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Early Illinois Newspapers and Job Printers: The Terence A. Tanner Collection

Ross, Ryan A.

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Title
Early Illinois Newspapers and Job Printers: The Terence A. Tanner Collection
Author(s)
Ross, Ryan A.
Issue Date
2010-12
Keyword(s)
  • Library science - Illinois
  • Newspaper presses - Illinois
  • American newspapers --Illinois
  • Library science --Illinois
  • Newspaper presses --Illinois
  • Printing --Illinois
  • Printers --Illinois
Abstract
In 1981 the Chicago antiquarian bookseller Terry Tanner began developing a plan for a history of nineteenth century Illinois newspapers and job printers. This project would entail a revision of Franklin William Scott’s Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879 (1910) and Cecil K. Byrd’s A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints, 1814-58 (1966). For two decades Tanner assembled copious notes, which filled boxes, binders, metal filing drawers, and cartons, not to mention the margins of the books he used as secondary sources. Over the course of the project, he published two articles under his legal name, Terence A. Tanner, entitled “Newspapers and Printing Presses in Early Illinois” (1993) and “Some Corrections and Emendations to Cecil K. Byrd’s A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints, 1814-58” (2001). In 2002 he donated his notes, organized mainly by format or container, to the Illinois Historical Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they are now part of the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections of the University Library. This descriptive inventory of the Tanner Collection describes a rich treasury of source material for the early history of Illinois and its newspapers and printers. It may also serve as a model for work in other states.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Occasional papers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science) ; no. 216
ISSN
  • 02761-769
  • 978-0-87845-131-9
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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