Jack Werner Stauffacher papers
name: label: Creator
content: Stauffacher, Jack Werner
label: Names
content: Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Cook, Gordon
label: Names
content: Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Occupation
content: Publishers -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Publishers and publishing
label: Topic
content: Printing
label: Topic
content: Book design
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1986 by Jack Werner Stauffacher.
creator: label: Creator
content: Stauffacher, Jack Werner
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Typographer, publisher, and designer; San Francisco, Calif. Born 1920. Stauffacher has collaborated with many Bay Area writers and artists, including Hassel Smith, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Sam Francis, Gordon Cook, and Henry Miller, in the creation of notable publications from his Greenwood Press.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1956-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.staujack
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4046 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 16 letters between Stauffacher and Gordon Cook, written while Stauffacher was in Italy researching the history of printing, and 2 letters from Henry Miller to Stauffacher concerning Miller's books: Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Quiet Days in Clichy, and The World of Sex. Also included are 32 unsigned prints and drawings by Cook for a collaborative book with Stauffacher, and a photograph of Cook.