Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1892 - 1941
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
125. Melbert B. Cary, Jr., circa 1935
File — Box-Folder: 6.136
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates:
circa 1935
Al Davis Interview digital audio recordings
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: RITArc-0635
Overview
Digital audio recording of an interview with Al Davis. Al Davis was known as "Mr. RIT" for his devotion to the Institute. He served as vice president in the 1960s and 1970s and played a key role in shaping RIT's future by helping to raise the funds to build a new campus in Henrietta. The collection includes parts three and four of the interview. Parts one and two of the interview are currently missing.
Dates:
1997-1997
Continental Typefounders Association scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0024
Overview
Six bound volumes containing prospectuses, advertisements, letterhead, announcements, printed type specimens, pamphlets, circular letters, price lists, press clippings, off-prints, photographs, and some correspondence, documenting the first decade of the firm Continental Typefounders Association.
Dates:
1925 - 1936
Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, circa 1933
File — Box-Folder: 10.175
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates:
circa 1933
Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, 1935-1937
File — Box-Folder: 10.176
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates:
1935-1937
Letters to Melbert Cary from Warren Chappell, 1938-1941
File — Box-Folder: 10.177
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Press of the Woolly Whale collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, labels, certificates, programs, etc., most of which were drawn from the stock of the press when it was donated in 1969 to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; books printed by the press were also received but were cataloged separately. The collection is...
Dates:
1938-1941
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust records
Collection — Box: 1-89
Identifier: CSC-0011
Overview
The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust records span the lifetime of the trust, 1968
through 2010, and document the grants given by the Trust, as well as all
administrative activities.
Dates:
1897-2010; Majority of material found within 1968 - 2009
Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0025
Overview
The collection contains material by and about Melbert B. Cary Jr., and includes writings, scholarship on type and playing cards, Yale alumni books, photographs, correspindence, as well as writings by Melbert B. Cary Sr.
Dates:
1895 - 1986
Paintings for West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0033
Overview
Two gouache paintings on board.
Dates:
circa 1934
Press of the Woolly Whale Collection
Collection — Box: 1-10
Identifier: CSC-0023
Overview
The Press of the Woolly Whale Collection primarily consists of ephemera issued by the Press of the Woolly Whale between 1928 and 1941, including prospectuses, booklets, invitations, broadsides, holiday cards, certificates, and programs, among other items.
Dates:
1928-1972; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1941