Box: 1, Dates: circa 1937-76

Includes both typed and handwritten professional correspondence arranged alphabetically in folders; also loose personal and professional correspondence and cards. A framed print from Rudolph Ruzicka to Edward Connery Lathem; an original frontispieces for the Imprint Society's edition of the Poetry of Robert Frost (1971); 10 blank postcards of Prague; 1 magazine; booklets.

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Box: 2, Dates: circa 1950's

Includes 7 scrapbooks. One includes a publication entitled "Print"; the second contains an unbound copy of the Harvard College Library Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts; the third contains assorted publications related to type and printing; the fourth through seventh scrapbooks contain pasted-in clippings and images of beasts, portraits, title pages, and birds used for study.

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Box: 3, Dates: circa 1918-69

Contains files of tax records circa 1918-69; multiple check registers; misc. medical records; alphabetical files containing newspaper clippings; personal and professional correspondence; booklets; certificates and passport; black and white photographs and a relief image of Robert Frost; exhibition keepsake; examples of letterhead designs; certificate and medal design records; photographs of sculptures and architecture; portrait photographs; photographic scrapbook and a collection of poetry.

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Box: 4, Dates: circa 1897-1960

Contains both individually named and alphabetical files. The individual files include "correspondence", "newspaper clippings," "photographs," and a portfolio all related to Rudolph Ruzicka; numerous correspondence related to Andrew Wyeth, including several autographed letters from Andrew Wyeth; a paste paper covered hard-bound book entitled, "The New Book of the Locomobile". The Alphabetical files include numerous booklets; the will of Maria H.B. Dennette and related papers; friends works; several copies of the "Lynotype News"; a Rudolph Ruzicka school report card from 1897 and other papers.

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Box: 5, Dates: circa 1950's

Contains a portfolio box of Rudolph Ruzicka prints entitled "Ephemrae"; bound book entitled "The Quest of the Purple Fringed"; Bookbuilders of Boston silver bowl engraved with the ‘1962 William A Dwiggins Award', presented to Rudolph Ruzicka; photograph of Rudolph Ruzicka; framed portrait in pencil; framed portrait in oil; a facsimile of a Voltaire letter to Boswell (1765) on handmade paper w/wax seal; miniature book entitled "Honey Drops"; miniature book entitled "Dew Drops"; miniature book entitled "Pravidla Sazby; assorted tools; lino punches; a pocket watch and binder containing handwritten records.

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Box: 6, Dates: 1916-1968

Contains professional correspondence organized in files (1916-1968), including records related to Fairfield type faces, Berwick, Benson, Linotype faces, and Dwiggins.

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Box: 7, Dates: 1862-1978

Contains a scrapbook with drafts of letters; an accounts book (1927-73); a binder containing handwritten list of Ruzicka's personal library; calendar books ranging from 1960-78 with gaps; two address books (one containing a fifty cent postage currency printed in 1862-3); Diary (1908-58); book of handwritten quotes; a calligraphy sketchbook; five medals in cases (including two Dartmouth medals); handwritten index cards and a wooden box containing a variety of small hand chisels.

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Box: 8, Dates: 1498 - circa 1975

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• Folder: 1, One facsimile broadside of the Declaration of Independence, printed by the Lakeside Press Chicago., no date
• Folder: 2, Two specimen sheets, "The Works and Days of Hesoid", presentation copy, inscribed: "For Rudolph Ruzicka/in admiration/ Adrian Wilson., Oct. 12 1964
• Folder: 3, One specimen sheet, "72 Point Centaur Roman", printed by Will Carter, Graphic Arts Workshop- Dartmouth., June 1969
• Folder: 4, Two filio specimen leaves of Glaslan handmade paper-Arches, printed for the Japan Paper Company, New York/Philadelphia, no date
• Folder: 5, One broadside, Dartmouth type design, initial "R", printed by Will Carter, 1969
• Folder: 6, Facsimile trial pages for projected edition of Lord Berner's translation of "Froissart, printed by Thomas Hughes, and Hugh Grannum., June 1920
• Folder: 7, One broadside, "Madame Sarah Bernhardt", folio sheet, designed by Bruce Rodgers, 1906
• Folder: 8, One specimen sheet, "A Specimen of Types in Use at the Montague Press", designed and printed by Carl Rollins., 1915
• Folder: 9, One specimen sheet, "Oxford Lectern Bible/The First Book of Moses, called Genesis", single folio signature, Oxford University Press., 1931
• Folder: 10, One leaf of illustrated Italian Bible, single leaf from the Book of Baruch, (Venice: Simon Bevilaqua), 1498
• Folder: 11, A collection of Marchbanks Press ephemera; one single sheet folded twice,entitled "Hal Marchbank/Printer", five monthly calander sheets with color relief illustration., 1922-34
• Folder: 12, One broadsheet keepsake prepared for American Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum (Paris)., no date
• Folder: 13, Two copies of an alphabet engraved by Leo Wyatt, printed at Gehenna Press., June 1964
• Folder: 14, One specimen sheet for the Japan Paper Company by Pynson Printers, no date
• Folder: 15, One broadsheet, exerpt from Hokusai's "Hundred Views of Fiji", designed by W.A. Dwiggins, circa 1949
• Folder: 16, One folio sheet printed as a keepsake for Lyman H. Butterfield and friends for the Massachusetts Historical Society, Nov. 25th 1957
• Folder: 17, One broadside alphabet, the letters are adapted from 15th century Roman letters by Felice Feliciano of Verona. Printed by the Meridan Gravure Co., circa 1960's
• Folder: 18, One photocopy of a Rudolph Ruzicka illustration used in D.B. Updike's "Printing Types"., circa 1964
• Folder: 19, Facsimile leaf, two copies, "Typophiles Salutem Vobis Dico"., no date
• Folder: 20, Portfolio of "Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists", E. Wyhe., 1919
• Folder: 21, One facsimile, "Melville on Piranesi", folio sheet folded once, The Gehenna Press and The Meriden Gravure Co., 1969
• Folder: 22, Original Piranesi etching, no date
• Folder: 23, Type specimens,"Alphabet in Honor of Richard Pennington..." McGill University Press, 1965
• Folder: 24, One facsimile specimen sheet "A Specimen by W. Caslon, Letter-Founder, in Ironmonger-Row, Old-Street, London...", Meriden Gravure Co., no date
• Folder: 25, One broadside alphabet folio sheet, letters adapted from 15th century Roman letters designed by Felice Feliciano of Verona., no date
• Folder: 26, One broadside alphabet folio sheet, printed for Philip Hofer, by Hermann Zapf , 1959
• Folder: 27, One broadside, "The Story of Calligraphy", University of Denver Press, 1950
• Folder: 28, One broadside, "When Februarie with his blasted colde...", folio sheet, Anthoensen Press, Portland, 1952
• Folder: 29, One broadside,"The Arms of the Harvard Medical School", folio sheet, , no date
• Folder: 30, Prospectus for a facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the Australian flower painter Ferdinand Bauer, and the Red Books of Humphrey Repton., circa 1975
• Folder: 31, Prospectus for "The Caxton Ovid. A complete facsimile in two volumes..."George Braziller, in assoc. with Magdalene College, Cambrige., 1968
• Folder: 32, One broadside, "A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard", Rampant Press., January 1963
• Folder: 33, One broadside, "Excerpt from/the Second Inaugural Address by/ Abraham Lincoln/March 4th...", folio sheet, circa 1950's
• Folder: 34, One specimen sheet, "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/concerning literary style/1824...", , no date
• Folder: 35, One specimen sheet, "Centaur and Arrighi...", Taylor and Taylor., 1948

Box: 9, Dates: circa 1948-1991

Contains a medal mold; a engraved wooden alphabet plaque from Will Carter and a collection of personal Christmas cards circa 1948-1991.

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Box: 10, Dates: 1940-1970's

Contains swatch books of paste papers produced by Rudolph's daughter Veronica under the name Proteus Papers (1940); a collection of card catalog cards; a print entitled Shepard Tom; device designs; an honorary degree from Marlboro College in Vermont and numerous annotated manuscript files entitled "postscripts on Dwiggens".

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Box: 11, Dates: circa 1940, undated

Contains page layout for a Ruzicka's chapbook; specimen study sheets of 'fairfield' typeface and printing blocks.

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