Conversations on type and printing
Subtitle: and related material
By: Carroll Timanus Harris; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1967. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1976 :
Contributors: Teiser, Ruth.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1967
Subjects: Mackenzie & Harris.; Book Club of California.; Printers -- California -- San Francisco.; Type and type-founding -- California -- San Francisco.; Labor unions -- California.
Description: Comments on early interest in typography and work in the east before coming to California; his work for the Monotype Composition Company in San Francisco, and the formation of Mackenzie and Harris; San Francisco fine printing tradition; Bruce Rogers, Frederic W. Goudy, the Taylor brothers, John Henry Nash, the Grabhorns, the Kennedys, and printers; labor relations in printing industry in San Francisco; interest in Book Club of California, the Roxburghe Club, etc. Photographs and a copy of memorial tribute written by Ruth Teiser inserted.
Table of contents: value: Reel 1: track 1: Apr. 25, 1967, 1316 ft.; track 2: May 1, 1967, 1274 ft.; value: Reel 2: track 1: May 4, 1967, 1022 ft.; track 2: May 8, 1967, 951 ft.; value: Reel 3: track 1: May 11, 1967, 1084 ft.; track 2: May 16, 1967, 638 ft.; value: Reel 4: track 1: May 25, 1967, 635 ft.; track 2: blank; value: Reel 5: track 1: June 22, 1967, 856 ft.; track 2: June 29, 1967, 730 ft. Interview notes also available.; value: Phonotapes :