Yale Residential Colleges Student Printing Collection
Collection
Call Number: AOB 34
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide representation of the types of work created by student printers, primarily printed by letterpress. Posters, announcements, tickets, and other ephemera were usually created at the residential colleges to advertise events.
Dates
- 1936-2014
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been transferred to Yale University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the student printers.
Arrangement
Organized in three series: Series I. Class and Course Projects; Series II. Lohmann Prize Projects; Series III. Residential College Books and Ephemera.
Series I is arranged alphabetically first by name of instructor, then by chronologically by year and alphabetically by student. Series II is arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by student. Series III is divided into two subseries: Books and Ephemera. Each subseries is arranged alphabetically by the 12 residential colleges, then alphabetically by student.
Series I is arranged alphabetically first by name of instructor, then by chronologically by year and alphabetically by student. Series II is arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by student. Series III is divided into two subseries: Books and Ephemera. Each subseries is arranged alphabetically by the 12 residential colleges, then alphabetically by student.
Extent
25 Linear Feet (31 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The collection contains a wide representation of the types of work created by student printers, primarily printed by letterpress. Posters, announcements, tickets, and other ephemera were usually created at the residential colleges to advertise events.
Biographical / Historical
The twelve residential colleges that make up Yale College have, in the past, each had their own printing facilities. The printing offices were started over a period of 30 years between 1937 and 1967, with Branford, Timothy Dwight, and Jonathan Edwards Colleges supporting the first wave of activity. The presses flourished in the hands of the students who used the facilities to produce advertising ephemera for campus activities and as a means to self-publish. Books were often created for specific Yale courses that taught the technique of letterpress printing. In the days before desktop publishing and the personal computer, letterpress printing was the method of choice for accessible and esthetically pleasing printed materials. As computer production became easier and better through out the 1980s, student interest in the presses waned. In the late 1990s a resurgence of interest in letterpress printing as a historic art form developed and the college presses became active again. The Lohmann Prizes were established in 1967 to honor Carl C. Lohmann 1910, founding member of the Whiffenpoofs and of the Honorable Company of College Printers and Secretary of Yale University from 1927 to 1953. The Lohmann prizes are awarded annually in May to distinguish excellence in undergraduate printing.
- Title
- Guide to the Yale Residential Colleges Student Printing Collection
- Author
- Compiled by Arts of the Book Staff
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Arts Library Special Collections
180 York Street
New Haven CT 06511
203-432-1712
haasalsc@yale.edu
Arts Library Special Collections
180 York Street
New Haven CT 06511
203-432-1712
haasalsc@yale.edu