Type Specimens Collection, 1785-1984

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Summary

Abstract:
Advertisements, catalogs, flyers, leaflets, and lists, mainly by U.S. companies, but also a number from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Extent:
7.4 linear feet (7 records containers and 2 oversize boxes).
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Type Specimens Collection. Printers Mss 42. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains advertisements, catalogs, flyers, leaflets, and lists, mainly by U.S. companies, but also a number from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and the Netherlands. The materials span 1785-1984, though the bulk of it comes from the 1920s through the 1950s. It includes some material from California firms, including the A. Carlisle & Co. (San Francisco), Borden Printing Co. (San Francisco), California Electrotype and Stereotype Co. (Los Angeles), California Electrotyping Co. (San Francisco), and the University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles).

A number of related items have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

The Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection (Mss 107) also has several boxes of type specimens in its Printers' Supplies section.

Acquisition information:
Multiple donations (incl. Hobart Skofield) and purchases, ca. 1960s-1980s.
Physical location:
SRLF (Boxes 1-7); Del Sur Oversize (Box 8-9).
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

None. Majority of materials stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Terms of access:

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:

Type Specimens Collection. Printers Mss 42. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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