[Libri] FW: [SHARP-L] Lecture announcement

[James R. Kelly]

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Typ 515.54.296

 

 

 

Thursday, November 7, 5:30 p.m.

Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room

Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture

 

 

Collecting Type on the Page: 
Printing History Libraries in America 

by Paul F. Gehl

 

Several ambitious printing history collections were created in the United
States between 1890 and 1940, during what is often considered the golden age
of American type design and print production. These collections both served
and reflected the increasing power of the printing industry. That of Philip
Hofer was the last-begun, and it is clear that he learned from the strengths
and weaknesses of the earlier foundations. This talk will outline the
typographic ethos of America around mid-century, and then focus in on the
long and cordial relationship between Hofer and his colleagues at the
Newberry Library in Chicago -- three successive curators of the Newberry's
Wing Foundation on the History of Printing (established 1919). As his
collecting grew in scope and sophistication, Hofer began to have a profound
influence on the collecting of type and book arts in Chicago, even as he
attended closely to what his colleagues there were up to.

Paul F. Gehl is an historian of education and printing. He is the fourth
individual to hold the title of Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on
the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, and, since he assumed that
role only in 1987, he is the first Wing curator who did not know the direct
influence of Philip Hofer.

 

For further information please call Monique Duhaime at 617-495-2441 or write
to Duhaime at fas.harvard.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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