Oversize prints and broadsides
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 218/3 : Print of "The Boat" by Peter Blume (removed from Ward Ritchie's portfolio of "The Club") Box 218/4 : Two prints: A photographic print signed "padilla"; "Paul Landacre: Wood Engravings" Box 218/5 : Five broadsides: "A Letter from Robinson Jeffers" by Kerwin and Dorothy Whitnah and Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott; "Twelve Alphabetik Images in Colour" (David Kindersley); "Goldmeter, the Gold Seekers' Guide"; "Chinese Whisper," Hamlet's soliloquy translated from French by Voltaire and retranslated into English by "Many Hands"; an excerpt from the Rule of Saint Benedict printed in 1969 by Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Box 218/6 : One delicate pieces of art: print of an 1850 drawing by H.M.T. Powell, titled "Pueblo de Los Angeles..." by the Grabhorn Press Box 218/7 : Three posters/pieces of art: One is a poster for a 1963/1964 retrospective of Jacques Lipchitz's artwork, listing partiicpating museums; another is titled "Southwest Indian Designs" and features hand-drawn (then printed) designs and symbols used by various tribes; the third is a pamphlet for "An Exhibition of American Design, The Lakeside Press Galleries" Box 218/8 : One large empty envelope labeled "Menus for Sylvia at Christmas" and "Y+R [illegible]"; one large stip of paper reading "Ward Ritchie, Printer - A 75th Birthday Salute"; and one boradside for the 1982 International Antiquarian Book Fair Box 218/9 : Two copies of "A Prospectus Giving Particulars and Specimen Pages of the Bruce Rogers World Bible" Drawer 34/2 : "Boat Canyon, Laguna Beach" by Bennett Bradbury Drawer 33/2 : Charts of the hisory of printing in Europe and America Drawer 33/3 : Broadside: "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals..." from 'The Outermost House' by Henry Benson, 1977 Drawer 33/5 : "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" by Walt Whitman; and "Powell's annual schanppsguzzle"
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository