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Series I: Organizational Files, 1974-2010
Series V: General Files, 1974-1998
Series VI: Archived Web Site, 2013-present

American Printing History Association records, 1972-2018

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Series IV: Publications, 1975-2002

This series contains records related to the publication of APHA's journal, newsletter, and other publications. The majority of the records consist of correspondence and editorial files related to submissions to the newsletter or the journal, but there is also some material related to book reviews, copyright, finances, printing, and proposed projects.

APHA's main publications, the APHA Newsletter and Printing History, are separately cataloged and filed with the Graphic Arts book collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Subseries IV.1: Catherine Brody, 1975-1985

Brody served as the editor for the APHA newsletter. Her files include correspondence on new items submitted for inclusion in the newsletter.


Box 11 Folder 8 APHA, 1978-1984


Box 13 Folder 1 Correspondence on the APHA newsletter, 1982

Box 13 Folder 2 APHA, 1977-1978

Box 13 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1978-1979

Box 13 Folder 4 APHA, 1975-1982

Box 13 Folder 6 APHA Correspondence, 1981 December

Box 13 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1981-1982

Box 13 Folder 8 APHA, 1975-1976

Box 13 Folder 10 APHA, 1983-1984

Box 13 Folder 11 Untitled, 1982

Box 13 Folder 12 APHA, 1984

Box 13 Folder 19 Book Reviews, 1981-1982

Box 13 Folder 20 APHA, 1985

Subseries IV.2: Printing History, 1978-2009

consists mainly of correspondence and editorial files related to submissions. These records were kept by Anna Lou Ashby and other editors ofPrinting History. The files also include information on copyright, finances, ideas, printing arrangements, and the origins ofPrinting History.

General Files


Box 44 Folder 15 2003-2009


Box 9 Folder 3 Copyright, 1984

Correspondence

Articles, Correspondence on


Box 4 Folder 4 Article Solicitations, 1983-1986

Box 4 Folder 5 Eckman, James--Chicago type foundry #17, 1986

Box 4 Folder 6 #17 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1987

Box 4 Folder 7 Profile Kono, 1986

(Takashi Kono)

Box 4 Folder 8 Stoddard, 1986-1987

(#17)

Box 4 Folder 9 to 10 Alterman--Tibetan Orthography, 1985, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 12 Elizabeth Harris--Printing for the Blind #16, 1985-1986

Box 4 Folder 13 Donald Krummel--Music Printing #16, 1985-1986

Box 4 Folder 15 Lily Chia-jen Kecskes--Chinese Ink and Inkmaking #15, 1985-1986

Box 4 Folder 16 Roderick Cave, 1988

(#20)

Box 4 Folder 17 Book Reviews #15, 1985

Box 4 Folder 18 Virginia Smith--Longevity and Legibility #15, 1985-1986

Box 4 Folder 19 Sybille Fraser--Underground Printing #15, 1985

Box 4 Folder 20 Susan M. Allen, 1987

Box 4 Folder 21 #13, 1985


Box 9 Folder 4 Environment, 1988

Box 9 Folder 5 Review Copies #17-18, 1986

Box 9 Folder 6 #17, 1986-1987

Box 9 Folder 7 John Lent--The Stockdale Women of Bermuda, 1986-1988

Box 9 Folder 8 Untitled, 1984

(Correspondence on the use of Kellogg's logo for an article)

Box 9 Folder 9 August Brunsman--Wright and Wright, 1987-1988

Box 9 Folder 10 Gay Walker--Meriden Gravure and the U.S. Government, 1988

Box 9 Folder 13 Reviewer on Peterson's Article for #17, 1987

Box 9 Folder 14 Dr. Leslie's Obituary--#18, 1987

Box 9 Folder 15 David Woodward--Map Printing--#16, 1985-1986

Box 9 Folder 16 Pamela Petro, 1987

Box 9 Folder 17 Stephen Saxe, 1989

(Comment on Fredric Brewer)

Box 9 Folder 18 Hope Mayo, 1987

Box 9 Folder 19 Tanselle #18, 1987

Box 9 Folder 20 Harmsen #18, 1986

Box 9 Folder 21 Victor Margolin--Paul Theobald & Company, 1986

Box 9 Folder 22 Sue Allen, 1987

Other Correspondence


Box 3 Folder 23 General, 1978

Box 3 Folder 24 to 27 Number One-Number Four, 1978-1980, (4 Folders)


Box 25 Folder 1 Number 4, 1979-1980

Box 25 Folder 2 to 4 Number 6-Number 9, 1981-1983 June (3 Folders), 1981-1983 June

Box 25 Folder 5 Number 11, 1984

Box 25 Folder 6 Books Not Reviews, circa, 1982-1984


Box 26 Folder 1 to 5 Number 12-Number 16, 1984-1986

Box 26 Folder 6 Current, 1983-1986


Box 4 Folder 11 Press (Leonid), 1986

(on the printing of #16)

Box 4 Folder 14 Pizzo, Tony #15, 1986

(Meriden-Stinehour Press on printing issues for the journal)


Box 9 Folder 23 Correspondence with the Printer, 1987-1988


Box 26 Folder 7 Miscellaneous--Correspondence, 1991-1998


Box 3 Editor's Files

(Arranged by chronological by editor)

Anna Lou Ashby Files, 1978-1984


Box 10 Folder 7 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1983-1984

Box 10 Folder 8 Articles Not Accepted, 1983

Box 10 Folder 9 Miscellaneous for Finding Reviews, 1981-1982, Undated, 1981-1982, Undated

Box 10 Folder 10 #10 (December 1983), 1982-1983

Box 10 Folder 11 #11, 1984

Box 10 Folder 12 #12, 1984-1985

Box 10 Folder 13 #2, 1978-1980

(Book reviews)

Box 10 Folder 14 Books to Consider for Review, 1978-1980

Box 10 Folder 15 #3, 1978-1979

Box 10 Folder 16 APHA Reviews First Issues, 1978

Box 10 Folder 17 #5, 1978

Renée Weber Files, 1985-1989


Box 40 Folder 1 Award, undated

Box 40 Folder 2 Baber Multi-disc reader, 1985-1986

Box 40 Folder 3 Book Reviewers, 1986-1989

Correspondence

Box 40 Folder 4 General, 1986-1989

Box 40 Folder 5 Periodical Indices, 1985-1886

Box 40 Folder 6 Folsom, Darryl S., 1986

Box 40 Folder 7 Paper Samples, undated

Box 40 Folder 8 Photographs #14, circa, 1986

Box 40 Folder 9 to 11 Possible Reprints and Reprints, 1980s (3 Folders), 1980s

Box 40 Folder 12 Possibilities, 1985

Box 40 Folder 13 Reproductions, 1980s

David Pankow Files, 1986-1997

Box 40 Folder 14 General, 1990

Box 40 Folder 15 to 16 Advertising, 1991-1992 (2 Folders), 1991-1992

Box 40 Folder 17 Article Development, 1991

Box 40 Folder 18 Articles Inquiries and Responses, 1991-1993

Box 40 Folder 19 Call for Papers, 1990

Box 40 Folder 20 to 22 Correspondence--General, 1993-1995 (3 Folders), 1993-1995

Box 40 Folder 23 Crook, Stephen. Correspondence, 1991

(APHA Executive Secretary)

Box 40 Folder 24 Form Letters, 1986-1989, undated, 1986-1989, undated

Box 40 Folder 25 Letters to the Editor, 2000

Box 40 Folder 26 Rinehart, William D. "Newspaper Revolution Through Offset" APHA Conference Paper,, 1990

Box 40 Folder 27 Offprint Rates for Printing History, 1990

Box 40 Folder 28 Tichenor, Irene. Correspondence on Paper, 1991

Box 40 Folder 29 Miscellaneous, 1992-1997, undated, 1992-1997, undated

Editorial Files, Arranged By Issue

Box 40 Folder 30 #17, circa, 1987, 14 5 ¼" floppy disks

Box 40 Folder 31 #18, circa, 1987, 4 5 ¼" floppy disks

Box 40 Folder 32 #19, circa, 1988, 4 5 ¼" floppy disks and one 3 ½" floppy disk

Box 40 Folder 33 #20, circa, 1988, 5 5 ¼" floppy disks

#21, circa, 1989

Box 40 Folder 34 General, circa, 1989, 4 5 ¼" floppy disks

Box 40 Folder 35 Tichenor--De Vinne, 1987-1989

Box 40 Folder 36 #22, circa, 1989, 2 5 ¼" floppy disks

#28, circa, 1992

Box 40 Folder 37 to 38 Larson, Jennifer. Review (2 Folders)

Box 40 Folder 39 Rummonds, Gabriel. Review

#29, circa, 1993

Box 40 Folder 40 to 41 General and Production Correspondence (2 Folders)

Box 40 Folder 42 Benton, Megan

Box 40 Folder 43 to 44 Berger, Sidney. Review (2 Folders)

Box 40 Folder 45 Bodger, Lowell. Review

Box 40 Folder 46 Dreyfus, John. Review

Box 40 Folder 47 to 48 Hanson, David A. (2 Folders)

Box 40 Folder 49 Johnston, Alastair

Box 40 Folder 50 Markham, Sandra

Box 40 Folder 51 Needham, Paul

Box 40 Folder 52 Saxe, Stephen

#30, circa, 1993

Box 40 Folder 53 General

Box 40 Folder 54 Cover

Box 40 Folder 55 Editorial

Box 40 Folder 56 Photographs

Box 40 Folder 57 Barrett, Timothy

Box 40 Folder 58 Cyr, Paul


Box 41 Folder 1 Fletcher, H. George

Box 41 Folder 2 Harris, Elizabeth

Box 41 Folder 3 to 4 Huntner, Martin (2 Folders)

#31-32, circa, 1994

Box 41 Folder 5 to 7 General (3 Folders)

Box 41 Folder 8 Carr, Daniel. Review

Box 41 Folder 9 Cost, Patricia

Box 41 Folder 10 to 11 McGuinne, Dermot (2 Folders)

Box 41 Folder 12 to 16 Parker, Mike (5 Folders)

Box 41 Folder 17 Saxe, Stephen

Box 41 Folder 18 Tracy, Walter

Box 41 Folder 19 Wallis, Lawrence

#33, circa, 1995


Box 42 Folder 1 General

Box 42 Folder 2 Belanger, Terry

Box 42 Folder 3 McCorison, Marcus

Box 42 Folder 4 Taylor, Tom

Box 42 Folder 5 Winship, Michael

#34, circa, 1995

Box 42 Folder 6 to 7 General (2 Folders)

Box 42 Folder 8 Printing History Index for Issues #1-32

Box 42 Folder 9 Dane, Joseph

Box 42 Folder 10 Green, James

Box 42 Folder 11 Leuthold, Steven

Box 42 Folder 12 Pomeroy, Jane

#47, circa, 2003

Box 42 Folder 13 Harlan, Robert

Box 42 Folder 14 Holliday/Johnston/Bridges

Box 42 Folder 15 Kelly, Jerry. Review

#48, circa, 2005

Box 42 Folder 16 General

Box 42 Folder 17 Front Matter

Box 42 Folder 18 Hanson, David

Box 42 Folder 19 Whitesell, David

Box 42 Folder 20 Weimerskirch, Phillip

#49, circa, 2006

Box 42 Folder 21 General

Box 42 Folder 22 to 23 Creesy, Chuck (2 Folders)


Box 43 Folder 1 to 2 Hugill-Fontanel, Amelia. Arts et Metiers Graphiques (AMG) (2 Folders)

Box 43 Folder 3 Thomson, Ellen Mazur

#50, circa, 2009

Box 43 Folder 4 General

Box 43 Folder 28 Finances, 1977

(Preliminary Budget)

Box 43 Folder 29 Moretus Press, 1977

(Publishing agreement drafts)

Box 43 Folder 30 Origins, 1977-1979

(Report of journal committee; program for the journal's launch reception)


Box 4 Folder 3 Ideas, 1983-1984

Subseries IV.3: Other Publications and Projects, 1975-2010

consists of general material and material related to publication projects to Printing History. The subseries includes a copy of theDirectory of Founding Members, as well as records related to its copyright. There are also records related to the publication ofAmerican Proprietary Typefaces,Spiral Press BibliographyandD.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka, 1908-1941. There is also a grant application and a proposal related to a unpublished project entitled,Publishing and Printing History: A Guide to Manuscript Resources in the United States.

General


Box 44 Folder 32 Publications, 1998-2010


Box 26 Folder 4 American Proprietary Types, 1995-1999

American Proprietary Typefaces, circa, 1998


Box 43 Folder 5 to 8 General (4 Folders)

(Includes figures)


Mapcase 14-O-2 Figures #42, 52-60

(Additional figures are filed with the general Folders.)


Box 43 Folder 9 Agner, Dwight

Box 43 Folder 10 Argetsinger, Mark

Box 43 Folder 11 to 12 Baker, Cathleen A. (2 Folders)

Box 43 Folder 13 Duensing, Paul Hyden

Box 43 Folder 14 Hutner, Martin

Box 43 Folder 15 Johnson, Herbert

Box 43 Folder 16 Kelly, Jerry

Box 43 Folder 17 Kristensen, John

Box 43 Folder 18 Reading, W. Gay

Box 43 Folder 19 Thomson, Susan Otis

Directory of Founding Members


Box 12 Folder 13 Directory of Founding Members, 1975


Box 2 Folder 16 Copyright, 1976

APHA Newsletter


Box 44 Folder 37 2000-2009


Box 39 Folder 1 2001-2005

(from Board Secretary and newsletter editor Jane Siegel)

Publishing and Printing History: A Guide to Manuscript Resources in the United States


Box 3 Folder 31 Proposal, circa, 1980


Box 5 Folder 9 APHA/NEH, 1981


Box 26 Folder 5 Ruzicka/Updike, 1996-1999

(This is D.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka, 1908-1941.)

Box 26 Folder 6 Spiral Press Bibliography, 2002