Rosamond B. Loring collection of printed endpapers
Overview
The collection consists chiefly of printed endpapers and a small group of book jackets collected by Rosamund B. Loring.
Dates
- 1900-1950
- Majority of material found within 1920-1941
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Access requires the permission of the Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Examination is by appointment with the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Copyright:
Reproductions for publication must be ordered through Houghton Library from Harvard College Library Imaging Services. Permission to publish or distribute images of papers must be sought from the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Extent
34 linear feet (28 boxes [17 flat boxes, 11 portfolio boxes])This collection consists of printed endpapers or endleaves which were removed by Rosamond B. Loring from twentieth century commercial editions. In addition, the collection also includes a few printed book jackets.
The endpapers attached to the pieces of cardbaord were mounted in this manner by Loring herself. The annotations in ink on the mounts are in her hand.
Biographical / Historical
Rosamond Bowditch Loring (1889-1950) was a maker, collector, and historian of decorated papers. She was the author of Marbled papers (1933); Decorated book papers (1942; 2nd ed., with additional material, 1952; 4th ed., with additional material, 2007);"Colored Paste Papers", The New Colophon 2/5 (January 1949): 33-40; Marbled and Paste Papers: Rosamond Loring's Recipe Book [facsimile ed.] (2007).
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Printed endpapers
- ___A. Small mounted, identified
- ___B. Small mounted, unidentified
- ___C. Large mounted, identified
- ___D. Large mounted, unidentified
- ___E. Unmounted, identified
- ___F. Unmounted, unidentified
- II. Book jackets
Physical Location
Lamont Map Room
Immediate Source of Acquisition
52L-1001. Bequest of Rosamund B. Loring; received: 1952.
Processing Information
Processed by: Alexis Dinniman with the assistance of Jennifer Lyons.
Processing Information
This finding aid was revised in 2022 to address potentially harmful descriptive language. During that revision, various titles of items were adjusted in December 2022 to humanize and improve the description of indigenous people represented in these materials. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.
Processing Information
This finding aid was revised in 2023 to address outdated and harmful descriptive language. During that revision, contextualizing processing notes were added to the description of one item. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.
- Title
- Loring, Rosamond B. (Rosamond Bowditch), 1889-1950. Rosamond B. Loring collection of printed endpapers, 1900-1950: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02019
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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