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Guide to the John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection

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Collection Overview
Date Span:1866-1934
Creator:Springer, John
Extent:8.50 linear feet.
Collection Number:MSC0202
Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Summary:Advertising agent, printer, and newspaper editor, of Iowa City, Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and other material relating to printing and advertising.

The Springer Ephemra Collectioncontains more than 1,600 items and more than 400 calling cards -- in excess of2,000 items in all -- organized into 19 boxes. Items have been grouped by format (e.g., calendars in Box 1, tokens in Box 18), by subject (e.g., paper inBox 3, advertising materials related to food in Box 12) and by events (e.g.,1893 World's Fair in Box 10, Iowa City events in Box 14). Few of thesegroupings are entirely systematic and related materials, however defined, can oftenbe found in more than one place in the collection.
 
A summary of the contents of each box follows. It precedes a box-by-box, item-by-item inventory. The linksat each box number in the summary will take you directly to the inventory ofthat box. E.g., to go to the inventory of World's Fair material in Box 10,click on "Box 10" in the summary.
 
In addition to the ephemeralpieces inventoried here, Springer (1850-1937), an Iowa City printer,presented some 2,000 books documenting or illustrating the history of printing.These titles are held together as a collection in Special Collections and are cataloged on InfoHawk. A shelflist in card format is also available in theSpecial Collections department.

Access: This collection is open for research.

Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.

Acquisition: The Springer collection was bequeathed to the University of Iowa by John Springer upon his death in 1937. There was an addendum in 2003.

Preferred Citation: John Springer Collection of Printing Ephemera, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.

Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Address:Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:319-335-5921
Curator:Greg Prickman
Email:lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Website:http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/

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This collection is indexed under the following subject terms.


Topics:
Advertising
Advertising agencies

Occupations:
Printers

Geographic Names:
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa

Genre/Form of Materials:
Advertising cards
Archives
Archives
Book catalogs
Clippings (Information artifacts)
Correspondence
Ephemera
Print advertising
Printed ephemera
Sales catalogs
Sources
Sources
Trade cards