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.
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
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:
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:
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.
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)
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.
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:
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.