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Two diaries : The diary & journal of Calvin Perry Clark who journeyed by wagon train from Plano, Illinois to Denver and vicinity over the Santa Fe Trail in the year 1859, together with the diary of his sister Helen E. Clark who made a similar journey by the northern route in the year 1860.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Calvin Perry, 1835 or 1836-1907, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Colorado.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
- Colorado.
- United States--Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
- Genre:
- Private press books.
- Printing in multiple colors.
- Limitation statements.
- Binding labels.
- Case bindings.
- Diaries.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [18], 91, [3], [14], 44, [4] pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Parker, Colorado : Printed ... by Thelma & John R. Evans at The Little Press of Este Es.
- Place of Publication:
- [Denver] : [The Denver Public Library], [1962]
- Contents:
- The diary & journal of Calvin Perry Clark who journeyed by wagon train from Plano, Illinois to Denver and vicinity over the Santa Fe Trail in the year 1859
- The diary of Helen E. Clark who journeyed by wagon train from Plano, Illinois to Denver and vicinity over the Northern Route in the year 1860.
- Notes:
- "The diary & journal of Calvin Perry Clark" and "The diary of Helen E. Clark" each has separate pagination and colophon and are bound together tête-bêche.
- "Copyright 1962 by The Denver Public Library"--Verso of title leaf.
- "This book has been designed and printed from hand set type by Thelma & John R. Evans at [The Little press of Este Es] ... near Parker - Colorado. This edition is limited to three hundred copies"--Colophon.
- "The manuscript of Calvin Perry Clark is a possession of the Denver Public Library. in putting this simple story into book form, no attempt has been made to edit it. It is copies, with few exceptions, word for word from the manuscript; using, very occasionally, a punctuation mark when necessary to make the meanings evident. The misspellings have been reproduced faithfully as well as the very few breaks and indentations ... The manuscript ... is now brown with age and the ink has become the color of brick dust. An attempt has been made to copy these features in the choice of paper and ink."--Printer's note to "The diary & journal of Calvin Perry Clark".
- "This diary of Helen E. Clark was written on scraps of paper which were gathered together in chronological order years later and copied by the author's daughter, Ida D. Albee ... The copy from which this printing is made was secured by the Denver Public Library from Ida D. Albee ... [N]othing has been changed as to spelling, indentations, paragraph arrangement, etc."--Printer's note to "The diary of Helen E. Clark".
- Introduction to each diary signed: Malcolm G. Wyer.
- Binding: full cloth; green printed illustration and large red printed number 1 on left board; green printed illustration and large red printed number 2 on right board; black printed green cloth spine label; green illustrated endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Contains:
- Albee, Helen Clark, 1840-1922. Diary.
- OCLC:
- 1890937
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