Ives Street Press Archive
This is from a letter that Abraham Lincoln wrote to Henry L. Pierce in 1859. This kind of short, unbound piece is known as ephemera.
The Ives Street Press, founded in 1979 by Barbara Cash (1930-1997), came to
Special Collections from Sweden, Maine. Mrs. Cash, a graphic designer, received
her BA in Art at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1951.
This degree
was later followed by a BFA (1951) and a MFA (1980) from Yale University. Mrs.
Cash taught letterpress and graphic design at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport
CT (1978-81) and at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, Ct (1981- 1986).
Her press, the Ives Street Press, focused on designing, printing, binding,
and publishing limited edition books and ephemera. The Ives Street press printed
twelve books, sixteen chapbooks, and a variety of broadsides and other ephemera
between 1979 and 1997. Special Collections holds a complete archive of the printed
works of the Ives St. Press, book production notes and instructions, correspondence
between the poet/writer and Mrs. Cash, several copies of Mrs. Cash's master's
thesis The Small Private Press: New England 1979 , and her working library
on paper, typography, and book making.
Mrs. Cash's work has appeared in exhibits at the American Institute of Graphic
Arts in New York (1982,1983), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983), and
the New York Public Library (1984). Books produced by the Ives Street Press may
be found in collections throughout the county, including: the San Francisco Public
Library, the New York Public Library, Yale University Library, Harvard University
Library, and the Library of Congress.
Though the printed books from the Ives Street Press were purchased, the archive
of the papers was donated by George Brower Cash, Barbara Cash's husband (deceased
2002). The print shop of the Ives Street Press, consisting of the Vandercook
SP 15 printing press and all the press and typography equipment was donated at
the request of the late George Cash by his children: Eli Cash, Sarah Cash McCullough,
and Timothy Cash. Mr. Cash, in addition to being an architect, was also a bookbinder
and the printer of the Cellador Press. Some of Mr. Cash's own notes and binding
samples may be found in the archive as well.
Finding Aid: Ives Street Press Archive
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