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Miscellaneous: Scrapbook album

Description: Scrapbook album, grey cloth covered. Decorated with image of classical Greek muse playing pan-pipes. This item is #02905 in Berger's catalogue under the title "Album of Invitations" with date range 1880-1910 and described simply as "Invitations to exhibition openings – A+C" with "A+C" presumably meaning "Arts and Crafts". The album contains many elaborately engraved invitations to various events such as gallery openings, dinners, book launch events, etc. associated with or intended for eminent figures of the Victorian and Edwardian Arts and Crafts milieu such as Gleeson White, Walter Crane, and John Diblee Crace.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870-1999
Call number: 633396
Creator: Berger, Sanford(Opens in new tab)

Series 4. Miscellaneous

Rare Books

This series includes photographs, slides, broadsides, exhibition and gallery posters, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, postage stamps, invitations, notes, personal correspondence, matted letterpress prints, clippings, photocopies of proofs and designs, etc. This series also contains a scrapbook of ephemera (mainly invitations) relating to well-known figures and venues in the Arts and Crafts milieu of late Victorian and early Edwardian London. A partial, item-level container list for this series is included below.

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Discovering Antiques,(73), n.d

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Single subject issue, titled "Arts & Crafts Movement" Watkinson, Raymond, "The Arts & Crafts Movement," 1729-1733 Morris, Barbara, "William Morris and Company", 1734-1739 Burrough, Ben George, "Arts and Crafts Furniture", 1740-1643

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Miscellaneous

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Contents include: Morris print-decorated hard cover folder with contents: TLS and envelope – from Virginia Davis thanking the Bergers for their help and enclosing her article on indigo discharge to be printed in the Journal of the William Morris Society. Surface magazine 12(2) Winter 1987 with Virginia Davis' article "William Morris: Discharge and the Art of Dyeing, Part 1". California College of Arts and Crafts – Summer 1992 Exhibition and Program Schedule. Postcard for Virginia Davis' 1993 exhibition "Fast Forward" at the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. Two postcards from Virginia Davis to the Bergers Other miscellaneous letters, postcards, etc. from Virginia Davis plus a 1982 letter from Fran McManus asking for Berger's help in researching her interest in Morris' dyeing with natural dyes. Morris print-decorated hard cover folder containing mostly ephemera and correspondence mainly among Berger, Dreyfus, and William Peterson regarding Morris' type designs.

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Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin,3(10), [January, 1967]

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Bury, Shirley, "An arts and crafts experiment: the silverwork of C. R. Ashbee", 18-25

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Miscellaneous Research Papers

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Contents include: Copy of thesis with TLS – "More than Roses: The Use of Botanical Motifs in the Decorative Designs of William Morris" by Despina Elkouh. 1989. Photocopy of essay with bibliography "Flowers in William Morris Designs" by Jackson Dodge. Photocopy of proposal for study and student paper (with bibliography) entitled "Swatchbooks and Shopwindows: Morris & Company Marketing 1865-1940" by Abigail Van Slyck. Dated Fall 1984. Proposal for paper proposal and bibliography for "Page design and decoration of Kelmscott Press Books by William Morris" by Ewa Makosa. Photocopy of proposal for paper topic and bibliography "Morris Stained Glass Production and Morris's Socialist Ideals" by Lisa Jacobs. Proposal for paper topic and bibliography "Women and the Influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement" inscribed at top "M. Mallory". Copy of dissertation proposal – "A Study of the Business and Financial Management of William Morris's Kelmscott Press" by Alan C. Smith. University of Michigan School of Library Science. Dated Oct. 13, 1977. Copy of paper inscribed on front "Peter Roberts / Unpublished thesis on / 'Morris and the Art of Dyeing' / 1978. Paper entitled "Shop-Fronts and Swatchbooks: Morris and Company Marketing 1865-1925" by Abigail A. Van Slyck, Fall 1984 Photocopy of paper entitled "Moral Fiber: The Role of Women in Morris and Co." by M. Malloy, Fall 1984 Photocopy of "Statement of Topic" – "…the papers William Morris used in preparing his designs for his finished products". By Nancy Harris – Graduate Seminar Audit. Dated Oct. 11. 1984. Photocopy of proposal for paper and bibliography "Utopia/Morris/The Bauhaus" by Lydia A. Matthews. Dated 10/24/84. Photocopy of paper entitled "William Morris and Walter Crane: Similarities and Differences in Theories of Nature and their Application to Graphic Representation in Wall Paper Design" By Kriss Forghan, October, 1984. Photocopy of proposal for a "Paper Topic" by Ann McLean. Proposal for student paper by Joseph Voelker dated Oct. 25, 1984. Copy of student paper and bibliography "History as Religion in the Text and Image of Kelmscott Books" by Joseph Voelker (Professor Lovel – HA 288). Dated Dec. 13, 1984. Photocopy of (student) paper with bibliography "Design Reform in Nineteenth Century Wallpapers: Reason or Imagination" by Ann McLean. (William Morris Seminar, Prof. Lovell). Dated Dec. 13, 1984. Photocopy of student paper and bibliography "Morris and Ruskin: The practical and theoretical reading of Decorative Arts in the Victorian age." By Tiziana Codenotti (Prof. M. Lovell – Seminar in English Art 288). Dated Dec. 13, 1984. Copy of paper including bibliography entitled "Translations and Transformations: The Impact of the English Arts and Crafts Movement on Germany" by Lydia A. Matthews (Graduate Seminar – Professor Margaretta Lovell). Dated January 5, 1985. Copy of paper entitled "William Morris and Indigo Discharge Printing" by Virginia Davis. Ms signed "With warmest regards, / Virginia Davis /February, 1985.

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Discovering Antiques,(80), n.d

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Single subject issue, titled "The Aesthetic Movement" Holmes, Roger, "The Arts and Crafts Movement and its Influence, 54-55

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