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COLLECTION Identifier: 52L-1001

Rosamond B. Loring collection of printed endpapers

Overview

The collection consists chiefly of printed endpapers and a small group of book jackets collected by Rosamund B. Loring.

Dates

  • Creation: 1900-1950
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1920-1941

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Access requires the permission of the Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts.

Examination is by appointment with the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.

Copyright:

Reproductions for publication must be ordered through Houghton Library from Harvard College Library Imaging Services. Permission to publish or distribute images of papers must be sought from the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.

Extent

34 linear feet (28 boxes [17 flat boxes, 11 portfolio boxes])

This collection consists of printed endpapers or endleaves which were removed by Rosamond B. Loring from twentieth century commercial editions. In addition, the collection also includes a few printed book jackets.

The endpapers attached to the pieces of cardbaord were mounted in this manner by Loring herself. The annotations in ink on the mounts are in her hand.

Biographical / Historical

Rosamond Bowditch Loring (1889-1950) was a maker, collector, and historian of decorated papers. She was the author of Marbled papers (1933); Decorated book papers (1942; 2nd ed., with additional material, 1952; 4th ed., with additional material, 2007);"Colored Paste Papers", The New Colophon 2/5 (January 1949): 33-40; Marbled and Paste Papers: Rosamond Loring's Recipe Book [facsimile ed.] (2007).

Arrangement

Arranged into the following series:

  1. I. Printed endpapers
  2. ___A. Small mounted, identified
  3. ___B. Small mounted, unidentified
  4. ___C. Large mounted, identified
  5. ___D. Large mounted, unidentified
  6. ___E. Unmounted, identified
  7. ___F. Unmounted, unidentified
  8. II. Book jackets

Physical Location

Lamont Map Room

Immediate Source of Acquisition

52L-1001. Bequest of Rosamund B. Loring; received: 1952.

Related Materials

Loring's bequest to Houghton Library included her library of paper sample books, books about decorated paper, and books containing examples of decorated papers. These are classified as *52L-1 through *52L-713. Additional books and paper samples have been given by her family or purchased on a fund endowed in her name and are also classed under *52L.

This portion of the Rosamund Loring decorated paper collection that is, printed endpapers or endleaves from twentieth-century commercial editions, is cataloged separately from the largest portion of the decorated paper collection. This larger portion of decorated papers is cataloged as Rosamond B. Loring collection of decorated papers (*52L-1000).

Processing Information

Processed by: Alexis Dinniman with the assistance of Jennifer Lyons.

Processing Information

This finding aid was revised in 2022 to address potentially harmful descriptive language. During that revision, various titles of items were adjusted in December 2022 to humanize and improve the description of indigenous people represented in these materials. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.

Processing Information

This finding aid was revised in 2023 to address outdated and harmful descriptive language. During that revision, contextualizing processing notes were added to the description of one item. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.

Title
Loring, Rosamond B. (Rosamond Bowditch), 1889-1950. Rosamond B. Loring collection of printed endpapers, 1900-1950: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou02019

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

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