Houghton Library collection of printing ephemera
Overview
Printing ephemera from individual printers and grouped in categories.
Dates
- Creation: 1897-2018
Creator
- Shinola Press (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Extent
2.75 linear feet (11 boxes)Broadsides, prospectuses, keepsakes, pamphlets, and printed books
Arrangement
Minimally processed; in alphabetic order by printer.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Various gifts on various dates. Specific information is given at the file level where known.
Processing Information
Processed by Melanie Wisner, 2018.
Cultural context
Creator
- Shinola Press (Organization)
- Ruffin, Katherine McCanless (Person)
- Marsolais Press (Organization)
- Russell Maret (Firm) (Organization)
- Houghton Library (Collector, Organization)
Subject
- Firefly Press (Organization)
- Title
- Houghton Library, collector. Houghton Library collection of printing ephemera, 1897-2018 (MS Typ 1222): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Date
- 2018 August 9
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02988
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.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
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