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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
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Printed Pages from European Literature
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0074
Dates:
1491-1666
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Raymond Kane Collection of Progressive Proof Books
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0020
Overview
The Raymond Kane Collection of Progressive Proof Books spans the period from 1890 through 1939 and contains forty-two books holding progressive proof prints made with lithographic stones prepared for chromolithographed package labels. The books were kept in stone storage rooms as records of the color separations for jobs printed by four firms: Schmidt & Company, Heywood, Strasser & Voight, American Lithographic Company, and Consolidated Lithographing Corporation. Labels include those...
Dates:
1890-1939
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Richard Poulin and Douglas Morris papers
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0179
Overview
The Richard Poulin and Douglas Morris papers document their role as graphic designers, authors, and artists. They co-founded Poulin + Morris, Inc. in 1989 where their broad range of projects awarded them many accolades in the industry.
Dates:
1960 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1991 - 2015
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Rimon: A Contemporary Collection of Art and Literature
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0174
Scope and Contents
Rimon Journal for Art and Literature was a Jewish cultural magazine published between 1922 and 1924 in Berlin, Germany by Mark and Rachel Wischnitzer of Rimon Publication. Concurrently, the Yiddish language magazine Milgroim was published in a similar format. Rimon and Milgroym means "pomegranate" in Hebrew and Yiddish, respectively. Only one volume of six magazines was published. Franzisca Baruch and Ernst Böhm designed magazine covers for both editions. The articles discussed culture, art...
Dates:
1922 - 1924
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Rob Roy Kelly collection
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0098
Overview
The Rob Roy Kelly collection contains the personal papers, wood type specimens, awards and certificates belonging to the graphic designer.
Dates:
1925-2004
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Robert G. Hacker collection of engraving tools
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0036
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of tools used for hand-finishing or retouching metal photo-engraving plates, especially halftone plates, before printing, a routine process employed in the 1890s through the 1950s. The collection includes 44 wood-handled scribe awls, gravers, burnishers, and other tools enclosed in a cloth wrapper outfitted with pockets; a copper and wood plate holder; and a sand-filled leather cushion set in a wood frame, all undated. Also present are a Waterhouse stop, circa 1890...
Dates:
circa 1890-1940
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Robert L. Leslie collection of Hermann Zapf calligraphy
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0066
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twenty-six letterform studies, poems, and designs for book title pages, spine titles, and a dust jacket rendered in pencil and ink on paper by German calligrapher Hermann Zapf. Also present are two early sketches for his typefaces Melior and Optima, and seven printed sheets of alphabets. Zapf mounted each example on paper sheets measuring 29 x 20 cm. before presenting them to his friend Robert L. Leslie; the collection is accompanied by a presentation slip signed...
Dates:
1940 - 1958
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Rochester Club of Printing House Craftsmen Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0137
Overview
Materials relating to the Rochester Club of Printing House Craftsman.
Dates:
1920-2008; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1996
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Rochester Public Library Book Arts Ephemera
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: CSC-0068
Overview
The collection consists of a variety of printed ephemera by and about the American private press printers Frederic W. Goudy, Earl H. Emmons, and Elbert Hubbard.
Dates:
1906-1942
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection