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Scope and Contents
This collection contains financial, membership, and administrative records from the 1940s to 2001. Included are materials for publications and exhibitions. Nearly three hundred brief biographies of members are contained in these records.
Note:The annual reports from the founding in 1906 through 1946 are contained in the Guild's year books.
After 1962, the annual reports appear in The Guild of Book Workers' Journal.
Historical Note
The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to promote the book arts and to provide standards for the field. It now has eight regional chapters. The Guild sponsors a Standards of Excellence Seminar every year in addition to exhibitions every two to three years.
Box Contents List
Box 1
Administrative materials
Affiliation with American Institute of Graphic Arts
Bulk mailing permit
Bylaws
Certificates of copyright, incorporation, and amendments. 2 folders
Disaffiliation with American Institute of Graphic Arts
Executive Committee Correspondence,1947-1996
Box 2
Executive Committee Minutes, 1949-2001. 7 folders
ISBN and ISSN #
Job descriptions
Executive committee and chapters
Supply Committee
Legal Suits
Officers, Executive Committee
Box 3
Old Member Correspondence. 9 folders
Box 4
Publicity Committee Correspondence
Calligraphy
Calligraphy correspondence, 1950-1987. 5 folders
Conservation, Preservation, Restoration,1962-2000. 4 folders
Box 5
Conservation, Preservation, Restoration,1962-2000. 1 folder
Technical Leaflet
Chapters. Chapters in alphabetical order, not when they were founded, including requirements and minutes of chapter chairs. Each folder is arranged chronologically. 11 folders
Minutes
Individual Chapters, folders 1-4
Box 6
Individual Chapters, folders 5-9
Box 7
Individual chapters, folders 10-11
Exhibitions. GBW exhibition scrapbook compiled by Laura Young, dating from the 31st exhibition in 1949 to the forms for the 75th exhibition in 1981.
Correspondence, 1941-
Catalogs, 1959-2006
Box 8
Non- GBW Exhibition catalogs
Box 9
Note: Exhibition invitations, notices, catalogues, photographs, reviews, and correspondence, wherever possible, arranged chronologically from 1907-2006.
GBW Members in other exhibitions (other exhibition catalogues, articles, and reviews featuring GBW members)
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically. Includes slides.
Folders 1-22
Box 10
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically, folders 23-36
Box 11
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically, folders 37-43
Box 12
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically, folders 44-47
Box 13
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically, folders 48-51
Finances, 1970 through mid-year report of 2002-2003. 9 folders
Folders 1-3
Box 14
Finances, 1970 through mid-year report of 2002-2003
Folders 4-9
Grants and Funding
Investments, 1980-1982
Tax Status and correspondence
Library
Formation and lists of books, 1960s
Box 15
Library, 1970-1999. 2 folders
Catalog, 2003
Logo competition, 1958-1959 and 2004-2005. 2 folders
Membership
Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Membership
Honorary Members
Allen-Horton
Box 16
Kyle-Young
Box 17
Individual members biographical sheets
Aaron-Clarkson
Box 18
Cobbs-Fox
Box 19
Franck-Ingmire
Box 20
James-Lewisohn
Box 21
Lockshin-Nevins
Box 22
Nierengarten-Rummonds
Box 23
Russell-Swartzburg
Box 24
Tarlau-Young
Box 25
Early membership lists
Membership addition and subtractions, 1968-1989
Membership committee reports, 1950-1995
Membership correspondence. (Old membership correspondence, originally sorted by Laura Young up to 1974 and resorted by Barbara E. Kretzmann in 2004 in alphabetical order and then chronological, discarding unnecessary form letters and adding questionnaires and correspondence to individual files. In other words, if a member had or has an individual file, the documentation should be there and not here.)
Membership forms, 1962-1997
Membership lists, 1962-1978, 1983-2003
Membership, new members, 1975-1978
Box 26
Miscellaneous
75th Anniversary exhibition, hand bound (2)
Archives questionnaire census. 3 folders
Decorated paper
Box 27
Diagrams and photos
Guest book, 1944-1954
Ledger book, 1927-1947
Hand-bound guestbook (Susan Share)
Notebook (Edith Diehl)
Papermaking
Parchment
Pre-standards questionnaire, members, 1971
Box 28
Printing
Standards correspondence, 1960-1961, 1971-1983
Supplies, supply committee, suppliers
Box 29
Programs, 1950-1986. 6 folders
Publications
Brochures, bookplates and bookmarks
Box 30
Directories
Membership
Box 31
GBW supply directories
Journal
Correspondence about the Journal. Folders 1-12
Box 32
Correspondence about the Journal. Folders 13-27
Guidelines for the Journal
CDs, previous editor
Box 33
Vol. 1-21
Box 34
Vol. 22-41
Box 35
Newsletter
[January 1976?]-October 1999
Box 36
December 1999-April 2007
Book reviews for the newsletter
Correspondence relating to the newsletter
Questionnaire done for the newsletter
Redesign of the newsletter
Boxes 37 and 38
Yearbooks. Individual year books 1906-1946. First bound volume covering 1906-1916 was bound by Helen Haskell Noyes for Emily Preston and dedicated to Katherine Nash. The first volume, 1906-1916, was repaired by Tom Conroy on April 6, 1995 and his notes are contained therein. First issue of 1906 missing, but present in the bound copy.
Box 39
Seminars 1982-1990
Box 40
Seminars 1991-1996
Box 41
Seminars 1997-2001
Box 42
Seminars 2002-2006List of all seminars. Includes a list of all presenters at all standards seminars
Vendor information, 1991-2006
Box 43
Study Opportunities
Booklets and supplements
Correspondence, 1974-1987
Questionnaire, 1975
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