Oversize prints and ephemera
Scope and Content
The Ward Ritchie Press collection consists primarily of papers ranging from 1928-1996, with the bulk of materials originating from 1930-1970. The collection includes job packets, typescripts, manuscripts, lectures, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, sketches, page and galley proofs, poetry, and some personal items. The "Associated Presses and Business Records" series consists of job packets, printer's overs, manuscripts, typescripts, amd mock-ups that are largely related to Ritchie's work with The Ward Ritchie Press, but also include business records relating to Anderson & Ritchie, Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, and Laguna Verde Imprenta. It also includes assorted typescripts and manuscripts that have an unknown provenance but were collected by Ritchie. The "Biographical and Personal Papers" series includes oral and performed works, personal photographs, gifted artwork, videos of birthday celebrations, and other works collected by Ritchie. The collection of oral and performed works include speeches and lectures given at Zamorano & Roxburghe Club meetings, Clark Library events, and Occidental College award ceremonies. The "Correspondence" series contains letters to noteable figures such as Lawrence Clark Powell, Gloria Stuart, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, and Jake Zeitlin. Since Ritchie had working relationships with many of his friends, the series is composed of a mixture of business and personal correspondence. The "Subject Files" series includes collected items relating to other presses (Black Cat Press, Castle Press), universities (Caltech, Occidental, UCLA), clubs (Zamorano, Rounce & Coffin), and special collection libraries (Huntington Library, Clark Library).
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
General
Box 215/13: Program with introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell; Jeffers, Robinson, "Rock and Hawk", 1928; Armour, Richard, "Joseph A. Foster"; Armour, Richard, "The Scripps Five" Box 216/1 : Calendar - Andrews, Nelson, Whitehead Box 216/7 : Broadside of Kelmscott Manor; printed reproductions of drawings by Sanford Berger Box 216/12 : Pamphlets: Christmas Essay, 1946; Beer Tasting & BBQ event, 1938; Broadsides: "Senator Vest's Tribute to a Dog", "Desert Sky and Clouds" by John C. Van Dyke Box 217/1 : Santa Susana Press, 1988, Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie, includes two photographs?; Ward Ritchie 80th Birthday Broadside (2); Huntington Library Entrance Sign, 1952; 1849-1949 Gold Rush Centennial - William Andrews Clark Library, 1949; Grant, Lester - "The Challenge of Cancer", 1949 (Cover Photographs). Box 217/3 : Nash, John Henry - "A Printer Dreams a Terrible Dance of Death", 1982 (3) Box 217/4 : "Abraham Lincoln to his fellow countrymen" - Public Works Art Project, 1934; L.P. White Co. - "The Councellors of the Privy Council Press… Leo H. Joachim"; Prospectus for "Persian Miniaures" by Laurence Binyon, JV Wilkinson; LA County Commendation, 1994 Box 217/6 : Zeitlin, Jake, "The earliest printing of Alta California", 1938; Occidental College Student Book Collection Contest, 1960; Warren Press, "The dialogues of the Tarquinius Bartolus"; List of books printed on Dard Hunter paper and note to Bill regarding the list, 1978; Paylore, Patricia, "Up in Coconino County...", 1953. Box 217/7 : Various oversized menus Box 217/8: Rounce & Coffin Club 25 Years Later Broadside, signed by W. Grant Dahlstrom, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, and Saul Marks; Ritchie, Ward, "Untitled", 1977 (looks like coffee/paint stains); "from Gutenberg to the Twentieth Century" sheets; Original designs for "Permanent collection: the cookbook of the alliance of the Laguna Beach Art Museum" Box 217/9 : Hackett Newell Co., Village Press announcement; Scripps College, Ward Ritchie Day Proclamation, 1984 Box 217/11 : Letterpress and some of design by Patrick Reagh, offset by Castle Pess; The Studio Press Prospectus/ Edwin and Robert Grabhorn
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository