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Box 1

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Correspondence and accounting of publisher and bookseller William J. Campbell of Philadelphia, 1912-1919

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence is predominantly with a John S. Jenks Jr. to whose family Campbell had debt.

Dates: 1912-1919

Correspondence of Louise Clark of Bryn Mawr regarding book binding tools, 1920-1926

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of letters, likely used for French's research into bookbinding.

Dates: 1920-1926

Publications and clippings regarding bookbinding, 1937-1981

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Original label reads: "PW clippings, bookbinding exhibitions in the 1930s, EA Thompson, articles on Edith Diehl, Peter Frank."

Dates: 1937-1981

French's course notes while a student at Columbia University's Library Service master's program, 1938-1939

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1938-1939

Reviews of Bookbinding in America: Three Essays (published 1941, featuring French's "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" essay), 1938-1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1938-1941

Documents and correspondence regarding French's Guggenheim Fellowship application, 1939-1960

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1939-1960

Research materials and correspondence regarding 18th century American bookbinding, 1939-1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of Indenture by Frederick August Mayo, a 1939 newspaper article on bookbinding, notes on bindings, a letter from a bookseller, photocopies of rubbings/bookbindings, and notes for a Philadelphia binding study.

Dates: 1939-1989

Research materials and correspondence regarding Robert Aitken, 1942, 1961 and undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1942, 1961 and undated

Wellesley News clipping "Students to Print, Bind by Hand in Library's New Book Arts Lab", 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1944

Research materials, photos and rubbings, and related correspondence regarding Andrew Barclay, 1944-1983

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes French's gathered research materials, copious notes, drafts, and correspondence with colleagues related to her writings on bookbinding, and almost entirely focused on bookbinding in early (18th century) America. This series is arranged in chronological order (by earliest date in file range).

Dates: 1944-1983