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Press of the Woolly Whale

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biographical statement

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0025
Overview

The collection contains material by and about Melbert B. Cary Jr., and includes writings, scholarship on type and playing cards, Yale alumni books, photographs, correspindence, as well as writings by Melbert B. Cary Sr.

Dates: 1895 - 1986

Press of the Woolly Whale visitor's book

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0022
Content Description Manuscript visitors' book of the Press of the Woolly Whale, recording visitors to the press from April 25, 1928, through March 28, 1941, who signed in a blank book with a gold-tooled calf binding by Gambinossi, New York. The volume contains approximately 600 signatures, 11 watercolors, 16 pen-and-ink drawings, 6 pencil sketches, 5 mounted photographs and other ephemera (including Guggenheim family bookplates). The first signatures in the volume are by type designer Frederic W. Goudy and his...
Dates: 1928-1941

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Connecticut -- Constitution 1
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Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Playing cards -- Private collections 1
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