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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
Kashnor notes, "Showing the settlements of the Caribbee Islands effected by the Treaty of 1783." Kashnor dates as ca. 1790. This may be a reduced size version of I. Prockter's 1762 map. MS note: 975 (on backing). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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496353 1856 November 17-18.