Printed ephemera
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Harbor Press Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.00282
Abstract
Printed ephemera produced by the Harbor Press, a commercial printing and design firm in New York City from 1925 to 1942. The collection includes broadsides, invitations, announcements, cards, brochures, programs, menus, bookplates, keepsakes, memorial tributes, letterheads, certificates, advertisements, etc., produced for the Press's mostly New York City clientele, and sometimes for itself.
Dates:
1924 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1941
Ronald Gordon (AC 1965) Oliphant Press Materials
Collection
Identifier: MA.00281
Abstract
Chiefly selected job files related to the commercial work of the Oliphant Press, a New York City printing and graphic design firm founded by Ronald Gordon (AC 1965) in 1966, containing corres-pondence, sketches and intermediate designs, invoices, finished press specimens, etc. Clients include a wide variety of mostly New York City-based cultural and educational institutions, but also largely featuring Amherst College. Jobs included broad¬sides, book-lets, keepsakes, bookplates, bookmarks,...
Dates:
1965-2009
Snail's Pace Press Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.00283
Abstract
Chiefly printed ephemera of Francis H. Fobes' Snail's Pace Press, including pamphlets of Greek and Roman texts, college examinations, certificates, light verse, and holiday greetings. Also, a small amount of correspondence of Fobes and others regarding the Press, and a biographical remembrance of Fobes.
Dates:
1922 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1924 - 1957