DWRI Letterpress Collection
Dates
- 2002-2017
Creator
- Wood, Dan (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to research. This collection includes digital records which are only available onsite in the Special Collections reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
PPL does not claim copyright to this collection. Users of this item are responsible for determining copyright restrictions. The collection includes work by a wide range of artists.
Biographical / Historical
Dan Wood founded DWRI Letterpress in Providence in 2002.
Extent
25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is organized into two series: 1) Client files, 2) Staff artwork and independent creative and educational work. Folders in the first series includes press sheets, design and consultation notes, polymer plates, negative film, slugs, and examples of in-progress and final work. Within the client files series folders typically contain material for individual jobs, and the series is arranged by year of job creation date with rough alphabetic arrangement within each year. NOTE: Folders have not yet been processed, and client alphabeticization is often irregular. Some files are arranged by first name instead of last, and corporate clients are sometimes foldered under an associated personal name. An exported abstract of the DWRI Letterpress job database is available for use in the Special Collections Reading Room, but the database and physical files have not yet been reconciled.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the creator, accession # 2021-10-04-001 and subsequent accretions.
Accruals
Additional accruals are expected.
Creator
- Wood, Dan (Person)
- Harada, Lois (1988) (Person)
- Anderson, Hope (Person)
- Sprenkle, Tom (Person)
- Title
- DWRI Letterpress Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Jordan Goffin
- Date
- May 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org