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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">I would say about 70% percent of what crosses our desks these days is post-1830 materials. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Artists' books</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Gift books</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Publishers' bindings (and accompanying text)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Fine/designer/art bindings (and accompanying text)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Private press books</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Confederate imprints</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Civil War era Northern imprints</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">19<sup>th </sup>century illustrated works</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Broadsides (19<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup> century, especially New England)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Tracts (political treatises, sermons, annual reports, etc. especially New England)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Trade catalogs, and printed ephemera (especially Boston)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Posters (World War I & II)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Bookplates</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Sheet music</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Will</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">Will Evans, MLIS</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">[he/him/his]</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">N.E.H. Chief Technical Services Librarian</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">Boston, MA 02108</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">Tel: 617-227-0270 ext. 243</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black">Fax: 617-227-5266 </span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org"><span style="color:black">www.bostonathenaeum.org</span></a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5496"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#2f5496"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#2f5496"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#2f5496"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 6, 2020 7:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Machine-press special collections</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dear Rare Materials Catalogers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">I've finally had a chance to watch Brenna Bychowski's Rare Book School virtual presentation on <a href="https://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/superheroes-and-shocking-affairs-or-adventures-in-cataloging-popular-literature/">Superheroes and Shocking Affairs, or, Adventures in Cataloging Popular Literature</a>. Informative, entertaining, and very well done; I especially like the way Brenna incorporated general information on the nature of cataloging. Highly recommended!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Brenna's presentation got me to wonder about the post-hand-press materials that cross the desk of rare materials/special collections catalogers. I invite DCRM-L readers to characterize the kinds of post-1830 material you're asked to catalog, and give a rough ranking of relative quantity? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">I can start (although since 1999 I've been cataloging pre-1831 materials almost exclusively):</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Little Blue Books</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Railroad companies' annual reports, timetables, and maps</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Sunbelt migration advertisements </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal">______________________________</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5e327c">Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS (she/her) | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | 202.675-0369 | <a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>