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Gauntlet Press fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1958-1991.

Reference:

R11737-0-0-E, LMS-0134

Type of material:

Art, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3671723

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Gauntlet Press fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1958-1991.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

3 m of textual records and graphic material.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds includes manuscripts and typescripts of Outram's poetry and prose for the period from 1958 to 1991; drawings, proofs and woodblocks by Barbara Howard; and mock-ups of many of the Gauntlet Press publications.

Provenance:

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Gauntlet Press
Additional name(s):

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Outram, Richard, 1930-

Outram, Barbara
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Gauntlet Press : Founded in 1960, Gauntlet Press is the personal press of poet Richard Outram and his artist/wife Barbara Howard. The Press publishes Outram's poetry, illustrated by Howard's wood engravings. The earliest productions were broadsides and cards, but books of poetry have also been issued, including "Thresholds" (1973), "Locus" (1974), "Arbor" (1976), "Around and about the Toronto Islands" (1993), "Peripatetics: Some Annotations, Glosses and Divers Comments upon Around & about the Toronto Islands" (1994) and "Tradecraft and Other Uncollected Poems" (1994). These carefully crafted editions are printed on handmade paper and bound by the Outrams themselves.

Outram, Richard, 1930- : Richard Outram was born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1930 and studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He was an employee of the CBC, and has been writing poetry since the 1950s. Outram has also published collections of poetry with other publishers such as "Exsultate", "Jubilate" (1966), "The Promise of Light" (1979), "Selected Poems" (1984) "Man in Love" (1985), "Hiram and Jenny" (1988), "Mogul Recollected" (1993) and "Benedict Abroad" (1998).

Outram, Barbara : Barbara Howard was born in Long Branch, Ontario in 1926 and studied at Western Technical School in Toronto, the Ontario College of Art and St. Martin's School in London, England. Howard is a painter and printmaker, and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She is the wife of Richard Outram.

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Textual records; graphic material (Electronic) Finding aid available for accession 1987-02. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/1987-02_3671723_open.pdf

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Link to related resource:

For additional information about Gauntlet Press, Richard Outram and Barbara Howard, researchers are referred to the article: A Brief History of Time at The Gauntlet Press (Or, Some Days the Earth Moved) by Richard Outram at http://www.sentex.net/~pql/DA2.html

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1 : 1987-02
2 : 1987-02
3 : 1987-02
4 : 1987-02
5 : 1987-02
6 : 1987-02
7 : 1987-02
8 : 1987-02
9 : 1987-02
10 : 1987-02
11 : 1987-02
12 : 1987-02
13 : 1987-02
14 : 1987-02
1 : 1991-17
2 : 1991-17
3 : 1991-17
4 : 1991-17
5 : 1991-17

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0134

Other accession no.:

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1987-02 LMS
1991-17 LMS
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0134 1987-02] 1--14

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0134 1991-17] 1--5

[Consultation 90 Open]

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