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    • Author/Creator:Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960.
    • Title:Carl Purington Rollins papers, 1880-1983.
    • Physical Description:40 : linear feet.
    • Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
    • Yale Holdings

       
    • Notes:Materials in English.
      Gift of the Rollins family. The 2002 addition acquired by purchase.
    • Organization:Preliminarily organized in twelve series and one addition: I. Correspondence, 1902-1963. II. Writings, 1930-1983. III. Works and Projects by Carl Rollins, 1900-1963. IV. Awards, Honors, and Events, 1933-1963. V. Book Clubs and Bibliophile Groups, 1902-1965. VI. Presses, 1902-1963. VII. Printers and Designers, 1897-1976. VIII. Paper Specimens, 1877-1942. IX. Type Specimens, 1929-1949. X. Library and Museum Publications, 1910-1962. XI. Photographs and Realia, 1902-1958. XII. Notebooks, 1903-1958. 2002 Addition, 1903-1974.
    • Access and use:Curatorial permission required before use.
    • Biographical / Historical note:Carl Purington Rollins was born in 1880 in West Newbury, Massachussets. He attended Harvard University from 1897-1900, and worked at Heintzemann Press in Boston before joining New Clairvaux, a rural Utopian community, in Montague, Massachusetts,in 1903. Rollins taught printing and ran the New Clairvaux Press before the community failed. He established an arts and crafts cooperative at Dyke Mill in Montague, which eventually became a press exclusively called the Montague Press.
      In 1918, Rollins joined the staff of the Yale University Press and was appointed printer to the University in 1920. He designed and printed all Yale publications and ephemera,taught a course in bibliography, and established the Bibliographical Press in the University library for student use. He also established a home press, At the Sign of the Chorobates. He was the recipient of numerous professional awards and prizes and was named Printer Emeritus when he retired from the University in 1948. Rollins married Margaret Dickey in 1915, and they had two children, Margaret and Caroline. He died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1960.
    • Summary:The papers document Rollins's career as a master printer, graphic designer, author, and educator. The collection consists of personal and business correspondence; writings by Rollins and others; materials designed and/or printed by Rollins and others; and research files and notebooks. The materials document Rollins's design and printing work at the New Clairvaux Press, Dyke Mill (Montague Press), and the Yale Press, as well as his home press.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid is available in respository and on the Internet.
    • Cite as:Carl Purington Rollins Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960.
      Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.
      Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
      At the Sign of the Chorobates.
      Heintzemann Press.
      Montague Press.
      New Clairvaux Press.
      Bibliographical Press.
      Yale University Press.
      Collective settlements--Massachusetts--Montague.
      Printing--Connecticut.
      Printing--Massachusetts.
      Utopian socialism--Massachusetts.
    • Genre/Form:Letterpress printing.
      Type specimens (documents)
    • Occupation:Printers.