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Box 9

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

About Chapin Library

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: Subseries 3.
Scope and Contents note

Includes a few pamphlets about the Chapin Library at Williams College, some library letterhead, Archer's library business card, and a card thanking Lawrence Clark Powell for a gift to the library.

Dates: 1959-1972

Chapin Library Acquisitions, 1962-1971

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Identifier: Subseries 3.
Scope and Contents note

Includes list of books and manuscripts acquired by the Chapin Library, ordered chronologically for each school year.

Dates: 1962-1971

Exhibit Announcements, 1959-1972

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3-4
Identifier: Subseries 3.
Scope and Contents note

Includes announcements and invitations to programs held at Chapin Library and/or other locations at Williams College. Most of these items were designed and/or printed by Archer.

Dates: 1959-1972

Invitations to Lectures

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Identifier: Subseries 3.
Scope and Contents note

Includes invitations to lectures at various places, some by Archer, and others at Williams College.

Dates: 1959-1972

Calligraphy, ca. 1946-1955

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: Subseries 4.
Scope and Contents note

Includes examples of Archer's calligraphy practice, ranging from personal stationery designs to testing different pens and styles. Also included is a letter from Archer to his wife testing out writing various ways and with multiple nibs. Includes a page of sketches of the Clark Library owl in various incarnations.

Dates: ca. 1946-1955

Heritage of the Graphic Arts, 6th series, 1967

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 7
Identifier: Subseries 4.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series:

This subseries contains items that did not fit in other series or subseries, and includes Archer's personal copy of an early Clark Library publication, Archer's practice with calligraphy, small newspaper clippings and bits of ephemera, and other items.

Dates: 1967

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: Report of the First Decade, 1934-1944, [1945?]

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 8
Identifier: Subseries 4.
Scope and Contents note

This report is Archer's annotated desk copy. It contains a copy of the reading room rules in the back cover. The folder also includes a copy of "Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Clark Memorial Library", by Archer, reprinted from the January 1951 issue of the Autograph Collector's Journal.

Dates: [1945?]

Miscellaneous

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 9-11
Identifier: Subseries 4.
Scope and Contents note

Includes print scraps, small newspaper clippings, poems, notes for journals, and other items.

Dates: 1928-1977