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Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping from The Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pittsfield, MA, March 12, 1955," of an article titled "Cummington Press Keeps Alive an Ancient Art, by S. Lane Faison Jr., chair of the Art Department at Williams College. The article is accompanied by a photograph of Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams at the press and reproductions of three of Williams' illustrations from The Hovering Fly by Allen Tate (Cummington Press, 1947). The article discusses Mary L. Richmond's exhibitions at the...

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Photocopies of the title page and two unnumbered pages from the book "Methods of Book Design: The Practice of an Industrial Craft," by Hugh Williamson, London: Oxford University Press, 1956. The two pages comprise Figure 49 of "Methods of Book Design" and reproduce pages 10 and 9 (in that order) from Five Prose Pieces (Cummington Press, 1947), showcasing Wightman Williams's "unconventional book illustration" and analyzing Duncan's page format.

Scope and Contents This is the "Flamer inventory" referred to in notes throughout this finding aid. As a part of the donation process, before the materials from Mary L. Richmond were received by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the entire collection was appraised in October 1977 by Richard Flamer of the Antiquarium Bookstore, Omaha, Nebraska. For decades, this Flamer appraisal served as the de facto inventory list and finding aid of the Mary L. Richmond Cummington Press Collection. There are two versions...

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Small collection consisting of reproduced documents pertaining to Bertha Mengedoht Hatz, arts patron and donor to the University of Omaha. Items in the collection include family photographs, newspaper clippings relating to Hatz’s donations and her 1963 postmortem endowment to the University of Omaha, a photograph of Hatz’s donated items on display, and a photocopy of Hatz’s last will and testament.

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Color photocopies of the front cover, title page, and each illustrated page from the book Blackberry Winter, by Robert Penn Warren (1946). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

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Color photocopies of the front cover, title page, and each illustrated page from the book Esthétique du Mal, by Wallace Stevens (1945). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

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Color photocopies of all illustrated pages from the book Five Prose Pieces, by Rainer Maria Rilke (1947). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

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Black and white photocopy of the 1940 annual volume of From This Hill, a collection of eleven poems and a short story, with contributions from Margaret Currier, Harry Duncan, Raphael Hayes, Harriet Anderson, Jane Gray Ward, and Samuel French Morse. Of the 217 copies of this book originally printed, 200 were destroyed by mutual agreement of the contributors. This is a reproduction from the Xerox copy of Jack Hagstrum, with descriptions of pages and a color photograph of cover.

Scope and Contents Black and white photocopy of the 1941 annual volume of From This Hill, a collection of poems by Jane Gray Ward, Harry Duncan, Milton Klonsky, Barbara Howes, Elaine Gottlieb, Angelo Bruno, and David Newton, with woodcuts by Zola Marcus and Frederick Marantz, cover by Ralph Pendleton. Also included are correspondence and receipts for certified mail, showing that Barbara Smith sent the original copy of the book to Mary L. Richmond on October 1, 1967, and Richmond sent the book back to Smith on...

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Color photocopies of the title page and each illustrated page from William Blake's Genesis (Cummington Press, 1952). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

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Color photocopies of all illustrated pages from the book The Hovering Fly, by Allen Tate (1949). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

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Color photocopies of all illustrated pages from the book Three Academic Pieces, by Wallace Stevens (1947). The full text of the book is not included. The copies are made in compliance with fair use doctrine, solely for use as an aid to identification and contextualization of Wightman Williams's original artworks in the Mary L. Richmond collection.

Scope and Contents Color or black and white photocopies of illustrations by Wightman Williams from various works published by Cummington Press, including Two Conceits for the Eye to Sing, If Possible, by Allen Tate (1950); The Cricket, by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1950); The Traveler, by Donald E. Stanford (1955); An Herb Basket, by Richard Eberhart (1950); Fragment of a Meditation, MCMXXVIII, by Allen Tate (1947); The Book, and Other Poems, by Harvey Shapiro (1955); Three Poems, by Yvor Winters (1950);...