The collection contains an assortment of correspondence, books,
some published by his Manzanita Press, typescripts of books and short stories,
advertisements, illustrations, clippings, photographs and photographic plates,
articles, speeches, catalogs, and miscellaneous original art work.
Collection Number:
MS 234
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
Merle Armitage was an American author, publisher, book designer, graphic
artist, and impresario.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains an assortment of correspondence, books, some
published by his Manzanita Press, typescripts of books and short stories,
advertisements, illustrations, clippings, photographs and photographic plates,
articles, speeches, catalogs, and miscellaneous original art work. The majority
of the correspondence, 1958-60, is with George Mason regarding the book
Stella Dysart, and with Ida Whitsett
concerning the book
Success Is No Accident. Typescript drafts
and items relating to the publication of the books are also present.
Another set of correspondence is with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad, 1958- 1973. Background materials relating to Armitage's book
Homage to Santa Fe include the typescript
draft, illustrations and advertisements, as well as railroad articles,
timetables, and train photographs. Travel photographs from 1955 depict mainly
the landscapes, monuments, and Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico,
California, and Oklahoma. Eighteen copper photographic plates are from the book
Edward Weston: Fifty Photographs, and 22
more photographic plates are from other publications. Miscellaneous original
art work is by Henrietta Shore, his daughter Chama Armitage, and Frank O'Brien.
Other items are articles written by and about Armitage, speech typescripts,
family mementos, material from his work as an impresario, and some of his
original graphic designs.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Armitage, Chama
Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975 --
Archives
Mason, George --
Correspondence
O'Brien, Frank
Shore, Henrietta,
1880-1963
Weston, Edward,
1886-1958
Whitsett, Ida --
Correspondence
Corporate Name(s)
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad
Company -- History
Manzanita Press
Geographic Name(s)
Southwest, New -- Pictorial works
Subject(s)
Commercial artists -- United States
Book design -- United States -- History
Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th
century
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial
works
Publishers and publishing -- California -- History -- 20th
century
