Rounce & Coffin Club Collection
Scope and Content
This collection contains papers and printed ephemera created for members of the Rounce & Coffin Club. It includes items related to administration and activities of the club (including members lists, bylaws, photographs, correspondence, and other items); announcements and judging materials for their annual Western Books Exhibition; printed invitations for dinners, lectures, and meetings; Western Books Exhibition catalogs; and printed keepsake booklets.
Six printed booklets which were not keepsakes of the Rounce & Coffin Club were removed from box 3 and moved to a folder in the
Dates
- Creation: 1932-1991
Creator
- Rounce & Coffin Club (Organization)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Historical note
The Rounce & Coffin Club began in late 1931 at the house of Jake (Jacob) Zeitlin in Echo Park (Los Angeles), California. Grant Dahlstrom was named President and Ward Ritchie was designated secretary. The members met frequently at Zeitlin's house and later at hotels in Pasadena. Beginning in 1938, the members held an annual Western Books Exhibition which displayed and judged fine press books made in and about the Western United States.
Early and noted members included Saul Marks, Paul Landacre, Gregg Anderson, Robert Schad, Roland Baughman, H. Richard Archer, and others. Lawrence Clark Powell features often in club ephemera as well.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains papers and printed ephemera created for members of the Rounce & Coffin Club. It includes items related to administration and activities of the club, materials associated with the annual Western Books Exhibition, event invitations, and printed keepsake booklets.
Arrangement
The collection was kept in its original order, except where certain items (such as the keepsake booklets) were arranged chronologically by date. Items are arranged thematically, and then chronologically when possible.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Administration, Publicity, and Western Book Exhibition... stuff., 1938-1989
- Series 2. Invitations to Dinners, Lectures, and Meetings, 1931-1991
- Series 3. Printed Booklets and Catalogs
Physical location
This collection is stored at the UC Regional Library Facility - South. Please contact Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks in advance if you would like to view the materials in this collection.
Acquisition Information
Portions of this collection originated in accession MS.1988.002, as a gift of Josephine Ver Brugge Zeitlin. Other portions of the collection were gifts of Lawrence Clark Powell or the Rounce & Coffin Club, or were collected over time by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Processing History
Processed by Jamie Henricks, August 2009
Subject
- Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987 (Person)
- Dahlstrom, Grant Edward (Person)
- Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996 (Person)
- Archer, H. Richard, (Horace Richard) (Person)
- Cheney, William M., William Murray, 1907-2002 (Person)
- Title
- Rounce and Coffin Club Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed and described by Jamie Henricks
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository