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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Typ 1267

Department of Printing and Graphic Arts announcement records

Overview

Promotional materials for Houghton Library's Department of Printing & Graphic Arts lectures and exhibitions.

Dates

  • Creation: 1940-1999

Creator

Language of Materials

In English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.

Extent

.79 linear feet (1 box)

Includes promotional announcements for lectures, exhibitions, and other events hosted by the Department of Printing & Graphic Arts. One small printing plate and several printing blocks are also included.

Biographical / Historical

The Department of Printing & Graphic Arts is one of Houghton Library's areas of collecting. It includes artifacts from all periods illustrating the book arts and historical development of the book, whether manuscript or printed.

Arrangement

Collection is minimally processed. Materials are loosely arranged in four series: Exhibition Announcements; Lecture Announcements; Printin Plate; and Printing Blocks.

Physical Location

Harvard Depository

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2019MH-42. Department of Printing & Graphic Arts internal files, Houghton Library in 2019.

Processing Information

Processed by Magdaline Lawhorn, 2019.

Title
Houghton Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts announcement records, 1940-1999 (MS Typ 1267): Guide.
Status
completed
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Date
2019 April 17
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou03157

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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