Oversize designs and sketches
Contents
The records of each associated press are organized into subseries I.1-I.4. Press and business records that did not clearly state one of the associated presses were organized into subseries I.5-I.7. These three subseries include business records, printing jobs, and manuscripts/typescripts of mixed provenance.
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 217/2 : Original Designs for ANSCR: the alpha-numeric system for classification of recordings, ca. 1969, 25 leaves Box 218/13: Layout sketches for six books. Some correspondence also included for "The Diaries of Paul Klee." Books include: "The Diaries of Paul Klee"; "Los Angeles: A Bibliography of a Metropolis"; "The Several Lives of Paul Fetos, A Hungarian American Odyssey" by John Dodds, 1973; "Johanne Gutenberg, the Wooden Handpress"; "Southern California Local History" by W.W. Robinson; and Kingsport Press' "Transpac." Drawer 33/6: Layout sketches: "Transpac: a history of the great race to Honolulu; together with a short history of the Transpacific Yacht Club and notes on the 10 races to Tahiti" by Jack Smock; and "Two from California" exhibition at the Riverside Art Cener and Museum, 1984. Drawer 33/9 : Layout sketches for "Marin Marprelate, gentleman, satirist, member of Parliament, Puritan." by Leland H. Carlson. San Marino: Huntington Library; "Jack London & the Klondike" by Franklin Walker; and press ephemera from an exhibition of books bound or printed by Cobden-Sanderson, 1933
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository