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Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1941

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

125. Melbert B. Cary, Jr., circa 1935

 File — Box-folder 6.136
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates: circa 1935
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / <corpname>Press of the Woolly Whale</corpname> Collection / Series I: Publications and Production Files, <unitdate>1928-1941</unitdate>

Al Davis Interview digital audio recordings

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: RITArc-0635
Overview

Digital audio recording of an interview with Al Davis. Al Davis was known as "Mr. RIT" for his devotion to the Institute. He served as vice president in the 1960s and 1970s and played a key role in shaping RIT's future by helping to raise the funds to build a new campus in Henrietta. The collection includes parts three and four of the interview. Parts one and two of the interview are currently missing.

Dates: 1997-1997
Found in: RIT Archives

Continental Typefounders Association scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0024
Overview

Six bound volumes containing prospectuses, advertisements, letterhead, announcements, printed type specimens, pamphlets, circular letters, price lists, press clippings, off-prints, photographs, and some correspondence, documenting the first decade of the firm Continental Typefounders Association.

Dates: 1925 - 1936
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Frederic W. Goudy collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0008
Scope and Contents The Frederic W. Goudy collection contains materials from 1867 through 1964, with the bulk of the papers dated between 1920 and 1947.This collection contains materials related to the life of printer, typographer, and type designer Frederic W. Goudy includes print items, proofs, manuscripts, type patterns and drawings, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and realia.Items of note include photographs of the Goudys in their home and workshop at Marlborough,...
Dates: 1867-1964; Majority of material found within circa 1920-1947
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Kelmscott-Goudy Albion Press, 1891

 Item
Overview

The Kelmscott-Goundy Albion Press was manufactured by Hopkinson and Cope in 1891. The Albion style of press was invented by Richard Whittaker Cope sometime around 1820. This particular Albion press has a long and well-documented history, including formerly being owned by famous figures such as William Morris and Frederic W. Goudy.

Dates: 1891
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / Cary Printing Technology collection / Printing Presses / Hand Presses

Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, circa 1933

 File — Box-folder 10.175
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates: circa 1933
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / <corpname>Press of the Woolly Whale</corpname> Collection / Series II: Other Papers, <unitdate>1933-1972</unitdate>

Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, 1935-1937

 File — Box-folder 10.176
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates: 1935-1937
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / <corpname>Press of the Woolly Whale</corpname> Collection / Series II: Other Papers, <unitdate>1933-1972</unitdate>

Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, 1938-1941

 File — Box-folder 10.177
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates: 1938-1941
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / <corpname>Press of the Woolly Whale</corpname> Collection / Series II: Other Papers, <unitdate>1933-1972</unitdate>

Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust records

 Collection — Box 1-89
Identifier: CSC-0011
Overview

The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust records span the lifetime of the trust, 1968 through 2010, and document the grants given by the Trust, as well as all administrative activities.

Dates: 1897-2010; Majority of material found within 1968 - 2009
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

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
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 9
Archival Record 5
 
Subject
Correspondence 3
Dummies (printed matter) 3
Photographic prints 3
Prospectuses (Bookselling) 3
Type specimens 3
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Announcements 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century 2
Ephemera 2
Mock-ups 2
Printers -- New York (N.Y.) 2
Printers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century 2
Printing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century 2
Proofs (prints by function) 2
Publishers and publishing -- United States 2
Type and type-founding -- United States -- History -- 20th century 2
Booklets 1
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- New York 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Connecticut -- Constitution 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government 1
Endowments -- New York 1
Fund raising -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Galley proofs 1
Gouaches (paintings) 1
Grants 1
Graphic arts -- United States 1
Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Greeting cards 1
Hand presses - England - History 1
Illustrations 1
Interviews 1
Invitations 1
Oral histories 1
Paintings (visual works) 1
Playing cards -- Private collections 1
Printers—United States 1
Printing -- Specimens 1
Printing presses - England 1
Printing--United States--History--20th century 1
Proofs (printed matter) 1
Roman type -- Specimens 1
Scrapbooks 1
Stencils (tools) 1
Type and type-founding 1
Type and type-founding -- Design. 1
Type and type-founding -- Specimens 1
Type and type-founding -- United States -- Specimens 1
Type designers 1
Typefaces (type forms) 1
Village Press 1
Visitors' books 1
Wood engravings (prints) 1
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