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The collection consists of stage lighting company catalogs.

This collection contains printed matter produced by students at various University Presses.

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.

The Ladislav Sutnar Collection documents the post-war graphic design career of Ladislav Sutnar from 1945 to 1975 through examples of publications and ephemera he designed for specific clients. Sutnar worked for a variety of clients, including RCA, Knoll, the AIGA, and the Museum of Modern Art. The collection also includes letterhead and promotional materials he designed for himself.

The collection contains material created by Norman Walsh Taylor related to his time at Yale Drama School, Union Theological Seminary, and other playwriting endeavors. It includes theatrical production photographs, scripts, class notes, and some biographical memorabilia.

The collection contains tissue paper cut-outs and tracings of architectural elements from Thai Buddhist temples and wooden structures mounted on heavy colored paper; Thai mural tracings from the Ramayana Hindu epic; batik prints on paper (not identifiable as necessarily of Thai origin); and South Asian temple flags with inscriptions in Nepali or possibly Tibetan.

The Bradbury Thompson Collection consists of examples of Thompson’s graphic design work including postage stamps, logos, and book, magazine, and corporate publication designs. The majority of the collection consists of Thompson designs that were a part of the Westvaco-sponsored exhibit, “Bradbury Thompson: Innovative Designer,” which was exhibited at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library in 1992.

The collection comprises ephemeral type specimens in a variety of formats, including pamphlets, single sheets, and broadsides.

This collection comprises seven half-bound, typescript volumes. Six are catalogues, compiled by Herbert M. Vaughan, of various bookplate collections held by the National Library of Wales; one is an index of artists and engravers of bookplates compiled by George H. Viner and based on catalogues produced by Vaughan.

The collection contains 121 unused bookplate specimens designed by Vytautas O. Virkau, including ex-libris for both individual and institutional patrons.

Jessica Helfand, a graduate of the Yale School of Art Graphic Design Program (MFA ‘89) and a respected critic of visual culture, collected hundreds of examples of the volvelle format. In December of 2004, Helfand donated the collection to the Arts Library.

The collection includes programs, photographs, and stage directions related to Cupid and Psyche, a masque performed in 1916 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. The collection also includes architectural drawings by Walls for a theater at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, and correspondence related to Walls’s consultations with the Display Stage Lighting Co., Inc.

This collection comprises a small number of bookplates by Rex Whistler as well as a few related materials, including correspondence and ephemera.

The Ken White Collection documents the graphic design career of Ken White from 1964 to 1985 through examples of publications and ephemera he designed for specific clients. White worked for a variety of clients, including IBM, Better Homes and Gardens, and the Phoenix Art Museum.

The collection contains a variety of corporate publications, including annual reports and other promotional materials.

The collection contains a variety of design-related printed ephemera collected by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand in the course of their work as principals of Winterhouse Design and later Winterhouse Institute.

The collection contains published as well as archival materials relating to the life and works of Ezra Winter (1886-1949). The collection reflects research undertaken by Jessica Helfand for the “Ezra Winter Project,” a visual biography of Ezra Winter published online in 12 parts with Design Observer, the leading international graphic design blog of which Helfand is a founding editor.

The collection consists of a variety of pamphlets, booklets, and other ephemera designed by Pentagram.

The collection comprises type specimens collected by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand in the course of their work as principals of Winterhouse Design and later Winterhouse Institute.

The collection consists of first issues of journals ranging from small press and literary to popular culture.