Letterpress Books
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art
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content: Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Linear Feet (Boxes 235-251)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1917
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.carninst, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Letterpress books consist of 75 volumes that chronologically collect all of the Museum of Art's outgoing correspondence from 1896 to 1917. Volumes 1-8 contain the only copy of outgoing correspondence from 1896 to 1900. Duplicate copies of all outgoing correspondence dating from 1901 to 1917 were interfiled in Correspondence (Series 1) by museum staff. Some of the earlier letterpress volumes include indexes that can be found at either the front or back of each book. In many cases, the copy text of the print in these volumes is faint and difficult to read.