Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Meriden Gravure Company Collection,
- Dates:
- ca. 1964-1971
- Creators:
- D. Tambo
- Extent:
- .8 linear feet (2 document boxes)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
Meriden Gravure Company Collection. Printers Mss 13. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains printed examples from the Meriden Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut, ca. 1964-1971. Included are booklets, calendars, exhibition catalogs, guides, journals, and pamphlets commissioned by a number of galleries, museums, organizations, and universities and colleges.
Meriden Gravure Company, led by E. Harold Hugo, was internationally renowned for its illustrated volumes. In 1977 it merged with Stinehour Press. For further information about Meriden and other American presses, see works such as: Joseph Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America (1977).
UCSB Special Collections has a number of additional works printed by Meriden that have been cataloged separately. These can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
- Acquisition information:
- Undetermined.
- Physical location:
- Del Sur
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2003
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid in EAD v. 1.0 derived from MS Word 2000 file by David C. Gartrell. Date of source: 09 December 2003 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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None.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
-
Meriden Gravure Company Collection. Printers Mss 13. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062