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• Title:Robert Reid fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022.
  
• Published/Created:1905-1944
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1461
    
  • Number of Items:11
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:OS-01 to 11
    
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1461
    
  • Number of Items:32
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 19 Requested
    c.1 Box 20 Requested
    c.1 Box 15 Requested
    c.1 Box 24 Requested
    c.1 Box 25 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-30.
    Box 31-32
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022.
  
• Description:80 cm of textual records
  9 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of a printer's collection of fine printwork and files on various old books. It also includes undated biographical material, correspondence (1905-1944), financial records, speeches, notes, clippings, photographs and printed material.
  
• Biography/history note:Robert Reid became interested in printing when he was given a printing press during his childhood. His years as a student at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated in 1949 with a Bachelor of Commerce, were spent experimenting with his press, producing imaginative ads for campus events. He worked at the UBC Library in the Reference Division. His association with Neil Harlow, then the Chief Librarian, led him into the field of fine printing. He opened his own press under a variety of names including Graphos Press, The Nevermore Press, and eventually the Private Press of Robert Reid. Reid worked in the Vancouver area until 1963 when he moved to Montreal and then in 1974 to New York.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.