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Guild of Book Workers Records Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: Gift of the Guild of Book Workers. Photographs: There are photographs in the seminar folders and slides in the exhibit folders. |
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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.
The Guild of Book Workers Library
700 books, journals and videotapes on the book arts assembled by a national organization of book artists and craftspeople. Items in the collection circulate to members of the Guild.
The Guild of Book Workers Catalog of Video Materials
Videos of annual standards seminars, 1984-. Some include copies of the handouts
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.
Technical Leaflet. (Northwest Document Conservation Center), June 1994
Chapters. Chapters in alphabetical order, including requirements and minutes of chapter chairs. Each folder is arranged chronologically.The dates are for the chapter newsletters.
Minutes of Chapter Chairs
August 22, 1997
June 28, 1984
October 15, 1996
November 15, 2000
January 16, 2001
March 13, 2001
July 10, 2001
California Chapter
Winter 2004
Spring 2004
Summer 2004
Fall 2004
Winter 2005
Spring 2005
Summer 2005
Fall 2005
*Missing Winter 2006, Spring 2006, Summer 2006, Winter 2007, Spring/Summer 2007Delaware Chapter
Fall 1996
Winter 1997
Spring 1997
Fall 1997
*Missing 1998, Summer 1999, Winter 2000, Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, 2003-2004, Autumn 2005
Lone Star Chapter
Fall 1990
May 1991
November 1991
July 1992
October 1992
Spring 1993
Fall 1993
Spring 1994
Summer 1994
Fall 1994
*Missing 1995, Summer 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Winter 1997-1998, Spring 1998, Summer 1998, Summer 1999
Midwest Chapter
January 1988
April 1988
July 1988
October 1988
January 1989
May 1989
August 1989
November 1989
March 1990
June 1990
December 1990
April 1991September 1991
March 1992
July 1992
October 1992
January 1993
May 1993
*Missing Fall/Winter 1993, Fall 1994, December 1994, March 1995, June 1995, Fall/Winter 1995, April 1996, July 1996, September 1996, Winter 1996, May 1997
Midwest Chapter (Folder 2)
Winter 1998
Spring 1998
Summer 1998
Fall 1998
Winter 1999
Spring 1999
Summer 1999
Fall 1999
Winter 2000
Spring 2000
Summer 2000
Fall 2000Winter 2001
Spring 2001Summer 2001
Fall 2001
Winter 2002
Spring 2002
*Missing Summer/Winter 2002- 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Winter 2005/06, Fall 2006, Winter 2006/07
Box 6
New England Chapter I
Summer 1982
New England Chapter II
September 1988
December 1988
March 1989
May 1989
December 1989
February 1990
April 1990
May 1990
September 1990
December 1990
March 1991
May 1991
August 1991
October 1991
December 1991
March 1992
April 1992
October 1992
January 1993
March 1993
May 1993
November 1993
January 1994
April 1994
May 1994
October 1994
February 1995
April 1995September 1995
January 1996
March 1996
June 1996
September 1996
January 1997
February 1997
April 1997
September 1997
January 1998
March 1998
April 1998
October 1998
*Missing 1999-2003, February 2004, May 2004, July 2004, September 2004, April 2005, July 2005, March 2006, May 2006, February 2007, April 2007
New York Chapter II
September 1993
October 1994
January 1995
March 1995
April 1995
May 1995
September 1995
November 1995
January 1996
March 1996
October 1996
January 1997
March 1997
August 1997
October 1997
February 1998
October 1998
February 1999
October 1999
January 2000,
March 2000
July 2000
January 2001
July 2001
October 2001
* Missing 2002-2003, February 2004, Winter 2004, Winter 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Spring 2007
Northwest Chapter
Winter 2004
Spring 2005
Potomac Chapter
Spring 1999
*Missing 2000-2005, March 2006, August 2006, March 2009
Box 7
Rocky Mountain Chapter
August 1995
November 1995
February 1996
May 1996
August 1996
November 1996
February 1997
June 1997
September 1997
December 1997
June 1998
September 1998
December 1998
March 1999
June 1999
September 1999
December 1999
March 2000
June 2000
September 2000
December 2000
March 2001
June 2001
September 2001
December 2001
March 2002
June 2002
September 2002
December 2002
March 2003
June 2003
September 2003
December 2003
March 2004,
June 2004
September 2004
March 2005
June 2005
September 2005
March 2006
September 2006
December 2006
March 2007
Southeast Chapter
(Undated)
Vol. 1:no.2
Vol. 2 :no.2-3
Vol. 3:no.1-3
Vol. 4:no.1-3
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.
Box 10
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically
Box 11
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically
Box 12
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically
Box 13
GBW exhibitions, ordered chronologically
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 guest book (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
Videos
