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Finding Aid to the Thomas Perry Stricker Papers, 1917-1945

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Container List

Correspondence, Manuscripts, Biographical Notes

Box 1, Folder 1.

Manuscripts: Recognition Builds, Competition Destroys; "A Voyage to the Islands of the Et Cetereans and Ampersandians"; Elizabeth's Merlin, 1945; The Hollywood Bowl

Box 1, Folder 2.

Stricker memorial: correspondence, 1945

Scope and Content Note

Certified photostat of Stricker's death certificate

Box 1, Folder 3.

Drawings by Thomas Perry Stricker

Box 1, Folder 4.

Biography, notes on Stricker memorial

Box 1, Folder 5.

Thomas Perry Stricker to A.G. Beaman, 1935

Box 1, Folder 6.

Stricker to Will Cheney

Scope and Content Note

Cheney to Lawrence Clark Powell and H. Richard Archer

Box 1, Folder 7.

Stricker to Ralph Howey, 1936-37

Box 1, Folder 8.

Stricker to Paul Jordan Smith, 1936-1937

Box 1, Folder 9.

Stricker to Jane Zeitlin, 1936

Box 1, Folder 10.

Stricker to Lawrence Clark Powell, 1937-1944

Box 1, Folder 11.

Stricker to Gordon Ray Young, 1937

Box 1, Folder 12.

Thomas Perry Stricker's copy

Box 1, Folder 13.

Synopsis of a Suggested Treatment for Home, Sweet Home Based on the Story of John Howard Payne (Jake Zeitlin and Thomas Perry Stricker)

Box 1, Folder 14.

Mr. Big of the Boulevard (Anthony Hillyer)

Box 1, Folder 15.

Old Fitz's Rubaiyat (Thomas Perry Stricker and Jake Zeitlin)

Files on the American Institute of Graphic Arts and Other Organizations

Box 2, Folder 1.

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Box 2, Folder 2.

AIGA newsletter

Box 2, Folder 3.

Miscellaneous reference material

Box 2, Folder 4.

Invitations, exhibits

Scope and Content Note

(includes Ampersand Dinner, Caxton Club, Grolier Club)

Miscellany on Books

Box 3, Folder 1.

KECA: Concert Programs 1936 (January, April, May, June, July, August)

Box 3, Folder 2.

Booklets

Scope and Content Note

( Type Design for the Scholarly Book [Frederic Goudy]; Some Presses You Will Be Glad to Know About, Protest of an Old Timer, 1930 [John Bennett]; John Fiske, Bookman [Lawrence Powell]; Program for the New York Times National Book Fair; Five Centuries of Book Design; The Regeneration of the Book; Five Hundred Years of Printing 1440-1940; The Philosophy of Limited Editions [Richard Le Gallienne]; Five Hundred Years of the Printed Book, William Edwin Rudge, 1937)

Box 3, Folder 3.

Booklets

Scope and Content Note

( The 50 Books; Exhibition, 1935; Summary Report on the Hastings Manuscripts; Linotype's Shining Lines, 1937; American Anderson News , 1935; The New York Times National Book Fair, 1936; Great Books in Great Editions, 1940; In Behalf of Easy Reading; The Beginnings of the American Cities; An Exhibition of Fifty Books, 1935; Bookbinding and Book Production; Manuscripts: Clark Library )

Commercial Printing

Box 4, Folder 1.

The Private Press of Thomas Perry Stricker (broadside)

Box 4, Folder 2.

Ephemera

Box 4, Folder 3.

Ephemera

Box 4, Folder 4.

Ephemera

Box 4, Folder 5.

Booklets

Scope and Content Note

(Excess Gaggage, 1937; A Confidential Source of Fresh Ideas and Treatments; Enfin: A Poem Hitherto Unpublished by Sir Edwin Arnold, 1936; Lawrence of Arabia, 1935; Conference Process; Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Disorders of Martinus Scriblerus; Strephon and Chloe with Other Poems Selected from the Works of Jonathan Swift; The Path of Culture; One Man's Family )

Box 4, Folder 6.

Booklets

Scope and Content Note

( Human Touch, 1937; In Praise of Bacchus Ducal Wine and Brandies [2 copies]; Harlequinade, 1931; Some Advertising Ideas for "Wings Cigarets" suggested by T.P.S. )

Box 5, Folder 1.

Letterheads printed by Thomas Perry Stricker

Box 5, Folder 2.

Gift of Emma P. Stricker

Scope and Content Note

(ephemera, correspondence, photograph)

Box 5, Folder 3.

Christmas card 1937 (Bauer Type Foundry)

Box 5, Folder 4.

Greeting cards

Box 5, Folder 5.

Greeting cards

Box 5, Folder 6.

Ephemera: ex Libris, business cards, small designs

Box 5, Folder 7.

Ephemera

Box 5, Folder 8.

The Typophiles Whodunit

Correspondence

Box 6, Folder 1.

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Box 6, Folder 2.

Paul A. Bennett (13 letters), A.G. Beaman (6 letters), Lewis Alliger (7 letters)

Box 6, Folder 3.

Paul Jordan Smith (12 letters), Paul Standard (4 letters)

Box 6, Folder 4.

Miscellaneous correspondence

Scope and Content Note

(includes Huntington Library, Thomas Fairbanks Co., Frederic Main, Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, William Reydel, Babel Gillis)

Box 6, Folder 5.

Empty envelopes

Manuscripts and Ephemera

Box 7, Folder 1.

Ephemera: Gift of Leo Linder, February 1946

Scope and Content Note

(Another Erewhonian Memento; An Erwhonian Memento, & Cetera Symbol of Oblivion; A Voyage of Mr. Gulliver's to the Island of the Et Cetereans and Ampersandians; Enter the Black Art; Four Poems in Prose; Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Horton and Converse; Typophiles; Lawrence of Arabia; Symbols of God; Oh me A--e!!!; The Flowing Bowl)

Box 7, Folder 2.

Manuscripts.

Scope and Content Note

(List of the Letters and Manuscripts of Musicians in the Clark Library; Inventory of the Bixby Records Collection in the Palos Verdes Library and Art Gallery; Identification of the Persons Mentioned in the Bixby Records Collection; Supplement to the Manual of Procedure: American Imprints Inventory, the Southern California Historical Records Survey, 1941; The Care and Cataloguing of Manuscripts, Key to the Manuscripts Collection in the Huntington Library)

Box 7, Folder 3.

Individual manuscript forms

Box 7, Folder 4.

Translations

Box 7, Folder 5.

Empty envelopes

Ephemera

Box 8, Folder 1.

Booklets

Scope and Content Note

(Canis Libido Lascira; Books and Bindings [4 copies]; Foxhole Fancy; A Prayer [2 copies]; 50 Books of the Year, 1934 [3 copies]; To Ethel My Love, November 1934; Four Poems in Prose; Wine of Sun; World Court of Wisdom).

Box 8, Folder 24

Ephemera

Box 8, Folder 5.

Ephemera

Scope and Content Note

(History of St. James Church Chicago, 1934 [Massey Hamilton Shepherd Jr.]; Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Horton and Converse, 1934; One Man's Family 1932-1939).

Box 9, Folder 1.

1944-45 Christmas Keepsake

Box 9, Folder 2.

A Printer's Tale, 1943

Box 9, Folder 3.

& Cetera: Symbol of Oblivion, 1936 (Lewis Alliger)

Box 9, Folder 4.

Book Design (Thomas Perry Stricker)

Box 9, Folder 5.

The Typophiles Whodunit

Box 9, Folder 6.

Four Poems in Prose, 1938 (Gordon Ray Young)

Box 9, Folder 7.

The Hollywood Bowl

Box 9, Folder 8.

Aged in Wood (8 copies)

Box 9, Folder 9.

Science in Religion, 1936; A Note by Dr. C. Charles Waller; A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, 1932 (Thomas Perry Stricker); Season's Greetings, 1945; Louis Epstein's Bookshop

Box 9, Folder 10.

Marginalia to Life, 1931

Box 9, Folder 11.

A Song to David (Christopher Smart)

Box 9, Folder 12.

Notes on Printing History Series (Richard Ellis)

Box 10, Folder 1.

Left to Their Own Devices: A Postscript, 1938

Box 10, Folder 2.

Another Erewhonian Memento, A Letter Hitherto Unpublished from Samuel Butler to Richard Garnett and Christmas Greetings from the Paul Jordan Smiths of Erewhon III, 1938 (6 copies)

Box 10, Folder 3.

A Voyage of Mr. Gulliver's to the Island of the Et Cetereans and Ampersandians, 1936 [5 copies]

Box 10, Folder 4.

An Erewhonian Memento, 1935 [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 5.

A Prayer, Season's Greetings, 1945 [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 6.

An Excerpt from Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, 1939 [4 copies]

Box 10, Folder 7.

Midsummer Festival, Jungberg Rancho, 1938 [5 copies]

Box 10, Folder 8.

Some Notes on the Making of Grimy Gertrude, Better Known as Dirty Gertie from Bizerte, 1944 (proofs and copy)

Box 10, Folder 9.

Enter the Black Art, 1939 [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 10.

Pro Patria, 1940 [7 copies]

Box 10, Folder 11.

Elizabeth's Irregular Humorist, 1943 (Sir John Falstaffe)

Box 10, Folder 12.

Lawrence of Arabia, 1935 (Julian Biddulph Arnold) [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 13.

Symbols of God, 1932 (Ethel Eaton) [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 14.

3 Tudor Grotesques : Elizabeth's Privy Councillor, 1936 [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 15.

Her Faust and His Goose Flesh, 1940 [5 copies]

Box 10, Folder 16.

World Court of Wisdom, 1940 [2 copies]

Box 10, Folder 17.

Ah Ben, 1936 [2 copies]

Box 11, Folder 1.

& Ceteras, A Parcel of Notes on Books, Old and New (Number 1, July 1934)

Box 11, Folder 2.

The Typophiles Whodunit (proofs)

Box 11, Folder 3.

Marginalia to Life, Being Notes from the Private Papers of Anthony Hillyer, 1931 (proofs)

Box 11, Folder 4.

A Note, The Printer to the Reader

Box 11, Folder 5.

Ephemera

Scope and Content Note

(includes Sir Edwin Arnold Poet, Orientalist; Journalist, Diplomat [3 copies]; The Officina Bodoni, 1936; Prospectus for Typophiles; A Sonnet Written by the Noble Knight Sir Philip Sidney and Now Reprinted from the 11th Edition of his Work, "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" London, 1622; A New Voice; The Drama; Announcements and Descriptions for One Man's Family; A Catalog of First Editions and Rare Books Including a First Issue of the First Edition of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain , Louis Epstein's Bookshop, July 1931)

Other Presses' Ephemera

Box 12, Folder 1.

Prospectuses

Scope and Content Note

(includes A History of the Printed Book (Limited Editions Club); At the Birth of an Age; Peter Pauper Press Mount Vernon Summer and Fall 1936; Typography by Clifford P. Anderson; Holborn House: Reveries of a Bachelor or A Book of the Heart, 1931; Typologia: Studies in Type Design and Type Making; The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering; The New Book Illustration in France; Journal of a Voyage Between China and the Northwestern Coast of America Made in 1804 by William Shaler; Prospectus of a Hitherto Unpublished Work by Herman Melville: Journal up the Straits, now to be published by the Colophon; The Boar and Shibboleth with Other Poems; Solstice and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, 1935).

Box 12, Folder 2.

A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea, and China, prospectus, 1936 (Dard Hunter)

Box 12, Folder 3.

Ephemera

Scope and Content Note

(includes The Merrymount Press, Boston; We Hired Us a Good Printer [William Rudge], The Dolphin prospectus; Contemporary Books, 1935).

Box 12, Folder 4.

Reader's Digest, March 1947 (story by Ethel Eaton)

Box 12, Folder 5.

Prospectuses

Scope and Content Note

(includes Life Among the Indians or The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians , 1935; Prospectus for Third Year of Signature; Plutarch's Lives; Die Doves Press; The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Worcester Square Looking Towards the City Hospital, Boston )

Box 12, Folder 6.

Ephemera

Scope and Content Note

(includes Stefan Zweig, Aldine Bembo: A Type Face (Argus Press); Ave Caesar; Ins Handelsregister wurde eingetragen: Buchdruckerei Erich Norberg; Prevzacneho Pisarskeho Umeni; Organization and Publicity Counsel; Egmont Typeface ).

Box 12, Folder 7.

Ephemera (Hawthorn House)

Box 12, Folder 8.

Prospectuses

Scope and Content Note

(includes Candide, 1928 (Voltaire); The Boar's Head Press).

Manuscripts and Miscellaneous

Box 13, Folder 1.

The Printer to the Reader (A. Hillyer) (Ms.)

Box 13, Folder 2.

Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

( True to Type, Family Tree of Letter Forms, Microscopic Types, Some Random Thoughts Regarding the Tradition of Mother Tongue, California Chronology , sketches)

Box 13, Folder 3.

Manuscripts

Scope and Content Note

( The Human Touch, Notes on Techniques in Book Publishing, The Physique of the American Textbook, A Brief Chronicle of the Black Art 1436-1936, A Typographical Wardrobe )

Box 13, Folder 4.

Words and Men / Book and Men (Ms.)

Box 13, Folder 5.

Booze (Ms.)

Box 13, Folder 6.

Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

(includes Mabel Gillis, L.B. Siegfried)

Box 13, Folder 7.

Hollywood Spectacle (Ms.)

Box 13, Folder 8.

Newspaper and magazine clippings

Box 13, Folder 9.

Artwork

Box 13, Folder 10.

Photographs

Box 13, Folder 11.

Lists of works published by Thomas Perry Stricker

Box 13, Folder 12.

Biographical manuscript

Box 13, Folder 13.

Copies of articles by Thomas Perry Stricker

Box 13, Folder 14.

Mother Tongue (Ms.)

Box 13, Folder 15.

Irregular Humorist, Privy Councillor, Elizabeth's Merlin (Ms.)

Ephemera, Gifts from Ralph T. Howey July 1948

Box 14

Ephemera and Gifts

Scope and Content Note

Includes Elizabeth's Privy Councillor [2 copies]; newspaper clippings; A Voyage of Mr. Gulliver's to the Island of the Et Cetereans and Ampersandians; & Cetera Symbol of Oblivion; Enter the Black Art; A Story for the Children; The Hollywood Bowl; An Excerpt from Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals.

Box 14

Ephemera and Gifts

Scope and Content Note

The Town Pump: An American Comedy (Charley Grapewin in collaboration with Anthony Hillyer): two linocuts and woodblock for title page

Separate items

Three oversized proofs in "S" Map Drawer

Scope and Content Note

The Ethel Eaton Private School of Costume Design (broadside)

A Conspective Bibliography of Trade Marks, 1938 (galley proofs)

Spinach from Many Gardens, 1935 (galley proofs)

Engraver's and Photographer's Proportion Calculator

8 x 10 b/w photograph and poem in leather folder: gift of Ethel Eaton

Photograph/scrapbook album from 1917-1919 while a member of the AES in France

Scrapbook of ephemera printed by Thomas Perry Stricker

Container List

Correspondence, Manuscripts, Biographical Notes

Files on the American Institute of Graphic Arts and Other Organizations

Miscellany on Books

Commercial Printing

Correspondence

Manuscripts and Ephemera

Ephemera

Other Presses' Ephemera

Manuscripts and Miscellaneous

Ephemera, Gifts from Ralph T. Howey July 1948

Separate items

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