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Photocopy of article "The Fine Art of Printing," by Stephen Brock, from The Atlantic Monthly, April 1974, pages 112-115. The article discusses Harry Duncan and the Cummington Press on pages 113-114.

Scope and Contents Books at Iowa, issue number 2, April 1965, from the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. The article "Bookworms and Type Lice," by Harry Duncan, appears on pages 17-25 of this issue. "Duncan p.17" is handwritten in pencil on the cover and title page, and a checkmark is penciled next to the article in the table of contents. In the article, Duncan discusses a library display of "Private Printing in Iowa City 1957-1964" and the Typographic Library in the University of Iowa School of...

Scope and Contents Books at Iowa, issue number 7, November 1967, from the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. The article "The Cummington Press," by Mary L. Richmond, appears on pages 9-31 of this issue. The article presents a detailed history of the press and a chronological list of publications by the press, from 1939 through 1966, with a 1975 publication handwritten at the end. Annotations handwritten in pencil appear throughout the article. On page 47, below the entry on Mary L. Richmond in the notes...

Scope and Contents Fine Print, volume IV, number 1, January 1978. This issue features the articles "Harry Duncan & The Cummington Press," by Mary L. Richmond (pages 1-4); "Harry Duncan, Maker of Books," by Kay Amert and Kim Merker (pages 4-6); "A Checklist of Books Printed by Harry Duncan," compiler not identified, listing works printed by the Cummington Press and Abattoir Editions in chronological order (pages 9-10); and two pages of illustrations from books at the Cummington Press and Abattoir Editions,...

Scope and Contents Photocopy of article "The Private Press in Iowa," by Dennis C. Wendell, from Missouri Library Association Quarterly, 30 (March 1969), pages 4-9. The article discusses four private presses operating in Iowa City at the time: Prairie Press, operated by Carroll Coleman; Cummington Press, operated by Harry Duncan; Stone Wall Press, operated by Karl Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller; and Qara Press, operated by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. The article notes that Duncan moved to Iowa City on the...

Scope and Contents Printing & Graphic Arts, volume IV, number 1, February 1956. Handwritten on the front cover in pencil are contents notes, "Terence, p. 27, Prairie Press, p. 9."The book notices on page 27 is titled "Terence Illustrated" and describes the book printed at Cummington Press for the exhibit of the works of Karl Ephriam Weston, curated by Mary L. Richmond.The article on page 9 is titled "The Persistent Prairie Press," and describes the history of Prairie Press in Iowa....

Scope and Contents Printing & Graphic Arts, volume V, number 1, February 1957. Pages 9-11 feature the article "Personal observations of the Cummington Press" by Mary L. Richmond, describing Richmond's first meeting with Harry Duncan and Paul Wightman Williams, Richmond's subsequent field trips to Cummington Press while teaching her History of Printing and Book Arts class, the circumstances surrounding the Cummington Press printing of the Terence Illustrated exhibition handbook, the effect of Williams'...

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In the mid-1980s an unidentified Omaha medical doctor explored the possibility of bringing a new condom called Red Stripe that was distributed in Great Britain by Frederick Trading Company to the U.S. market. Included are copies of letters from 1986-1987, a note written in 2016 explaining why the doctor did not pursue FDA approval for the new condom, and an example condom package from Frederick Trading Company.

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The collection of Shelton Hendricks, Ph.D, includes copies of his published articles, material related to honors received by Hendricks from the University of Nebraska at Omaha such as the Order of the Tower at the 2005 commencement ceremony, material from his college years at Tulane including report cards and commencement programs, and copies of Hendricks' M.S. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation.

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This collection is primarily a selection of scholarly articles and published by UNO Mathematics faculty. Also included are selected conference proceedings and materials from UNO Sponsored Projects.

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The UNO Faculty Article Collection consists of two file cabinets containing published articles authored by faculty members of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and its predecessor the University of Omaha. The files are arranged by author. Specific publication details, including titles, topics, and dates, have not been recorded. This collection has not been inventoried or further described.