California Printing History and the Shakespeare Press Museum

The Shakespeare Press Museum, a working letterpress museum at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, houses letterpress printing presses and equipment dating from the 1850s to the 1970s. Although the museum has been at Cal Poly since the 1960s, little work was completed on the historical context of the collections or to address the archival and educational frameworks of the museum’s collection. This thesis has three purposes: to place the museum’s collections in their nineteenth-century California historical context; to provide the first in-depth examination of the museum’s original founder, Charles “Shakespeare” Palmer; and to create an archival reference and program for the museum’s collections in their physical and digital form.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA in History

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Sorvetti, Laura

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas Trice

Identifier

10.15368/theses.2010.201

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-1462