Rare Books
Contains:
Box of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Sheets of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Morris-print fabric covered presentation box with label plaque – contains photographs, label text, and catalog for "Celebrating William Morris: Selections from the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection" – 1997 exhibition at the Huntington.
"The Morris Work Book" , "The Morris Essay Book" (2 copies of each). Commemorating the 1975 exhibition "Morris & Co.", Stanford Art Gallery.
Box of number labels. Unidentified use.
Set of labels for Kelmscott books and proofs. Unidentified use but possibly for the exhibition "William Morris Drawing and Trial Designs for the Kelmscott Press"
Oversized manila envelope containing labels and wall text for the 1979 exhibition "Morris and Company: The Stained Glass" at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art.
Typed page headed "Binder's Notes – December 21/22 1974 / Kelmscott Press – Specimen Book/ Property of Sanford Berger" signed by Gale Herrick, Binder.
Oversize cardboard folder ms. labeled "Large negatives of William Morris" containing 2 copy negatives mounted on masking sheets from San Jose Blue Print company. One depicts William Morris and another gentleman (this is not from a photograph – it appears to be an image of a painting) and one of Morris' famous portrait photographed by Frederick Hollyer
Poster "The legacy of William Morris" – lists various exhibitions and lectures centering around the exhibition "Morris & Co." held at the Stanford Art Gallery, March 4 – May 4, 1975.
Four posters for the exhibition "The Craftsman Style: From Roots to Revival" held Sept. 10 – Oct. 29, 1983 at the Santa Cruz City Museum.
Thirteen posters for exhibition "Art Nouveau: Objets D'Art 1900" at the Union Gallery – StudentUnion – SJSU (probably San Jose State University).
Six photocopies(?) of varying sizes and of varying size views of woodcut initial "B".
Nine posters for "The legacy of William Morris".
Reproductions/mock-up of Morris design (ancathus) - 2 oversized sheets in plastic sleeve– on one ms. inscribed "This overlay for /invitation: / sheet @ 58.5% / shoot for window on invitation?"
Textile banner from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris". Photo album. Ms (calligraphic) inscription "for/The Huntington 'Family'/ with / "Great Admiration & Appreciation"/ from / "Helen & Sanford Berger". Contains 53 dated, colored photographs from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris" October 25, 1996 – January 5, 1997.
In envelope ms inscribed "Sandy Berger":
Two (2) furniture tags – one from the Craftsman Workshops of Eastwood, NY and one from the Gaines-Walrath Co, of Oakland, CA.
Eleven (11) color photographs possibly of the exhibition "The American Craftsman" (1964) at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York City.
Exhibition catalogue – "From the Kelmscott Press: An Exhibition of Books, their Bindings and Pages" held January 19- - August 3, 1975 at the Low Art Museum, University of Miami.
