Converted to EAD3 : Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Version 3 : Release: 1.1.1 : Release Date: 2019-12-16. Validating against latest version of schema.
Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbc.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016660613
Collection material is primarily in English.
Gift of Carolyn Reading Hammer.
Processing was completed in 2018
The status of copyright in the writings within the Victor Hammer Collection in the custody of the Library of Congress is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The records of the Victor Hammer Collection are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Victor Hammer Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
This important gift to the Library of Congress of materials relating to the activities of Victor and Carolyn Hammer will preserve a core of fundamental publications, documents, and objects for the study of two important American book artists of the twentieth century. The items donated may be used for the study of the achievements of the two principals, for the study of the craft of printing, for illustrations for works on the graphic arts, for the exploration of ideas found in the correspondence, and for other purposes. The documents relating to the career of Victor Hammer as a painter are especially significant. For variety of interests, originality of concepts, breadth of important personal American and European contacts, and for intrinsic appeal, there can be few archives in the graphic arts field of equal interest. Material donated 1999-2016 by Carolyn Reading Hammer and includes 21 monographs, 50 file boxes, and 4 oversize file boxes.
This collection is arranged in 6 series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016660613
The correspondence files contain papers concerning art and publishing activities (exhibitions, book manuscript acquisition, typographical and editorial topics, acquisition of printing supplies, marketing) as well as correspondence with collectors, scholars, curators, colleagues, friends, and literary, publishing, intellectual and cultural figures. The files contain letters, forms, photographs, cards, drafts of responses, proofs of publications, keepsakes, and other documents contributing to an understanding of the work of the Hammers. Correspondents include such well-known individuals as Bernard Berenson, Sir Kenneth Clark, Benedetto Croce, T. S. Eliot, Eric Gill, Aldous Huxley, Randall Jarrell, Theodor Mommsen, Lewis Mumford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rudolf Serkin, Andres Segovia, Edmund Wilson, and many other prominent names in the fields of scholarship, art, the graphic arts, and fine publishing.
Arranged alphabetically by individual or organization.
Envelopes or wrapped packages including material from the Anvil Press, bibliographic materials, manuscript notes, and drafts of letters, lecture notes, and art-related notes. Also includes Hammer documents and Fritz Kudel.
Arranged chronologically by correspondant's name.
Mezzotints and prints of woodcuts and metal engravings used for Hammer book arts.
Arranged by type and date.
Envelopes or wrapped packages including material from the Anvil Press, bibliographic materials, manuscript notes, and drafts of letters, lecture notes, and art-related notes. Also includes Hammer documents and Fritz Kudel.
Arranged chronologically by correspondant's name.
A variety of reviews, catalogues, and announcements enumerated in David Farrell’s secondary bibliography in Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. Includes approximately 150 files.
Arranged as received.
All books contain the bookplate of Carolyn R. Hammer, designed by English wood engraver Will Carter and printed at his Rampant Lion Press. They are arranged by call number in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division’s Press Collection.
Arranged alphabetically within each press listing.