Dan Wood Collection of Amalgamated Printers Association Ephemera (MSS020)

The Amalgamated Printers Association Ephemera Collection includes ephemera printed by members of the APA for inclusion in the monthly APA bundles collected by APA member Dan Wood spanning select months from when he first became a member of the organization in August 2001 through October 2009. Not all months from each year are in the collection, and each month’s bundle may be incomplete. The collection materials include handwritten communications from APA mailers to Dan Wood, examples of the work of DWRI press, and some APA reports.

Material in the collection includes envelopes, samples of a printers’ work at the time, mock-up documents, certificates, proprietor’s cards, announcements of contests, publications (not related to the APA), advertisements, event announcements, type specimens, artifacts featuring printed elements (such as fans and matchbooks), posters, fliers, bookmarks, art prints, calendars, greeting cards, postcards, napkins, and notebooks.

Content varies widely, due to the hired work of the printers, but includes some political commentary and reflections on national events, poems, recipes, some handwritten notes.