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Series 5: Printed Material, 1925-2014 and undated
The Printed Material series consists of the contents of Hamady’s secretary desk, as well as his library of books, many of which are annotated.
Materials include books, journals, exhibition catalogs, newsletters, sample books, magazines, pamphlets, reviews, directories, and gallery guides.
Subseries 1: Secretary Contents, 1925-2014 and undated
Originally accessioned as Series 5, the Secretary Contents consists of materials kept in Hamady’s desk and includes professional and reference materials.
Material types include catalogs, books, directories, exhibition catalogs, journals, pamphlets and reviews.
In original order.
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/1 Art on Paper, The Weaterspoon Annual Exibition, North Carolina, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/2 Missouri Library Association Quarterly, September 1969
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/3 Among Friends: Notes Regarding the Activity of Papermaking Number 41, 1965-1966
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/4 54th Annual Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors Exhibition, Milwaukee Art center, March 29, 1968-April 28, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/5 51st Exhibition for Michigan Press, the Detroit Institute of Art, May 19, 1961-August 13, 1961
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/6 52nd Exhibition for Michigan Artists, the Detroit Institute of Art, May 18, 1962-July 22, 1962
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/7 Fifty Books of the Year Exhibition, AIGA, 1967
Bound catalog
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/8 Internationale Buchkunst-Asstellung Leipzig, 1971
Soft cover catalog
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/9 Directory of Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, 1925-1974
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/10 New Directions 21, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/11 Journal of The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Spring 1970
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/12 New Directions in Prose and Poetry 23, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/13 Internationale Buchkunst-Asstellung Leipzig, 1971
Hard cover catalog
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/14 American Libraries, April 1973
Feature, The Enduring Perishable Press
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/15 Atlantic Monthly, April 1974
Feature, The Fine Art of Printing
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/16 Albion College National Institutional Experimental Print and Drawing Exhibition, 1972
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/17 Images '71, the University of North Dakota, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/18 The Printer and the Artist, Bertram Rota Ltd., 1974
Two copies, weeded copy from Series 3, Subseries 2, Box 34, Folder 45
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/19 Artrain, On tour for the Upper Midwest Regional Arts Council, 1975
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/20 The Courier, Syracuse University Library, Summer 1975
Feature, A Sense of the Present
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/21 AIGA Book Show, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/22 Fine Print: A Review for the Arts of the Book, vol. 3, no. 4, October 1977
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/23 The Book as Art II, Fendrick Gallery, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/24 The Book as Art, Fendrick Gallery, 1976
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/25 Book Publishing in Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Library School, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/26 Link: The Cleveland Institute of Art Magazine, spring edition, March 1982-June 1982
Feature, Perishable Press Ltd - A Small Press with Big Ideas
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/27 The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, fall edition, September 1982-December 1982
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/28 Newsweek, August 16, 1982
Feature, Reading the Fine Print
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/29 The Fine Printing Conference, Columbia University, May 19-22, 1982
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/30 Fine Print, vol. 7, no. 3, July 1981
BOX/FOLDER 5:1/31 Conjunctions: I, November 1981-January 1982
Publisher's complimentary card laid-in Letter from Walter laid-in
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/1 One Hundred Years of American Fine Printing, Georgetown University, 1981
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/2 American Book Collector, July/August 1981
Feature by Hamady, Papermaking by Hand
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/3 Re: Pages, An Exhibition of Contemporary Bookworks, New England Foundation for the Arts, 1981
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/4 Breaking the Bindings: American Book Art Now (2), May 6, 1983-July 3, 1983
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/5 Typography and the Private Press: An Exhibit, Northwestern University, The Caxton Club, 1981
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/6 Basilisk Press and Bookshop Catalogue 3, London (2), 1981
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/7 Bookbinding: A Living Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1980
Letter by Walter laid-in
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/8 Fine Print, vol. 6, no. 4, October 1980
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/9 Fine Print, vol. 6, no. 3, July 1980
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/10 Fine Print, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1980
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/11 American Book Collector, vol. 1, no. 3, May/June 1980
Feature, A Fine and Private Place
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/12 American Book Collector, vol. 1, no. 2, March/April 1980
Feature, Seventy from the Seventies: A Decade of Fine Printing
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/13 American Book Collector, vol. 1, no. 6, November/December 1980
Editor's slip laid-in
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/14 Fine Print, vol. 5, no. 3, July 1979
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/15 Fine Print, vol. 5, no. 4, October 1979
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/16 Form and Content: The Books of the American Private Presses Today, 1979
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/17 Basilisk Press and Bookshop Catalogue 2, 1979
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/18 The Private Library, vol. 1:4, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/19 Assault on the Book, 1978
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/20 Books at Iowa, November 1978
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/21 Basilisk Press and Bookshop Catalogue 1, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/22 Leipzig International Book Design Exhibition, 1989
Two chemise folders containing prize certificates (laid-in)
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/23 Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/24 The Decorative Arts in Dane County, 1982
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/25 Paper: The Continuous Thread, 1982
Inscribed by author
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/26 Typographic Years: A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century 1925-1975, 1982
Inscribed by author
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/27 Fine Print, vol. 8, no. 4, October 1982
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/28 American Book Collector, vol. 4, no. 3, May 1983-June 1983
Feature, Press Books
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/29 Fine Print, vol. 9, no. 3, July 1983
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/30 News articles (3 sheets) What Makes a Book?, undated
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/31 Bibliography Newsletter, May 1983-November 1983
Review of Breaking the Bindings
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/32 Print News, vol. 5, no. 4, July 1983-August 1983
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/33 Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 30, no. 1, December 1983
Feature, Papermaking Evangelist: Walter Hamady
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/34 Crafts, no. 63, July 1983-August 1983
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/35 Off the Hip, two journal pieces by Hamady with lifting by Wilde, printed at Landlocked Press, 1984
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/36 The Review for the Arts of the Book, January 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/37 Print XL:VI, November 1986-December 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/38 HOW: Ideas and Technique in Graphic Design, November 1986-December 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/39 Drawing, vol. 7, no. 5, January 1986-February 1986
Review of Wilde, 1944
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/40 MCBA, vol. 2, no. 1, July 1986
Pamphlet with newspaper review
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/41 Views '86, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:2/42 Marriage a la Mode: The Aesthetics of Mating, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, 1986
Pamphlet
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/1 80 Years Later: 80th Anniversary of the Guild of Book Workers, Washington, D.C., 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/2 International Biennal of Paper Art/Internationale Biennale Der Papierkunst, 1986
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/3 One sample printing book, annotated with directions, undated
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/4 Against the Grain, 1986
Creator marked Robert Dana interview with Harry Duncan
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/5 Proof binding, undated
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/6 Half-Life: 25 Years of Books, 2005
Barbara Tentenbaum and the Triangular Press
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/7 Binder of Perishable Press Ltd. offerings, undated
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/8 Objects in Transition: Contemporary Book Art, Honolulu Hawaii, 1984
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/9 American Book Collector, vol. 5, no. 2, March 1984-April 1984
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/10 Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1984
Catalog raisonee
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/11 About the Perishable Press, by Kris Hellier, 1984
Term paper
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/12 Alphabet, The Journal of the Friends of Calligraphy, vol. 9, no. 2, March 1984-June 1984
BOX/FOLDER 5:3/13 Making Paper: Wisconsin, 1984
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