DWRI Letterpress Collection

Collection

Identifier: 134-02

Staff Only

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

Additional Description

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.

Related Materials

More information about letterpress printing can be found in The Updike Collection on the History of Printing (Collection #004)
Additional examples of local printing and the work of Rhode Island Artists is available in the AS220 Collection (Collection #030)
Additional work by local letterpress printers is available in the collection, for instance the Jacques Bidon Poster Collection (Collection #132-04)