Contents


Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

Series 1: DOCUMENTS

Series 2: BOOKPLATES

Series 3: ENGRAVING PLATES

Series 4: PRINTING BLOCKS

Series 5: ORIGINAL PRINT MASTERS

Amherst College Library Bookplates Collection, 1828-1989

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Graham Leach-Krouse (AC 2005), student encoding assistant.

2011

Collection Overview

Creator: Amherst College. Library.
Title: Bookplates Collection
Dates: 1828-1989
Abstract: Approximately 222 bookplates and bookplate designs, ca. 1828-1989, used in the Amherst College library. The collection also includes information about the history of some of the bookplates; a variety of printing blocks, engravings and other print masters; and a small amount of correspondence.
Extent: 1 records storage box, 1 flat box(1.5 linear ft.)
Language: EnglishEnglish

Administrative Information

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Amherst College Library Bookplates Collection [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.

There is no restriction on access to the Amherst College Library Bookplates Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Amherst College Library Bookplates Collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Approximately 222 bookplates and bookplate designs, ca. 1828-1989, used in the Amherst College library. The collection also includes information about the history of some of the bookplates; a variety of printing blocks, engravings and other print masters; and a small amount of correspondence.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into five series:

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Series 1: DOCUMENTS


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Friends of the Library Newsletters - "Story of the Bookplate," 1978


History of Amherst College bookplates: notes by Newton McKeon


Correspondence, notes and graphics re: Converse Memorial Library bookplate


Scrapbook of various Amherst college bookplates, 1828-1938


Scrapbook of various Amherst college bookplates, 1923-1963


"Red Curt's Loot" - (no longer used)

Series 2: BOOKPLATES


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Academia (Library of) - 2 types/printings


Alexandrian Library


Allison '26, Gordon K.


Alumni House of Amherst College


Amherst College Infirmary


Amherst College Library (Presented by)


Amherst College Library (small modern plate) [Stinehour Press]


Amherst College Library (small modern plate, blue) [Stinehour Press]


Amherst College Library (small old plate)


Amherst College Library (large modern plate, cream) [Stinehour Press]


Amherst College Library (medium white plate, purple ink seal)


Athenae Library (4 varieties)


Athenian (Library of) - 19th century - 2


Athenian library


Babbott, Frank L. Endowment (large and small sizes) [Rudge]


Bailey '71, J. Michael (Gift of) [Stinehour Press]


Baily '08, Harold J. (Given in his memory by his wife [Hanover?]


Baird, Theodore (Purchased from a fund)


Bateson, Mary Catherine (Presented by... in memory of Margaret Mead)


Baxter, Arthur Henry (Presented by...) [Anthoensen Press - 2 colors]


Benson, Lucy Wilson (Presented by...)


Bloom '66 Marshall, Acquisition Fund (Purchased from the)


Bloom '66, Marshall, Fund (Purchased with the)

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Bloom '66, Marshall, Fund (Purchased with the) - mounted

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Boluch, Anna Bohuslawska, and Wasyl (In memory of, from their children) [Stinehour Press]


Borlen '48, Douglas R.F. (A tribute to...) [Stinehour Press]


Braden, Charles W. Transportation Collection [Graphic Arts Workshop/Ray Nash]


Brooks, Gladys (Presented from a fund...)


Brown '19, Arthur F. (A Memorial to; given by his wife)(blue) [Stinehour Press]


Brown '19 Arthur F. (A Memorial to; given by his wife)(blue) [Stinehour Press]


Bryan 1900, George S. (from the library of)


Bush '33, Asahel (Ace) (Presented by the estate of William S. Woodress '33, in memory of Associated Press correspondent killed in action during WW2)


Calmus, Hannah S. (Purchased from...)


Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College (Gift of...) [TEMPLATE]


Class of 1942, Twenty-Fifth Reunion Fund [Hanover Press]


Class of 1944 (gift of a member of... in memory of Prof. Ralph C. McGoun and of Prof Charles Rogers)


Class of 1989 (In memory of Philemon Fong '89, Presented by...)


Cole '27, Charles W. (Fund established in honor of)


Cole, Katharine [Stinehour Press]


College Library (with seal), ca. 1860


Commager, Henry Steele (Presented by)


Commager, Henry Steele (In honor of Henry G. Mishkin)


Converse Memorial Library (E.B. Bird plate)


Cooper '64, John R. & Cooper '88, Kristen E. (Presented to...)


Cowles, Katherine C. (Presented by...)


Crane Fund [Hanover Press]


Cranshaw '39, John A. (Presented by...


Daniels '23, Kurt (Presented to the...Library by) [Oliphant Press]


Delatour '11, Beekman J. (In memory of his wife) [Hanover Press]

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Delatour '11, Beekman J. (In memory of his wife) [Hanover Press] - mounted

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Delta Kappa Epsilon (The Library of the ? Chapter of) [Harbor Press]


Denton, Janice C.


Dickinson, E. Porter (Presented ...by) [Oliphant Press]

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2
Dickinson, E. Porter (Presented ...by) [Oliphant Press] - mounted

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Dickinson Collection, The Emily (Given by Arthur D. Norcross) [Hanover Press]


Duplicate (From Amherst College Library, sold ____ librarian) - 19th Century


Eastman, Joseph B. -Foundation Library [Anthoensen Press]


Eclectic Society (Library of) - 2 types


Emerson, Benjamin Kendall Library (Presented to Geology Dept. by his sons)


Engle '28, Willis T. [Oliphant Press]


Ethier '21, Thomas A. (From the books of) [Cummington Press]


Ethier '21, Thomas


Faculty Library Fund [North Charles Short Design]


Felton '57, Frederick L. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Field, Henry P. Bequest (Marchbanks Press 1956)


Fobes, Francis Howard (From the books of) [Graphic Arts Workshop/Ray Nash]


Fong '89, Philemon (In memory of ... presented by the Class of 1989)


Franklin, Mr. & Mrs. Burt (In honor of John F. Kennedy) [Stinehour Press]


Friends of the Amherst College Library (A Gift of the...)


Friends of the Amherst College Library (Purchased by) [Stinehour Press]

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Friends of the Amherst College Library (Purchased by) [Stinehour Press] - mounted

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Fulton '51, David C. (Presented to the Amherst College Library by) [Oliphant Press[


Funnell, George B. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Gladney, Frank Y. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Goddard, Alpheus John, Class of 1893 (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Goldstein '58, Laurence M. (From the Memorial Collection)


Goodnow '09, David F. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Goodrich '02, Nathaniel Lewis (From the Bequest of...) [Stinehour Press]


Graham, William J., Jr. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Guest, Elizabeth M. and J. Alfred Guest '33 - Book Fund (Purchased from the ...) [Stinehour Press]


Hafey '29, Paul M. (To hold in honor the memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Hagstrom '55 Jack W.C. (The gift of) [Stinehour Press]

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Hagstrom '55 Jack W.C. (The gift of) [Stinehour Press] - mounted

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Hall '39, John Whitney (Presented by...)


Harris '34, John D. (Purchased from)


Heaney, William H. (Presented by...)


Hemley '31, Arnold S. (Memorial Book Fund for History and Judaica)


Heydt '57, Don Mueller (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Hitchcock, President Edward (This volume belongs to the collection of... deposited ... by his sons)


Hitchcock, Memorial Room President Edward ("Gift of... class of ...")


Hitchcock, Memorial Room President Edward ("Property of")


Hoeing '29, Frederick Walbridge (Tribute to) [Stinehour Press]


Holmes '75, Charles S. (The gift of Lincoln Holmes)


Hubbard '39, Edwin S. (From his son, Francis A. Hubbard II, '66) [Stinehour Press]


Humphries '15, Rolfe (Gift of)


Humphries, Rolfe Fund (Purchased from the... contributed by his Amherst friends) [Spiral Press]


Hutchins, Augustus S. Fund for Use in the Study of English [Stinehour Press]


Hyde, Henry Neal Leigh Hunt Collection (Presented by Salem Hyde '28, James W. Hyde '39) [Spiral Press]


Israels Family (Presented by...)


James Hall Library


James Hall Library (From the books of William and Jane Bigelow)


Jeltrup '34, Eric S. [Oliphant Press]


Jewitt '43, David W.P. (Purchased from the fund established by) [Oliphant Press]


Johnson '18, Harold F. (Purchased from the fund given by) [Stinehour Press]


Johnson '32, Olof G. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Keiter '57, Robert E (Presented to...)


Kennedy, John F. (In memory of, gift of Mr. & Mrs. Burt Franklin) [Stinehour Press]


Kimball '17, Bradford, (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


King '73, Henry A. (Given in memory of...)


King, Margaret and Stanley (From the Library of_


Kovacs, Louis (Gift of his son Edward J. Kovacs '28) - [Stinehour Press]


Kuhn '61, Peter (Given in memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Lane '06, Frederick S. (Gift of...)


Lane '36, Joseph S. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Latham, Earl (1910-1977)


Lay '22, Edward Poole Memorial Library (Beta Theta Pi)


Lilienthal '36, Joseph S. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Liss, Louis R. Endowment Fund


Loomis, Frederick Brewster (Memorial Library)


Lord Jeffery Amherst Club [Harbor Press]


Lord - Keyes Fund [Stinehour Press]


Lurcy, George (Presented by...)


Marx, Barbara R.


Maurer, Phyllis A. & Barry D. Maurer '59


Mayo-Smith '09, Richmond (From a fund ... in memory of)


McChesney '08, John (In memory of Mary Scoville McChesney) [Stinehour Press]


McCloy '16, John Jay, (Purchased from the fund given by) [Stinehour Press]


McGoun '27, Ralph C. (Gift of members of Class of 1944 in memory of... and of Prof. Charles Rogers)


McKeon, Newton (Purchased from...)


Mead, Margaret (In memory of... presented by Mary Catherine Bateson)


Mead, William Rutherford [Cartier]


Merrill '37, Clement Fessenden (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Merrill '37 Clement Fessenden, Jr. (In memory of)(mistakenly lists Merrill's class as 1938 MCMXXVIII) [Cummington Press]


Merrill Center for Economics, Southampton, New York (Library of)


Merrill Center for Economics (Presented by) [Marchbanks]


Mishkin, Henry G. (Presented by Henry Steele Commager... in honor of...)


Moon '35, F. Franklin (Purchased from...)


Moore, John Andrew, (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Moore '19, Leonard Page (Presented by...)


Morgan, Vincent (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Morrow '61, Stephen D. (Given in memory of...)


Morrow, Dwight W. Library [Marchbanks Press]


Morse, Anson Daniel (Gift from the library of...)


Morsman '24, Eugene Kimball (Purchased from the fund established by) [Oliphant Press]


Morsman '24, Eugene Kimball (Purchased from the fund established by) [Stinehour Press]


Münch '39, Talbot B. (Presented as a memorial to) - [Merrymount Press]


Norcross, Arthur D. (The Emily Dickinson Collection... Given by...) [Hanover Press]


North College Library (In memory of Henry A. King '73) - [Harbor Press]


Observatory Library ("LBG 1905")


Olds, George Daniel Library [Oliphant Press]


Olds, George Daniel Library of Mathematics (Gift of his wife and children) - [Harbor Press]


Packard, Laurence B. (Purchased from the ... Book Fund)


Packard, Laurence B. (Presented by...) [Oliphant Press]

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Packard, Laurence B. (Presented by ... Memorial Foundation) - mounted

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Pease, Arthur Stanley (Purchased from the bequest of) [Stinehour Press]


Penny, Gerald Black Cultural Center (Given in memory of Stanley I. Posner '30 by the Posner Family)


Phi Gamma Chi (Gift of)


Phi Psi Corporation (From the bequest of the) [Stinehour Press]

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Phi Psi Corporation (From the bequest of the) [Stinehour Press] - mounted

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Pincus '64, Harry G. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Porter '50, John Worthington (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Posner '30, Stanley I. (Given in memory of... by Posner family)


Pratt, Charles M., Class of 1875 (in memory of) - [Merrymount Press]


Pratt '11, Morris (A memorial to) - (small, printed)


Pratt '11, Morris (In memory of) - (large, pictorial)


Pratt, Morris (Dormitory Library) [Stinehour Press]


Pratt, Sherman [Marchbanks Press]


Pratt Cottage Library


(Presented by)(Gummed slips) [Hanover]


Robie, Katherine T. (Presented by...)


Rogers, Charles (Given of member of Class of 1944 in memory of Prof. Ralph C. McGoun and of Prof. Charles Rogers)


Rosenblum, Phillip and Bess (Purchased from... for Elizabethan Book Fund)


Salmon, E. Dwight (To honor... gift of the Class of 1963) [Stinehour Press]


Salisbury, Harrison E. (Gift of the Family...)


Scenna '27, Anthony (Gift of) [Stinehour Press]


Schroeder '59, Edward B. (In memory of)


Schwemm (Presented by...)


Sears (Gift of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation)


Sebestyen, Paul L. (A memorial to; gift of the 1967 varsity soccer team)


Shand '43, Jack (Presented by...)


Skolnick, David and Elsie [Stinehour Press]


Smith, Harry deForest Collection of Greek Letter Printing [Marchbanks Press]


Smith, Harry deForest (From the books of...) [Marchbanks Press]


Smith, Harry deForest & Adela Wood Smith [Hampshire Typo-theatae?]


Social Union (Library of the) -two variants


Social Union (Library of the) - bold type


Society of Inquiry Library


South College Library (Gift of James Turner, 1880) [Harbor Press]


Spectrum Book Fund (Presented by ...)


Sprague-Smith, Charles, Class of 1874, (Comparative Literature Library of)


Stearns Hall Library [Marchbanks Press]


Stitt '18, William Britton (The Eugene O'Neill Collection of) [Stinehour Press]


Stitt '18, William Britton (A memorial to...) [Stinehour Press]


Students Fund (Presented from the...)


Sucsy '59, Richard G. (To hold in honor -the memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Swigert '31, Harry Arnold (A tribute to) [Stinehour Press]


Sylvester Fund (Presented by...)


Taft '57, M. Barnes (Purchased from the fund...) [Oliphant Press]


Talbot, Fritz B., Collection of Irish Literature [Hanover Press]


Thalheimer, Alvin and Fanny B. (Presented as a memorial to... by their grandson Louis B. Thalheimer, Class of 1966)


Thomases, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Judaica Collection [Stinehour Press]


Tilley '57, Peter M. (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]


Tucker, Ervin A. (Presented to...) [Oliphant press]


Turner 1880, James (Gift of...)


Tyler, William Seymour (two variants)


U.S. Government (Presented by the...)


Upham '50, Albert Edward Thompson (To honor... and his grandfather Alberta Edward Thompson, M.D.) [Stinehour Press]


Van Nostrand, M. Abbott Theatre Collection [Stinehour Press]

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Van Nostrand, M. Abbott Theatre Collection [Stinehour Press] - mounted

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Ward, John Williams (Books in American Studies) [Hamilton Newell, printer]


Warde '24, Arthur William (Presented in memory of...)


Washburn '82, George Hamlin (From the library of... Presented by his son, George Edward Washburn of the Class of 1914) [Harbor Press]


Watson, H. Ross


Wellman '12, Sargent H. [Stinehour Press]


Welty '27, Louis S. (Presented by...)


Whicher, George Frisbee (Purchased from the gift of Theta Xi Fraternity in memory) [Stinehour Press]


White, Donald O. (Presented... in honor of...)


Whitney '90, Edward S. Purchased from the income of a fund given by..., for support of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Library) [Stinehour Press]

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Williams, Ralph M. (Gift of...) - mounted

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Wood, Elizabeth & Roland (Personal plate)


Wood '20, Roland A. (Once the book of) [Stinehour Press]


Woodress '33, William S. (Presented by... In memory of Asahel (Ace) Bush '33...)


Wordsworth Collection (Presented by Cornelius H. Patton, Class of 1883) [Harbor Press]


Zigler '57, Paul (In memory of) [Stinehour Press]

Series 3: ENGRAVING PLATES


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Athenian Stencil


Frank L. Babbott


Frank L. Babbott


Converse Memorial Library (2)


Joseph Bartlett Eastman


Morris Pratt


Sprague Smith

Series 4: PRINTING BLOCKS


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Amherst College Library


Ethier Platt (color; black and white)


Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity


Joseph Bartlett Eastman


Mayo-Smith

Series 5: ORIGINAL PRINT MASTERS


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Converse Memorial Library


Purchased from the income of the William Seymour Tyler Fund


Socrates