Box 1

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Oblong string-bound buckram boards, 103 leaves of thick card stock.

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Green hard cover, predominantly photographs of unidentified type specimen books.

Scope and Contents The Collection of Soviet Design Scrapbooks contains scrapbooks almost entirely filled with collages of newspaper clippings, labels, and other ephemera and photographic prints of type specimens glued to rectos and versos. Though the scrapbooks themselves were likely created between c.1965 and c.1990, the material within the scrapbooks largely ranges from the 1950s to approximately 1990, with some material of the early 20th century represented as well. The scrapbooks are largely composed of...