States.
Printing -- United States -- History.
Type and type-founding -- History.
Type designers -- United States.

Creator:
Jenkins, Chester.
Inclusive Dates:
2016-2017
Abstract:
Drawings and presentation regarding the revival of Goudy's Sherman typeface for Syracuse University.
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Presentations (communicative events)
Subject:
Type designers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Graphic design (Typography) -- United States.
Type and type-founding -- History.
Type designers -- United States.