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American literature broadsides collection
Collection
Identifier: 6134
Abstract
This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.
Dates:
1923 - 2018
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Carpe Diem Press records
Collection
Identifier: 6150
Abstract
The collection consists of the archives of the Carpe Diem Press, consisting of maquettes for books, ephemeral items, notes, art works, test prints and proofs, textile samples, and cover samples. Also included are posters and information about James HD Brown's work, and materials on the Linotipografica Quintas, the printing company with which Carpe Diem Press works regularly. Carpe Diem Press is owned and operated by artist James HD Brown and Alexandra Brown. Based in Oaxaca, Mexico, the...
Dates:
2000 - 2018
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
European prints collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049048698]
Identifier: 6158
Abstract
This small collection consists of mostly 18th and 19th century European prints. Artists represented include Pierre Numa Basaget, Anne Claude de Caylus, George Follitt, Francois Jacques Dequevauviller, Edouard Hocquart, Gabriel Huquier, James Gabriel Huquier, Jean Francois Daumont, Georg Balthasar Probst, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Robert Laurie, Jacques Francois Chereau, and Andre Basset. Of particular note are the optical prints, which were meant to be seen through "optical machines" or...
Dates:
18th-19th centuries
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard J. Hoffman print collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0359
Abstract
This collection consists of printer Richard J. Hoffman's (1912-1989) personal collection of printed books and printmaking books. These books cover subjects such as lithography, typography, and printmaking. Hoffman was a printer and professor of printmaking and graphic arts in Los Angeles.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Incunabula and book leaves collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6121
Abstract
Collection of 163 individual, original leaves from incunabula and books dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries.
Dates:
16th-18th centuries
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Incunabula and early printed book leaves collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6199
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of individual leaves from incunabula, the majority of which are Bibles, German in origin, and dating from approximately 1470 to 1499. Also included are colored leaves from a printing of the Nuremburg Chronicles, and some single leaf examples of 18th, 19th and early 20th century fine printing.
Dates:
circa 1470s-20th century
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Japanese poster collection
Collection
Identifier: 3020
Abstract
The Japanese poster collection contains approximately 45 posters on the following topics: Japanese products and design; railways, ocean liners and tourism; Japanese art and design exhibitions; Japanese imperial modernity (including colonies in Korea, Manchuria, and northeastern China); and Japanese Ministry and Telecommunications campaigns. The posters reflect both Japanese painting techniques (nihonga) and Western painting techniques (...
Dates:
1915 - 1929
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Latino/Chicano, Lowrider and Gangbanger T-Shirt Art collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0513
Abstract
The collection consists of display samples of Latino, Chicano, lowrider and gangbanger t-shirt designs, decals, patches, and cards from the 1980s to the 1990s. Some of the designs were supplied by Francisco's Exotic T's, Photo-Lith International, and SSI. Many of the designs draw on gang-related street art forms--tattoo flash and graffiti placas. There are also designs inspired by Christian iconography; album cover design; and lowrider artwork. Some designs reference Latin music; others are...
Dates:
1980-1995, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
John Henry Nash brochures, folders, and fine books
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0387
Abstract
This small collection consists of announcements, brochures, pamphlets, greeting cards, poems, sketches, fine books, folders, and engravings by various hands designed and printed by San Francisco fine printer John Henry Nash. Nash was a well-known designer, typesetter and printer working in San Francisco in the first decades of the 20th century. He opened his own shop in 1915 after working for and in partnership with some of the better known printers and publishers in San Francisco; the...
Dates:
1915 - 1939
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
ONE Incorporated records
Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1.; Series Series 5.; Series Series 7.
Identifier: Coll2011-001
Abstract
The collection consists of the administrative records, publications, correspondence, divisional records, affiliate office records, and photographs of ONE Inc., 1907-2001, bulk 1952-1994. The records include annual reports, court records of ONE Inc. legal entanglements, complete runs of ONE Magazine and ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies, reader correspondence, submissions by writers and artists, ONE Institute course...
Dates:
1907-2001; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1994