Pearce-Moses Collection of Printing and Typography, 1923-1976 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Pearce-Moses Collection of Printing and Typography, 1923-1976

ID: 01/01/MSS00103

Primary Creator: Pearce-Moses, Richard

Extent: 4.75 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

Series 1: Books

Series 2: Pamphlets

This collection consists of books, pamphlets and manuals on printing, typography, and linotype machines.

Richard Pearce-Moses is an American archivist and educator. He received a BA in Jounalism and MA in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Over his decades-long career, Pearce-Moses has worked at the Heard Museum, Arizona State University, Texas State University, and the Universtiy of Texas at Austin, and was the first director of the Master of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University. He has won numerous awards, including the American Library Association's Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, and was recognized for his pioneering work in Digital Archives by the Library of Congress in 2010. Pearce-Moses also served as president of the Society of American Archivists from 2005-2006.

Richard Pearce-Moses is an certified archivist and educator. He received his Bachelor of Jounalism and Masters in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and his MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over his decades long career, he has worked at the Heard Museum, Arizona State University, Texas State University, the Universtiy of Texas in Austin and was the first Director of the Masters of Archival Study program at Clayton State University. He has won numerous awards including the American Library Association's Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology and was recognized for his pioneering work in Digital Archives by the Library of Congress in 2010. He also served as the president of the Society of American Archivists from 2005-2006.

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Box and Folder Listing

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[Series 1: Books],
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Series 2: Pamphlets

Box 1

Folder 1

Item 1: New Mexico Book News Vol. III No. 5., February 1967.

Folder 2

Item 1: Douglass, Ralph. A Collection of Plates from Manuscript Writing and Lettering., 1948

Folder 3

Item 1: Humanistic Script of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Oxford : Bodleian Library. Reprinted 1976.

Folder 4

Item 1: The Cellar. Strathmore Chroma. N.d. [paper sample]

Folder 5

Item 1: "Acid-free Archival Papers." Sample book. Hollinger Corporation. Arlington, VA. N.d.

Folder 6

Item 1: "Buckeye Text." Paper sample. The Beckett Paper Company. Hamilton, OH. N.d.

Folder 7

Item 1: But... Strathmore Chroma. N.d. [paper sample?]

Folder 8

Item 1: "Casco." S.D. Warren Company. Boston, MA. January 1974.

Folder 9

Item 1: "Falkner Fine Papers Limited." No. 1. Sample book. London. N.d.

Folder 10

Item 1: Flowers for Every Occasion. Strathmore Chroma. N.d. [paper sample?]

Folder 11

Item 1: "Grandeelusions." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 12

Item 1: If Your Competition is Stealing the Show, Try This. Valley Paper Co. Holyoke, MA. N.d.

Folder 13

Item 1: "Patina Coated Matte." Sample book. S.D. Warren Company. Boston, MA. N.d.

Folder 14

Item 1: "Strathmore Bay Path Bond." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 15

Item 1: "Strathmore Cerulean." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 16

Item 1: "Strathmore Chroma." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 17

Item 1: "Strathmore Parchment." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 18

Item 1: "Strathmore Presents The Un-Square Electric Invention." brochure. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 19

Item 1: 'Strathmore Rhododendron Cover and Text." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 20

Item 1: "Strathmore Strathlucent." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 21

Item 1: "Strathmore Thistlemark Bond." Sample book. Strathmore Paper Company. Westfield, MA. N.d.

Folder 22

Item 1: "Teton." Sample book. Simpes Lee Paper Company. N.d.

Folder 23

Item 1: "Warren's Lustro for Letterpress." Sample book. S.D. Warren Company. Boston, MA. N.d.

Folder 24

Item 1: Dimensions Vol. IV, No. 1. N.d.

Folder 25

Item 1: J.W. Robinson Co. "Spring Flower Show" invitation with mailer. Los Angeles, CA. N.d.

Folder 26

Item 1: Margaret Ann Greene [ad]. N.d.

Folder 27

Item 1: The Linotype Line. Mergenthaler Linotype Company. N.d.

Folder 28

Item 1: Milestones of Linotype Achievement. Mergenthaler Linotype Company., 1943

Folder 29

Item 1: Milestones of Machine Typesetting. Mergenthaler Linotype Company., 1944

Folder 30

Item 1: Trouble shooting for Printers. Neenah, Wisconsin : Kimberly-Clark Corporation., 1954

Box 2

Folder 1

Item 1: Book Show 1971. Design and Production Committee of the Association of American University Presses., 1971

Folder 2

Item 1: Archer, H. Richard, and Ward Ritchie. Modern Fine Printing : Papers read at a Clark Library Seminar. Los Angeles : Anderson, Ritchie & Simon/The Ward Ritchie Press., 1968

Folder 3

Item 1: "Bernhard." Type specimen. Bauerfsche GieBerei. Frankfurt. N.d.

Folder 4

Item 1: Typographer's Digest. No. 4., Spring 1960.

Folder 5

Item 1: Typographer's Digest. Vol. 1, no. 3., Winter 1959.

Folder 6

Item 1: The Alphabet Innovations Collection Vol. 5. Reay's Typographic Service, Inc. Albuquerque., 1971

Folder 7

Item 1: The Composing Room, Specimen book. N.d.

Folder 8

Item 1: "The Five Columbia Type Faces." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Inc. N.d.

Folder 9

Item 1: "The Heavy-Weights Folio One." Reay's Typographic Service, Inc. N.d.

Folder 10

Item 1: The Kemble Occasional no. 14. October 1975. San Francisco, CA.

Folder 11

Item 1: The Perfect Type Accompaniment by Bauer. Bauer Type Foundry. N.d.

Folder 12

Item 1: [2 cut-outs: "Bernhard Cursive Ornaments."]

Folder 13

Item 1: Adscript no. 21. Missouri-Central Type Foundry. Wichita, KS. N.d.

Folder 14

Item 1: "Alpha-Blox." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Folder 15

Item 1: "Alphatype Styles." Type specimen. Typographic Service Company. N.d.

Folder 16

Item 1: "Annonce Grotesque Old Gothic Bold Italic." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Folder 17

Item 1: APA Mailing Bureau. February 1960 bundle.

Folder 18

Item 1: "Ariston Light Medium." Type specimen. Berthold Type Foundry. N.d.

Folder 19

Item 1: ATF Business Reply Cards.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Folder 20

Item 1: "Bauer Text." Ad. Bauer Type Foundry. N.d.

Folder 21

Item 1: "Bernhard Gothic Medium Condensed." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Folder 22

Item 1: "Bernhard Modern Bold and Bold Italic." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Folder 23

Item 1: "Bernhard Modern Bold Roman Italic." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Folder 24

Item 1: "Bernhard Modern Roman & Italic." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Folder 25

Item 1: "Berthold Type Faces." Type specimen. [2 sheets]. Berthold Typefoundry. N.d.

Folder 26

Item 1: "Beton Medium Condensed/Bold Condensed" Type specimen. N.d.

Folder 27

Item 1: "Boulevarde." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Folder 28

Item 1: "Caprice!" Type specimen. Berthold Type Foundry. Berlin. N.d.

Folder 29

Item 1: "Columbia." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Inc. N.d.

Folder 30

Item 1: [disbound type specimens]. Amsterdam Continental Type. N.d.

Folder 31

Item 1: [disbound type specimens]. Philmac Typography. N.d.

Folder 32

Item 1: [disbound type specimens]. Williams Press. N.d.

Folder 33

Item 1: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Aigrette."

Item 2: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Bernhard Tango."

Item 3: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Brush."

Item 4: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Bulmer Italic."

Item 5: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Bulmer Roman."

Item 6: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Century Schoolbook Bold."

Item 7: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Century Schoolbook Italic."

Item 8: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Century Schoolbook."

Item 9: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Egmont Bold."

Item 10: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Egmont Italic."

Item 11: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Egmont Light Italic."

Item 12: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Egmont Light."

Item 13: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Egmont."

Item 14: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Elongated Roman Shaded."

Item 15: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Gracia."

Item 16: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Heritage."

Item 17: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Lexington Series."

Item 18: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Libra Light."

Item 19: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Libra."

Item 20: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Lydian Bold Condensed Italic."

Item 21: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Lydian Bold Condensed Italic."

Item 22: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Lydian Bold Condensed."

Item 23: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "New Caslon Italic."

Item 24: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "New Caslon."

Item 25: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Nobel Light."

Item 26: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Noble Light Italic."

Item 27: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Piranesi Bold Italic."

Item 28: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Piranesi Bold."

Item 29: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Piranesi Bold."

Item 30: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Piranesi."

Item 31: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Rondo."

Item 32: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Studio."

Item 33: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Thorowgood Italic."

Item 34: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Verona."

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Item 35: Disbound(?) ATF type specimens. N.d. "Whitehall."

Box 3

Folder 1

Item 1: Disbound(?) Bauer type specimens. N.d. "Bauer Text."

Item 2: Disbound(?) Caslon type specimens. N.d. "Grotesque No. 9 Italic."

Item 3: "Egizio Italic.' Type specimen. [1 sheet].

Item 4: "Elegant Grotesk." Type specimen. N.d.

Item 5: "Elizabeth Roman and Italic." Bauer Alphabets Inc.. N.d.

Item 6: "Fairfield." Type specimen. Monsen. Los Angeles, CA. N.d.

Item 7: Flash no. 373. [1 leaf, n.d.]

Folder 2

Item 1: "Flinsch Privat." Type specimen. Schriftgirβerei Filinfch. N.d.

Folder 3

Item 1: For Your Guidance. Bauer Alphabets Inc. Los Angeles, CA. [catalog?] N.d.

Item 2: [Gillies gothic -- ad sample/type specimen?]. Bauer. N.d.

Item 3: "Girder." Type specimen. European Typefounders, Inc. N.d.

Item 4: "Grotesque." Type specimen. Westcott & Thomson. Philadelphia, PA. N.d.

Folder 4

Item 1: Handibook of Type Faces. Monsen. Los Angeles, CA. N.d.

Folder 5

Item 1: Handy One-Line ATF Type Style Selector. American Type Founders, [1963].

Item 2: Handy Type Index and Price List. American Type Foundry. January 1958.

Item 3: Headlines. Los Angeles : Kenmick Co., 1971

Folder 6

Item 1: "Hearst Italic to Tudor Black." Type specimen. N.d., 21 copies

Folder 7

Item 1: "Hidalgo." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 2: "Initials Designed by Maria Balle." N.d.

Folder 8

Item 1: "Intertype Bodoni." Type specimen. Universal Intertype. N.d.

Item 2: "Intertype Medieval, A Refreshing Type Face." Type specimen. Intertype Corporation. N.d.

Item 3: "Intertype Two-Letter Display Fonts." Type specimen. Intertype Corporation. N.d.

Item 4: "Keyboard." Type specimen. Stephenson, Black, & Co. Ltd. Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield. N.d.

Item 5: "Linotype Monticello." Type specimen. N.d.

Item 6: "Linotype Times Roman." Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Brooklyn, New York. N.d.

Item 7: Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc., Specimen book.

Folder 9

Item 1: "Lucien." Type specimen. N.d.

Item 2: "Lydian Bold Condensed." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Item 3: "Majestic Geschnitten Nach Entwurfen von Julius Giplam." Type specimen. N.d.

Item 4: 'Microgramma." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 5: "Microgramme Condensed Titling." Type specimen. [1 sheet].

Item 6: "Mondial." Type specimen. European Typographical Inc. New York. N.d.

Item 7: 'Monotype 20th Century Family.' Type specimen. Lanston Monotype Machine Company. N.d.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Folder 10

Item 1: Mr. Antique Volume 10: Ornate & antique Type . Phoenix : Typefounders., 1966?

Item 2: "New Faces." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Item 3: Nobel Light specimen sheets (2 total). American Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 4: "Nobel Light." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 5: "Normande Tradition Regina." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphics Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Item 6: "Normande." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Item 7: "Onyx." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Item 8: "Ornamentation Composed with Type Designs." Texas Western College. N.d.

Item 9: "Ornamentation Composed with Type Designs." Texas Western College. N.d.

Item 10: "Palette." Type specimen. Berthold Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 11: "Phenix." Type specimen. American Type Foundry. N.d.

Folder 11

Item 1: "Philmac presents...." [Disbound specimen sheets, 40 pp.]. Philmac Typographers. New York City, N.d.

Item 2: Philmac Types Index 63. Philmac Typographers. N.d.

Folder 12

Item 1: "Playbill: A Prospectus." Type specimen. Stephenson, Black, & Co. Ltd. Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield. N.d.

Item 2: "Regina." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Item 3: "Reiner Script, a preview." Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equip. N.d.

Item 4: "Romans." Type specimen. American Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 5: "Ronda Bold." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Item 6: "Rondo Bold." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Item 7: "Rondo Bold." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 8: "Rondo." Type specimen. American Type Founders. N.d.

Item 9: 'Rondo." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 10: Selection of Amsterdam Continental Type Faces. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Item 11: "Signal Black/Signal Medium." Type specimen. Berthold Typefoundry. Berlin. N.d.

Item 12: "Signal." Type specimen. Berthold Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 13: "Signal." Type specimen. Berthold Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 14: "Silent Rendezvous." Type specimen. Bauer Type. New York. N.d.

Item 15: "Spartan ATF." [7 sheets]. Type specimens. American Type Foundry. N.d.

Item 16: [Specimen sheets]. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc. N.d.

Folder 13

Item 1: "Standard ABC." No. 537A. Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types. N.d.

Item 2: "Standard ABC." No. 539A. Type specimen. Amsterdam Continental Types. N.d.

Item 3: "Standard Medium Condensed." Type specimen. Berthold Typefoundry. Berlin. N.d.

Item 4: "Standard." Specimen No. 533A. Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Inc. N.d.

Item 5: "Strong Bonds." Type Specimen. Bauer. N.d.

Item 6: "Studio." Type specimen. Typefoundry Amsterdam. N.d.

Item 7: "Tea-Chest, A Stencil Type." Type specimen. Stephenson, Black, & Co. Ltd. Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield. N.d.

Item 8: "Troyer Ornaments/Penline Flourishes." Type specimen. American Type Founders. Elizabeth, NJ. N.d.

Folder 14

Item 1: Type Alone is Not Enough. William Carnell Advertising Typography. Los Angeles, CA. N.d.

Item 2: Type Directory. Cardinal Type Service, Inc. New York. N.d.

Item 3: Type Foundry. San Francisco : Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., 1962

Item 4: Univers.  San Francisco : Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., 1972?

Folder 15

Item 1: "Victorian Types for Modern Printing." Type specimen. ATF, N.d.

Item 2: 'Vogue." Type specimen. Intertype Corporation. N.d.

Item 3: 'Weiss Borders." Type specimen. N.d.

Item 4: A Handbook of Types. Amsterdam Continental Types, Inc., [February 1968.]

Item 5: A Synopsis of Type Faces from Stephenson Black. Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield. N.d.

Box 4

Folder 1

Item 1: The New York Public Library. "Old-Fashioned Type Specimens" [folded broadside]. N.d.

Item 2: "Alphacast." Sample book. West Virginia Pulp and Paper. N.d.

Item 3: Potts, W. F., Compositors and Printers Handbook. London : London Society of Compositors., 1952.

Folder 2

Item 1: "Blue Hill Laboratories." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 2: "Carl S. Junge." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 3: "Crocker McElwin Company Paper Makers." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 4: "Ginn and Company." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 5: "Guild China." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 6: "Jaeger Imports." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 7: "Keyston Bros." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 8: "Modern Biscuit Corporation." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 9: 'This Changing World." Stationary sample. N.d.

Item 10: "Zenith Aluminum Co." Stationary sample. N.d.

Folder 3

Item 1: Coffin, Henry. Layout File for Printers and Advertisers. Moore Publishing Co., 1957.

Folder 4

Item 1: The Intervals of Robert Frost. Prospectus (?). University of California Press., 1947

Item 2: "The Story Classics." [prospectus?] Story Classics. Emmaus, PA.

Item 3: 1955 Design and Printing for Commerce & Fifty Advertisements of the Year. New York : American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Folder 5

Item 1: [6 misc. ephemera: reservation/reply cards]

Folder 6

Item 1: Billions of Bottles. Glass Container Manufacturers Institute. New York. N.d.

Item 2: Bottles and Bins Vol. IV no. 2, April 1975. St. Helena, CA.

Item 3: Fortune Loves C.A. [brochure?] N.d.

Item 4: Give With Pride. [brochure] N.d.

Item 5: New Ideas from the Old World: A Graphic Arts Exhibition. Brochure. N.d.

Item 6: Woman's Home Companion Special. N.d.

Item 7: The Intertype Ready Reckoner. Progressive Intertype. N.d.

Folder 7

Item 1: Floersheim Printing Co, Inc., Specimen book., 1985?

Folder 8

Item 1: "Fotosetter Type Faces." Type specimen. Intertype Corporation. N.d.

Item 2: Hoflund Graphics Catalog. N.d.

Item 3: Lookalikes. [Informational brochure]. Westcott & Thomson, Inc. N.d.

Folder 9

Item 1: A Typographic Quest. No. 1., 1964

Item 2: A Typographic Quest. No. 2., 1965

Item 3: Handbook of Technical Articles. Van Son Holland Ink., 1966

Item 4: Announcing... [brochure] King Cassell Laboratory. Los Angeles, CA. N.d.

Item 5: [Business Card sample book]. Mainline Embossing Co. N.d.

Folder 10

Item 1: Ganes Brothers & Lane, Inc., Specimen book., 1960?

Item 2: "Main Line Wants to Turn You On." [ad/brochure] Main Line Embossing Co. N.d.

Item 3: The Electrotype and Stereotype Handbook. Second Edition. Cleveland : International Association of Electrotypers & Stereotypers, Inc. N.d.

Item 4: The Stone Age: Canadian Lithography from its Beginnings. Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada., 2000

Item 5: Number 333: The New Drake Impression. Philadelphia, PA. N.d.

Item 6: Textile and Embroidered Bindings. Oxford : Bodeleian Library., 1971

Item 7: Ritchie, Ward. "Gregg Anderson."

Item 8: "Jack Zeithin, A Tribute." [stapled leaves from American Bookseller, May 1979]

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