John Fass Papers

John Stroble Fass: Photograph Oh Joan Fass in his one room apartment in the Bronx YMCA. Fass created and printed many of his works in this apartment using small printing presses he designed and built.
John Stroble Fass

Photograph Oh Joan Fass in his one room apartment in the Bronx YMCA. Fass created and printed many of his works in this apartment using small printing presses he designed and built.

Name/Title

John Fass Papers

Entry/Object ID

000

Scope and Content

The John Fass (1890-1973) Papers include 13 boxes of correspondence, sketches, drawings, photographs, book prospectuses, printing samples, and miscellaneous work related to his career as a photographer, graphic artist, and book publisher.

Collection

John Fass Collection

Archive Items Details

Title

Boxes1and 2: Harbor Press

Description

John Fass and Roland Wood formed Harbor Press in a small shop in Manhattan. From 1925 into the 1940s focusing on finely printed limited edition. The boxes contain prospectuses, printed works, and bookplates as well a list of books printed by Harbor Press. The arrangement was done by John Fass and is not in chronological order.

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Boxes 3 and 4: Initials Ornaments Etc

Description

Type specimens, prospectuses, proofs, pencil and ink sketches, newspaper clippings

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Box 5: Miscellaneous

Description

Letters, invitations, prospectuses, a keepsakes. A special item is a complete list of books printed and published by William Edwin Rudge, 1926 (17 pages)

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Box 6: Clippings

Description

Box 6 contains 1920s-30s correspondence, clippings. It also has layouts and proof associated with Bruce Rogers

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Box 7: BR (Bruce Rogers)

Description

Items designed by Bruce Rogers, one of the premier American book designers of the 20th century. Fass and Rogers worked together at the press of William Edwin Rudge in New York

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Box 8: Updike Specimens Ruzicka

Description

Letters calendars and short articles, prospectuses, invitations, Christmas cards,

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Box 9: Book Pages

Description

Pencil sketches, title pages, miscellaneous papers

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Box 10: Prospectuses

Description

Book prospectuses

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Box 11: John Fass Hammer Creek Press

Description

Printings from Fass' Hammer Creek Press. Includes bookplates, articles, reprints of documents, and a type specimen book for Hammer Creek Press. There are also several photographs of his presses and of Fass. Hammer Creek Press from a stream near his childhood home in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He used a turtle as its logo,

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Box 12: Harbor Press

Description

This is the third box labeled Harbor Press. It has not yet been cataloged

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Box 13: B/R (Bruce Rogers)

Description

This is a second box labeled for Bruce Rogers. It has not been cataloged

Create Date

July 21, 2020

Update Date

June 20, 2024