Guide to the Grolier Club Visitor Logs
Title:
Grolier Club Institutional Records Record Group 5, Series III: Visitor Logs
OCLC No:
993626939
Dates:
1884-2013
Extent:
5 boxes; 2.09 linear feet
Abstract:
Guest books documenting visitors to the Grolier Club, including Club members and the public, for exhibitions, library research, or other events.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use. Copyright restrictions may apply; please contact repository for requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the materials. Library registers and additional items in this collection may be restricted at the discretion of the Librarian. Please contact repository.
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Grolier Club Visitor Logs, 1884-2013, The Grolier Club of New York.
About the Finding Aid:
This finding aid was prepared by Allison Hughes in Microsoft Word at the Grolier Club, June 2017.
Provenance:
Items in this collection were created by members or staff of the Grolier Club in the course of regular Club activities
Access Points:
Subjects
Book clubs. New York (State). New York.
Genres
Guestbooks.
Vistors’ books.
Biographical/Historical Note:
Visitors to the Grolier Club include both Club members and the public, visiting to view exhibitions, conduct library research, or attend a lecture or other event.
Scope and Content Note:
Bound guest books and loose sign in sheets used by visitors to the Grolier Club. The collection includes bound volumes in which member attendance at various Club functions was recorded between 1923 and 1949; visitor registers in which nonmembers visiting the Club for exhibitions and events could sign in to be added to the Club’s mailing list; and library registers recording library patrons’ topics of research. Also includes a register for the Hunter College History of Printmaking Class (1982); and a visitor register for the Grolier Club exhibition: Beatrix Potter & Peter Rabbit: A Centenary Celebration (14 Nov. 2000-11 Jan. 2001), curated by Mark Samuels Lasner, which was reused in 2011 as a visitors' register for Grolier Club exhibitions.
After 2013, visitor register books were replaced with sign-in sheets which were not retained after the information was transferred to a digital database. Library registers were not used after 2009; electronic records of library patrons were kept by the librarian starting in 2012.
Related Materials Note:
Related materials may be found in the following collections in this repository:
Grolier Club Institutional Records RG 1, Series V: Curator
Grolier Club Institutional Records RG 4, Series I, Subseries IV: Librarian
Arrangement Note:
This collection is arranged into the following series:
1. Member Attendance Books
2. Visitor Register Books
3. Library Registers
Container List:
1. Member Attendance Books
Arrangement Note: Arranged chronologically.
Box
|
Folder
|
Title
|
Date
|
1
|
1
|
Attendance Book
|
1923-1927
|
1
|
2
|
Attendance Book
|
1927-1931
|
1
|
3
|
Attendance Book
|
1931-1934
|
1
|
4
|
Attendance Book
|
1935-1939
|
1
|
5
|
Attendance Book
|
1940-1949
|
2.
Visitor Register Books
Arrangement Note: Arranged chronologically.
Box
|
Folder
|
Title
|
Date
|
1
|
6
|
Visitor Register Book
|
1884-1964
|
2
|
1
|
Hunter College History of Printmaking Class Register
|
1982
|
2
|
2
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Lithography’s Faces, The Books of Antonio Frasconi, So Precious a Foundation, William Morris: Collector as Creator
|
1996 April 25-1997 Jan. 25
|
2
|
3
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: K.K. Merker: Serving the Muse
|
1997 March 5-1998 Feb. 21
|
2
|
4
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Emerging Voices: American Women Writers
|
1998 March 10-1999 Jan.
|
2
|
5
|
Visitor Register Book
Include exhibitions: A Treasure-House of Books
|
1999 Jan.-Feb.
|
2
|
6
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses
|
1999 Feb. 25-April 14
|
2
|
7
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Beatrix Potter & Peter Rabbit
|
2001-2011
|
3
|
1
|
Visitor Register Book
|
2003 Nov. 3-2004 July
|
3
|
2
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Books on Ice, Dickens, Claire Van Vliet, Teaching America to Draw
|
2006 Jan. 10-July 19
|
3
|
3
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Hot off the Press, Illustrating the Good Life
|
2006 Nov. 9-2007 April 30
|
3
|
4
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Miniature Books and Political Cartoons and Caricatures
|
2007 April 30-June 23
|
3
|
5
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Miniature Books
|
2007 June 23-Oct. 12
|
3
|
6
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Boston Collects, Benjamin Franklin, Alice Morse, and Facing the Late Victorians
|
2007 Oct. 13-2008 March 20
|
3
|
7
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: This Perpetual Fight, For Jean Grolier and His Friends
|
2008 Sept. 20-2009 Feb 19
|
3
|
8
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Cuban Artists Books & Prints
|
2009 May 20-Aug. 1
|
3
|
9
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: In Pursuit of Knowledge and John Wiley
|
2009 Sept. 10-2010 Dec. 7
|
4
|
1
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: A Moment More Durable Than Brass and Lives on the Mississippi
|
2009 Dec. 9-2010 May 1
|
4
|
2
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Bound for Success
|
2010 May 19-June 31
|
4
|
3
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Hand, Voice & Vision and The Enchantress
|
2010 Dec. 8-2011 April 2
|
4
|
4
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: The Enchantress, Best of Both Worlds, and Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic
|
2011 April-Dec.
|
4
|
5
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Silver Screen, Silver Prints
|
2011 Sept. 14-Nov. 12
|
4
|
6
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic
|
2012 Jan.-Feb.
|
4
|
7
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Torn in Two
|
2012 Feb. 21-May 15
|
4
|
8
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: In Pursuit of a Vision
|
2012 Sept. 12-Nov. 17
|
4
|
9
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Aaron Burr Returns to New York
|
2012 May 16-July 28
|
4
|
10
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Rooms of Wonder
|
2013 Jan. 19-Feb. 2
|
5
|
1
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Gardening by the Book and American Little Magazines
|
2013 Feb. 20-July 25
|
5
|
2
|
Visitor Register Book
Includes exhibitions: Women in Science
|
2013 Nov. 18-Dec. 18
|
3.
Library Registers
Arrangement Note: Arranged chronologically.
Box
|
Folder
|
Title
|
Date
|
5
|
3
|
Library Register
|
1930-1935
|
5
|
4
|
Library Register
|
1936-1955
|
5
|
5
|
Library Register
|
1962-1967
|
5
|
6
|
Library Register
|
1968-1997
|
5
|
7
|
Library Register
|
1997-2009
|