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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevated landscape view of the harbor and city of Newport, Rhode Island, showing sailboats in the water, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Rhode Island, factories and pastures and orchards, with busts of William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins, two signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Visual Materials
"Issued by the society copyright, 1957"--recto, lower left corner. "Wallis E. Howe FAIA Des. & Del., 1957"--recto, lower right corner. Illustration of historic buildings in Newport, Rhode Island with structure name and construction date.
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