Douglas McMurtrie Papers
Coll310
McMurtrieDouglas Crawford
1919-1944
1919
1944
2 boxes (1.5 linear feet)
2
boxes
1.5
linear feet
This collection contains the typographical scholarship of Douglas Crawford McMurtrie between 1919 and 1944. There are few instances of other authors that wrote on similar subjects or publications that are published in German, although majority of the materials are written in English. Those publications have been kept in the collections and interwoven into the arrangement of the collection.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
410-455-2353
speccoll@umbc.edu
Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (July 20, 1888- September 29, 1944) was an American typeface designer, historian, and one of the most important bibliographers of printing. After leaving Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before graduating, he worked as a newspaper reporter and printing broker. Over several years, some of McMurtie's earliest and noted appointments were as general manager of the Cheltenham Press, then as printing manager of the Columbia University Printing Office, the Arbor Press, and Conde Nast Press. McMurtie designed two typefaces, helped design the format of the New Yorker Magazine, and was instrumental in forming the Continental Type Founders Association, which imported types from Europe, serving as the company’s first vice president. In the mid 1920s, he became the editor of the prestigious Ars Typographica magazine. Later in his career, McMurtrie became the typographic director of the Cuneo Press before becoming the director of advertising and typography at Ludlow typograph Company.
The Douglas McMurtrie Papers are organized chronologically by date and then alphabetically.
This collection is open for research. There are no restricted materials.
Permission required for all reproductions requests. UMBC is the copyright owner.
Douglas McMurtrie Papers, Collection 310, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).
Finding aid available.
The collection history is unknown. Special Collections staff assumes materials were brought in by the previous curator but no provenance is available. The collections whereabouts before UMBC is unknown in addition to no notes of if Douglas McMurtrie’s estate is the donor or if a separate donor was responsible to sending materials to UMBC.
The Newberry Library- Modern Manuscript's Inventory of Douglas McMurtrie Papers, 1850-1944 (https://explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/newberry/72/jw87r0w/)
McMurtrie,Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford) 1888-1944
McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944--Archives
Printing.
Printers --Archives.
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(#325) Printing for the Inhabitants of the Island of Hainan, China
1919
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(#377) Geographic Names: Their Spelling as a Factor in Typographic Style
1921
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(#5) Anforingstecknets Uppkomst och Utveckling;
1922
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(#378) A List of Books on Typographical Style and Proofreading
1922
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(#381) Typographical Style Governing the Use of Marks of Quotation in Italian Composition
1922
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(#315) The Cost- Finding System of A French Printer in the Eighteenth Century
1923
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(#383) To the Inland Printer on its Fortieth Birthday
1923
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(#571) Typography- Announcing Vanity Fair Capitals
1923
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(#69)Types and Typefounding in Germany, The Work of Christian Egenolff"
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(#67) The Brother Voskens and Their Successors
9041
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(#351) American Type Design in the Twentieth Century
1924
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(#353) O tvorbe pisma ve Spojenych Statech Severo- Americkych
1925
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(#235) A Note On North Carolina Printing History
1928
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(#249) The Price of Printing in Philadelphia, 1754
1928
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(#295) A Project for Printing in Bermuda, 1772
1928
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(#71) The First American Paper Trade Agreement
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(#399) The Photomontage, A New Illustrative Technique
10928
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(#116) James Johnston, First Printer in the Royal Colony of Georgia
1929
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(#73) Present State of Printing and Bookselling in American by Henry Lemaine
1929
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(#403) What is Modern in Typography?
1929
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(#405) Active- age Typography
1930
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(#407) The Fundamentals of Modernism in Typography
1930
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(#13) The Introduction of Printing into Italy
1930
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(#409) Some Elementary Principles of Typography
1930
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(#410) Structure in the New Typography
1930
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(#404) Typographic Ornament
1930
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(#127) Pioneer Printing in Illinois
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(#326) Memorandum on the First Printing in Ceylon
1931
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(#126) Notes in Suppliment to "The First Printers of Chicago"
1931
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(#261) Pioneer Printing in Tennessee
1931
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(#201) Pioneer Printing in Nebraska
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(#85) Pioneer Printing in Minnesota
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(#172) Pioneer Printing in Maine
11749
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(#187) Pioneer Printing in Mississippi
11749
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(#273) Pioneer Printing in Washington
11780
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(#174) Pioneer Printing in Maryland
11902
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(#252) Prioneer Printing in Rhode Island
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(#328) Sydney Curfew Law was Premier Printing Produced in Australia
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(#236) Pioneer Printing in North Carolina
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(#138) Pioneer Printing in Iowa
12024
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(#413) Advertising Typography
1932
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(#152) Antecedent Expericne in Kentucky of William Maxwell, Ohio's First Printer
1932
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(#574) Aus den Sammlungen des Deutschen Buchmuseums: Vom Amerikanischen Buchdruck und Seiner Erforschung
1932
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(#124) The Beginning of Printing in Idaho (Sonderabzug aus dem Gutenberg- Jahrbuch)
1932
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(#414) Calendar Typography and Design
1932
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(#415) The Economy of Replacing Obsolete Typefaces
1932
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(#416) Effective Typography and Economy, Reproducing a Speech made before Atlanta Prints
1932
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(#291) The First Printing in Alberta
1932
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(#296) The First Printing in Dominca
1932
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(#106) Pioneer Printing in Connecticut
1932
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(#245) Pioneer Printing in Oklahoma
1932
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(#417) Rules and Their Possibilities
1932
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(#547) The Typography of an Active Age
1932
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(#419) Typography Overseas
1932
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(#216) Prioneer Printing in New York
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(#331) The Early Vernacular Press in India
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(#265) Pioneer Printing in Texas
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(#145) Pioneer Printing in Kansas
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(#269) Pioneer Printing in Utah
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(#165) A Louisiana Decree of 1770 Relative to the Practice of Medicine and Surgery
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(#274) Wash there a printing press in Washington in 1844?
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(#129) The Rise of Printing in Mount Morris, Illinois
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(#420) City Printers and Country Competition
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(#421) Contemporary European Typography
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(#188) The Earliest Extant Mississippi Imprint
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(#15) The Earliest Use of Type Ornament?
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(#330) Early Mission Printing Presses in India
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(#263) An Early Tennessee Paper Mill
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(#16) An Example of 15th Century Proofreading
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(#332) The First Printing at St. Helena
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(#237) The First Twelve Years of Printing in North Carolina with a bibliography of the issues of the North Carolina press, 1749-1760
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(#423) Fitness to Purpose vs. Beauty in Book Typography
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(#257) Four South Carolina Imprints of MDCCXXXI
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(#425) The Layout of Illustrations
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(#426) March of Lead Soldiers
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(#189) The Mississippi Militia Law of 1799
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(#427) The Nagra Colors for Printing Inks
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(#428) New Architecture Significant of the New Typography
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(#333) Pioneer Printing Press on the Island of Madagascar
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(#258) Two Georgia Printed acts of 1757 and 1763
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(#432) Uncommon colors in Printing Inks the Most Effective
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(#134) The First Printing in Indiana
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(#434) Demand for Readers' Time Your Real Competition
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(#80) Det Forsta Trycket Pa Svenska I Americka
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(#298) The Early Press of Jamaica
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(#19) Erhardt Ratdolt, "The Father of Typographic Decoration"
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(#119) Located Georgia Imprints of the Eighteenth Century Not in the DeRenne Catalogue
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(#436) Modern School of Typography and Its Present Status
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(#334) A Printing Press at St. Helena in 1806
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(#364) Types Grow Tall
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(#443) Upper and lower case Pays
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(#447) Specimens showing typogrphic stype of page heaqding for school and college yearbooks...
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(#207) A Further Note on the New Jersey Acts of 1723
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(#202) The General Epistle of the Latter Day Saints
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(#335) A Memorandum on the History of Printing in the Dutch East Indies
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(#446) Selling Printing to Meet the Sales Requirements of the Customer
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(#316) Stereotyping in Bavaria in the Sixteenth Century
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(#283) The Sweetwater Mines: A Pioneer Wyoming Newspaper
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(#141) Two Early Issues of the Council Bluffs Press
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(#449) Typography of Magazines and House Organs
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(#225) Additional Geneva Imprints, 1815-1849
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(#336) A Memorandum of Early Printing on theIsland of Malta
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(#135) The Need of a Printer in Indiana Territory
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(#227) A Short-Title List of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed in Auburn, NY 1810 to 1850
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(#453) Typographic Display in Retail Advertising
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(#454) Proofs of House Organ Headings
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(#229) A Bibliography of Books and Pamplets Printed at Ithaca, N.Y. 1820-1850
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(#247) The First Printed Message of the First Governor of Oregon
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(#193) The Mississippi Territorial Session Laws of May, 1802
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(#344) Negotiations for the Illinois Salt Springs, 1802-1803
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(#477) American Imprints Inventory: The Historical Records Survey, Manual of Procedure
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(#346) An Early Description of Middle Tennessee
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(#482) A Suggested Program for Augmenting Materials for Research in American Libraries
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(#299) A Broadside Issued at Mobile
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(#232) A Bibliography of Books and Pamplets Printed at Canadaigua, New York 1799-1850
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(#132) The Contributions of the Pioneer Printers to Illinois History
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(#347) The Future of Chicago- in 1834
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(#337) A Malta Imprint of 1643
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(#22) Some Facts Concerning the Invention of Printing
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(#507) The 300th Anniversary of the Printing Press in the United States
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(#476) Further Progress in the Record of American Printing
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(#38) Boxmakers Join Printers to Commemorate 500th Anniversary of Invention of Printing
14793
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(#504) Gutenberg's Life Recordings in Documents
14793
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(#45) The Invention of Printing and Its Five Century Progress
14793
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(#39) The Chicago Dinner to Commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing
14885
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(#506) Dinner to Commemorate the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing
14885
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(#36) Advertising and Publicity Spotlighted by Printing's 500th Anniversary
1940
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(#318) A Bibiography of the History of Printing in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, as compiled in 1861
1940
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(#320) A Bibliography of Materials on the History of Printing Published in the Netherlands in the Nineteeth Century
1940
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(#24) Der Buchdrunk Seine Erfindung und sein Nutzen der Menschheit
1940
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(#26) An Essay on the Invention of Printing by John Bagford;
1940
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(#28) The Life and Work of Johann Gutenberg as recorded in comtemporary documents
1940
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(#47) A Portfolio of Informational Articles on the Invention of Printing and the Beginning of Papermaking in the United States
1940
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(#585) Printing Publications
1940
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(#48) Printing: The Story of its invention and its service to mankind
1940
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(?) The Rotarian
1940
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(#55) War Blacks Out Celebrations in Shrine Citites of Printing
1940
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(#522) Footnotes: The Bulletin of The Friends of the Library
1941
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(#35b) Proposal in 1855 for a Typographic Council to meet in Brussels to determine the facts regarding the Invention of Printing
1941
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(#462) Una Asociacion que Fomenta la Ensenanza de la Impenta
1941
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(#304) A List of Printing Offices Currently Operating in the Republic of Guatamala
1942
2
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(#314) A Preliminary Check List of Published Materials Relating to the History of Printing in Venezuela
1942
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(#184) A Printed Broadside dated at Detroit, January 26, 1790
1942
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(#461a) The Printing Industry After the War
1942
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(#133a) Project for a Newspaper in Chicago in 1833
1942
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(#533) The First Printing on the Island of Tobago
1943
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30
(#525) Pioneer Printing in Ohio
1943
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(#514) A Report in the April, 1848, on the Discovery of Gold and Other Minerals in California, and on the People, Commerce, Agriculture, Customs, Religion, Press, etc. of the New Pacific Coast Territory
1943
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(#543 and 544) Printing Press versus Tyranny
February-April 1944
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(#541) The French Underground Press And Its Support of de Gaulle
1944
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(#300) The First Printing in Jamaica
undated
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(#60) Johann Guturky (Coast to Coast NBC Broadcast to Honor)
undated
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(#349) Outline Captials of a New Design, An Announcement by the Conde Nast Press
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Typographical Samples & Original Listing
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