Louis A. Holman papers and Holman's Print Shop records
name: label: Creator
content: Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939
label: Creator
content: Holman's Print Shop
label: Creator
content: Goodspeed's Book Shop
label: Names
content: Andrews, John
label: Names
content: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931
label: Names
content: Datziel, John Sanderson
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content: Heintzelman, Arthur William, 1891-1965
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content: Holman, Richard Bourne, 1903-
label: Names
content: Nash, Ray, 1905-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Engravers (printmakers)
label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Prints, American
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content: Wood-engraving
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content: Prints -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Prints -- 19th century
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content: Prints -- 20th century
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content: Map printing
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1991 and 1997 by William Greenbaum, a print dealer. According to Greenbaum, other business records of Holman's Print Shop may have been discarded.
creator: label: Creator
content: Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939
label: Creator
content: Holman's Print Shop
label: Creator
content: Goodspeed's Book Shop
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Illustrator, art editor, and print dealer; Boston, Mass. Holman was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and began work in the bookselling and publishing business in Canada. He moved to Boston in 1889, where he attended Cowles Art School and studied with the painter Charles Woodbury. Holman travelled extensively and contributed illustrations and articles to various popular magazines and worked as art editor of New England Magazine and the Youth's Companion. In 1915, he established a print department at Goodspeed's Book Shop, leaving in 1930 to open his own firm, Holman's Print Shop, where he was joined by his son, Richard Bourne Holman, who ran the firm after Louis' death in 1939 until 1977.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.7 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1870-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.holmloui
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and files on printmakers documenting Holman's career as a Boston print dealer at Goodspeed's Book Shop and the Holman Print Shop.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are correspondence with customers, publishers, family, museums, galleries, and others concerning Holman's business and expertise in the field of prints, ca. 1890-1941; a typescript "What Does a Print Seller Look for in a Print?"; a scrapbook of clippings about the Holman Print Shop, 1931-1937; clippings; advertisements; and exhibition announcements and catalogs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are artist/subject files containing letters and printed materials on Joseph Andrews, Timothy Cole, John Sanderson Datziel, Arthur Heintzelman and the book Old Maps and Their Makers. Included in the Andrews file is a ledger book, ca. 1851-1869, with clippings on his "Plymouth Rock." The Cole file has letters from and about Cole, cancelled checks, biographical sketches, notes, lists of works, clippings, reproductions of work, a bookplate designed by Cole, and photographs of Cole.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION (1.4 linear ft.): Biographical material; memorabilia; diaries, 1925-1938, detailing the running of a print dealership; notes, writings, and lectures; business and financial records, among them guestbooks kept by Holman's Print Shop from its founding until its closing, recording signatures, remarks, and several caricatures from noted artists and collectors; printed material; Richard Holman's research file on John Foster's "A Map of New-England," including correspondence with several noted mid-20th century authorities on American printing and printmaking history, in particular Ray Nash; and photographs.