Assorted speeches
Contents
B128/Folder 1: On Being Seventy-Five; Robert Frost and his Printers; The Making of a Printer; The Beginning of Printing in America; Occidental College--Founder's Day April 17, 1942; The Process of Printing; And Now--A Mere 50 Years; Gutenberg and his 26 Lead Soldiers; The Passing of the Royalty; If You Can't be Stubborn, You're Lost: Short Stories; Some Recollections of Sewanee Days More than a Half Century Ago; The Prehistoric Sculptures of Scammon's Lagoon; Books and Memories; A Rush of Memories of Printer's Past; More of the Palmer Family History; Fine Printing--the Los Angeles Tradition; Laguna Verde Imprenta; The Ritchie Family; Book Odds and Book Ends; Growing Up with Lawrence Clark Powell; Bibliography of the Book of François Louis Schmied.
B128/Folder 2: Books and Articles by W. R.; South Pasadena as it Was When I Was Young; Le Grands Pier; The Corruption of the Cow Counties; Books for the Huntington Library; Zzmmmmorano Club Birthday Luncheon; The Arroyo Seco of California; Alice Millard as I Remember Her (5).
B128/Folder 3: When the Sky Blows Off; The Corruption of the Cow Counties; The Platrixizing of E Clampus Vitus; finding aid for part of Ritchie archives at Clark Library (1994, typed); Books & Broadsides; An Exhibition of Works by Ward Ritchie. Laguna Verde Imprenta Years 1975-1993.
B128/Folder 4: Miniature Book magazine, Ward Ritchie Résumé, Laguna Verde Imprenta, Satanick, When Life Was the Future, The Extraordinary Ham Bone, Cinderella at the Type Case, Book Odds and Book Ends, Oral History Program--UCLA 1964; Thoughts on WR, Richard Hoffman, A Miscellany of Five Books I Remember, The Katies, The Brows and the Genesis of a Cook Book, Adrian Wilson, Jacob Israel Zeitlin, Primavera--The Flowering of LA, The Western Books of 1977, Friends for a Lifetime, The Private Press.
B128/Folder 5: The Irrepressible Rockwell Kent, The Loves and Life of Merle Armitage, The Exaltation of the Hand Press, Book Club Printers 1962-1987; WR, A Rush of Memories of Printers Past, Remembrance of Books Past, A Boy Printer with WR, The Legacy of Effie and Charles Palmer, Bookplates and Book Labels, A Requiem for Lawrence Clark Powell, Paris Adventure.
B128/Folder 6:Reflections of Robinson Jeffers, Merle Armitage, Paul Landacre, Jane Grabhorn, Fine Printing--The New Generation in Southern California, Art Deco--The Books of François Louis Schmied.
B128/Folder 7: Some Rambling Recollections, A Maverick in a Printing Office (D'Ambrosio), The Incredible Adventures of a Neophyte Printer, The Education of an Erratic Gourmet, Remembering Joseph Blumenthal, Long Beach State 1991, The Return of A Native, South Pasadena--A Centennial History.
B128/Folder 8: Down the Lane of Books and Memories, In the Beginning There Was a Book, Preface for Western Books Catalog 1989, A Significant Jeffers Discovery, Memories Past of John Cage, Of Books, Friends, and Memories, Edwin Todd, Occidental 1989, The Genesis of a Cook Book, A Ward Ritchie Checklist--Works by and about Jeffers, Fine Printers (mock-up), When I Was Very Young, Louis Adamic, When Jake Was Joyous Young.
B128/F9: A Tale of Two Books, Ward Ritchie: 75; Laguna Beach Library 1983; William Wilcox Robinson, Harry Oliver--Desert Rat, Lawrence Clark Powell Luncheon, Beatrice Warde, François Louis Schmied, Roundabout to Oxford, Lawrence Clark Powell of Southern Pasadena.
B128/Folder 10: Dorothy Wysor Smith, The Beginning of Scripps College Press, The Primavera Press, Book and Printing, Books and Bookmen of Southern California, Some Recollections of Occidental in the 1920's, E Clampus Vitus, Some Books Designed by Ward Ritchie, Books and Articles by Ward Ritchie.
B128/Folder 11: The Art of the Book, Los Angeles Printers--Talk before Roxburghe Club March 13, 1956; When Life Was the Future, Satanick, Laguna Verde Imprenta, Ward Ritchie Résumé, newspaper clippings.
B128/Folder 12: Cinderella at the Type Case, Fine Printing--A New Generation in Southern California, Years Touched with Memories.
B128/Folder 13: How To Become a Printer, 1939; The Professor or Printing, The Fifty Books of 1939; Printing and Printers (2 copies), Review of Oswald's Printing in American for the Zamorano Club, The Design of a Book, The Beginnings of Printing in America, What to Do About Your Christmas Card, Some Old Men who Wanted to Print, The Ward Ritchie Press, A Great Part of the Glory that Printing Rests Upon, Romance of Printing, Dinner Talk with Alexander Hamilton Group at Lockheed, Fine Printing, The Sad Tale of Puffy the Little Fish, The Private Press and the Revival of Printing, The Invention of Printing in China, Hand Press Printing in Southern California.
B128/Folder 14: Occidental College, Founder's Day 1942.
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1996
Creator
- From the Collection: Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996 (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 140 Linear feet (221 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository