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Guild of Book Workers Records
MsC 862
Collection Dates: 1907-2010
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.
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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. There are also photographs in the Midwest Chapter series.
Scope and Contents
This collection is broken into two series: Records of the Guild of Book Workers and Records of the Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. Series I contains financial, membership, and administrative records from the 1940s to the present for the national group. 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.
Series II is comprised of records for the Midwest Chapter. Since we hope to continue receiving addenda from the Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, as far as is possible their records are organized chronologically by year, and alphabetically within the years. An exception are the periodicals, which are kept separate and arranged alphabetically and then by date. Also there are some items without dates, and these, along with the periodicals are arranged alphabetically at the beginning of Series II.
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 ten 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
Series I: Guild of Book Worker Records
Box 1
Administrative materials
Affiliation with American Institute of Graphic Arts
Bulk mailing permit
Bylaws
Certificates of copyright, incorporation, and amendments. 2 folders
Committee reports, 1981, 1982
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
Nominations and ballots. Those that are included in this collection are kept with the biographies, since biographies were required of the nominees. They follow the alphabetical listing in a multiple listing folder
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 some combination of correspondence, requirements, and minutes of chapter chairs. Each folder is arranged chronologically. The chapter newsletters are kept with the library materials.
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
Delaware Chapter
Delaware Valley Chapter
Materials for 2010
Lone Star Chapter
Midwest Chapter. See Series II
Box 6
New England Chapter I
New England Chapter II
New York Chapter II
Northwest Chapter
Margaret Johnson, Don Guyot correspondence, 1979-2004; 1 letter from Jerilyn Glenn Davis; review of the book Bookbinding and Conservation by Laura Young
Potomac Chapter
Box 7
Rocky Mountain Chapter
Southeast Chapter
Useful information
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.
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, 1981, 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)
Obituaries (for individuals not found elsewhere, such as in the biographies)
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 yearbooks 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
Seminars 1982-1990
Box 40
Seminars 1991-1996
Box 41
Seminars 1997-2001
Box 42
Seminars 2002-2006
List 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
2010 Addendum
Box 44
Centenary exhibits
—. CDs
——. Catalog PDF and photographs of works in show
——. Exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
—. Publicity, including events at the Grolier Club in New York, the Special Collections Department at Michigan State University, and an essay in American Craft journal, Feb/March ’07. See also Oversized folder #1
Marking Time exhibition
—. Catalog
—. CDs
——. Catalog photographs, original
——. Catalog photographs, updated. 2 discs
——. Exhibition chair files
——. Installation photographs at Minnesota Center for the Book Arts
——. Online catalog
——. Opening at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, May 2009. Photographs
——. PR and General Information
—. Entry guidelines
—. Exhibition labels. In Box 45
—. Minnesota opening, information
—. Pennsylvania opening, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
—. Publicity
——. Posters (In Oversized folder #1)
——. Publications
—. San Francisco opening
Box 45
—. Exhibition labels
Oversized Box 1
—. Marking Time poster
Series II: Midwest Chapter Records
Box 1
Bonefolder, vols. 1-4 (incomplete)
“Dear Gabrielle”
Guild of Book Workers letterhead
Membership lists, undated
Midwest chapter brochures. See also Oversized Box 1
Midwest chapter member news
Quarto. These are the working files for the newsletter. The finished newsletter is in the GBW library.
Box 2
1984-1988
—. Early files. Includes slides
1989
—. Administrative file
—. Exhibit
—. Membership
1990
—. Administrative file
—. Membership
1991
—. Administrative file
—. Membership
1992
—. Administrative file
—. Membership
1993
—. Administrative file
—. Annual meeting, Valparaiso, Indiana. Photographs
1994
—. Administrative file
—. Membership
1995
—. Administrative file
1996
—. Administrative file
—. Exhibit. Includes photographs, slides, and audio cassette
—. Membership
—. Workshop, Marbling
1997
—. Administrative file
1998
—. Administrative file
1999
—. Administrative file
2000
—. Administrative file
—. Annual meeting
2001
—. Administrative file
—. Stone Eye Project. 16 folders
Box 3
2002
—. Administrative file
—. Conference calls
—. Executive committee minutes
2003
—. Administrative file
2004
—. Administrative file
2005
—. Administrative file
—. Certificate of Incorporation
2006
—. Annual meeting
—. Workshop, Marbling
2007
—. Annual meeting
2008
—. Annual meeting
2009
—. Administrative file
—. Annual meeting
2010
—. Administrative file
2011
—. Administrative file
2012
—. Annual meeting
Miscellaneous undated correspondence