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The Paper Crane Press Collection, 1975-2012

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Stow, Doug
Title
The Paper Crane Press Collection
Dates
1975-2012 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 cubic feet, (4 boxes)
Collection Number
OLPb131PAP
Summary
This collection includes letterpressed poetry broadsides, cards, engravings, and ephemera issued by Doug Stow and the Paper Crane Press of Half Moon Bay, California.
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Doug Stow was born on December 21, 1949 in Evansville, Indiana and educated at Michigan State University. In 1980, Stow purchased a Chandler & Price Pilot press, believing it would be nice to print his wife Margaret's linocut work. After setting up the press, Doug began reading Polk's manual on elementary printing. He also recieved hands-on training from George Witman of San Francisco in printing and composing. As Stow's skills improved, he was employed by Witman for letterpress work. In 1982 Stow printed a booklet titled "Plum Pudding" for the Wodehouse Society of which he was a member. The Wodehouse Society sold out the booklet, and established a long-term relationship with Stow, who printed numerous items for the Society. In 1985, Doug and Margaret opened a retail store for greeting cards and gifts called the Paper Crane in Half Moon Bay, California. The Stows set up their press behind the counter and began printing business cards and other commercial jobs for local residents and busnesses. In the years after 1985, Stow and his Paper Crane Press printed materials for the Graphic Arts Workshop of San Francisco, the artists Elaine Hamilton, woodblock artist William Wolff, the Friends of William Stafford, the Sore Dove Press, and local poets and readers in Half Moon Bay. Many of Stow's poetry broadsides feature artwork by his wife Margaret and his son Robert. Stow died December 1, 2015; Margaret and Robert continue to operate the press. This collection includes everything printed by Stow and the Paper Crane Press through 2012.

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Content Description

Includes printed poetry broadsides, etchings, woodblock prints, cards, and ephemera.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The Paper Crane Press Collection (OLPb131PAP), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series. Items are gouped by publication type and arranged chronologically within each box.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition Information

Donated to Lewis & Clark by Doug and Margaret Stow in 2012.

Future Additions

Future items printed by Paper Crane Press will be annually.

Processing Note

Processed in 2012.

Separated Materials

Portfolios are listed in this finding, but shelved with Special Collections rare books.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Description: Poems by Oda Reid
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box/Folder 1.1
  • Description: Poems by John Becker
    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 1.2
  • Description: Wood by J.B. Priestley
    Dates: 1988
    Container: Box/Folder 1.3
  • Description: Cherry Root Flow With Me by Ken Paul
    2 copies
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box/Folder 1.4
  • Description: Grape Stalk N. III by Ken Paul
    2 copies
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box/Folder 1.5
  • Description: The Storyteller by Baloian
    2 copies
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box/Folder 1.6
  • Description: Echoes from the Heart of a Tree by Ken Paul Lozanda
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.7
  • Description: The Silent Women Who Raised Their Children Alone by Jean Emerson
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.8
  • Description: Escort by Michael J. Vaughn
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.9
  • Description: A Famer's Wisdom by Baloian
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.10
  • Description: Mating Habits by Clifford Hunt
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.11
  • Description: Three Things That Cared by John Cuno
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.12
  • Description: An Evening Commute by Robert S. Pesich
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.13
  • Description: Celebration of the Black Moon by Jane Pray Silver
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.14
  • Description: Big Toe by Ken Paul Lozanda
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.15
  • Description: Ocean by Jim Standish
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.16
  • Description: Why You're Afraid of the Road by Charlotte Muse
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.17
  • Description: It Happens by Cynthia S. Lowe
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.18
  • Description: The Soul Has Wings by JC Watson
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.19
  • Description: Walking to Capitola Beach by John O'Mara
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.20
  • Description: Even A Word by John Cuno
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.21
  • Description: Catalpa Blossoms Stacked on a Tiny Denim Jacket by Marvin R. Hiemstra
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.22
  • Description: Until the Sea Shall Free Them by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.23
  • Description: A Story That Could Be True by William Stafford
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box/Folder 1.24
  • Description: Earth Dweller by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.25
  • Description: Any Morning by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.26
  • Description: Why Am I Happy by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.27
  • Description: Note by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.28
  • Description: You Reading This Be Ready by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.29
  • Description: Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 1.30
  • Description: Hummingbirds by William Stafford
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 1.31
  • Description: Choosing A Dog by William Stafford
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 1.32
  • Description: At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 1.33
  • Description: What I Learned at Sixty-Six by William Stafford
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 1.34
  • Description: At Elizabeth's Coffee House by Baloian
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.35
  • Description: One Drop of Water and the Glass Overflows by Cathy Barber [Haiku]
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.36
  • Description: Remembrance by Margaret E. Bruner
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.37
  • Description: Looking at Things a Long Time by John Cuno
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.38
  • Description: Human Experience and the Creative Process by John Cuno
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.39
  • Description: Fishing For Poems by Doug Stow
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.40
  • Description: 3 steps to Financial Security
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.41.1
  • Description: Icon by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.41.2
  • Description: Nocturne by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.42
  • Description: Time in the Evening by Harold Witt
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.43
  • Description: Bookmarks
    multiple copies
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.44
  • Description: Holiday Cards
    multiple copies
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.45
  • Description: Other Cards
    multiple copies
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.46
  • Description: Paper Crane Press History
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1.47
  • Description: Autum by Richard A. Lawson
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.1
  • Description: Napping in a Transfigured Night by Clifford Hunt
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.2
  • Description: A Letter by Vincent Cioffi
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.3
  • Description: What the Poet Lives For by Noni Howard
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.4
  • Description: Remedies for Writing by Baloian
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.5
  • Description: Tony Williams
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.6
  • Description: Mississippi Winter by Maria Varela
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.7
  • Description: Sixteen Loveless Poems by mauro f.f.
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.8
  • Description: Burning the Tares (Five Poems) by John Cuno
    booklet
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.9
  • Description: Man of Loaves by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.10
  • Description: City of Angels by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.11
  • Description: Touch by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2.12
  • Description: Holy Trinity of Chiles by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 2.13
  • Description: Hands by Noni Howard ; My Hands by Marlena Rose Sky
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 2.14
  • Description: Sea Script by Richard Lawson
    Container: Box/Folder 2.15
  • Description: A Few Questions by Robert S. Pesich
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 2.16
  • Description: Baseball Haiku by Doug Stow
    four copies : various sizes
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 2.17
  • Description: The Spanish Masters by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.18
  • Description: Gull by Emmanual Williams
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.19
  • Description: How are those Flagmen ahead? by Clifford Hunt
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.20
  • Description: Gift by Robert S. Pesich
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.21
  • Description: The Automobile by Eleanor Joy
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.22
  • Description: Memorizing the Water by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.23
  • Description: genesis
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.24
  • Description: She is so Lovely Lying There
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.25
  • Description: Circling Back by Cathy Barber
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.26
  • Description: Kissing in Winter by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2.27
  • Description: The Money Poem by mauro f.f.
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2.28
  • Description: Trapline by Caroline Goodwin
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2.29
  • Description: On A Blue Day by Arthur Hofmayer
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2.30
  • Description: Calliope's Daughter by Jim LeCuyer
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2.31
  • Description: Grandmother by Lawson Fusao Inada
    Dates: 2005
    Container: Box/Folder 2.32
  • Description: At Night by Jane Hirshfield
    2 copies
    Dates: 2006
    Container: Box/Folder 2.33
  • Description: Holding by Vincent Wixon
    Dates: 2006
    Container: Box/Folder 2.34
  • Description: Hot Bear Claws - Just Out of the Oven by Marvin Hiemstra
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.35
  • Description: Grand Thefts by Cathy Barber
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.36
  • Description: Remembering by Richard Lawson
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.37
  • Description: Soli Deo Gloria by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.38
  • Description: A Life of It's Own by John Rowe
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.39
  • Description: Iowa Omen by Diane Frank
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.40
  • Description: Tell Me Again by Nancy Wakeman ; Spout by Stephen Kopel
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.41
  • Description: Magician by Baloian
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.42
  • Description: In Celebration of by Gary Horsman
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.43
  • Description: Zen Rock Garden by Scott Caputo
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 2.44
  • Description: Simple Pleasures by Vincent Wixon
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.45
  • Description: The Astrologer by Raman Bechar
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.46
  • Description: Singing to the Bees by Emmanuel Williams
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.47
  • Description: Yearning by Jeffery Grossman
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.48
  • Description: Old Poets and Writers by Noni Howard
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.49
  • Description: Weeding by Caroline Goodwin
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.5/
  • Description: Pivotal Question by David Alpaugh
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.51
  • Description: Clifford Hunt
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.52
  • Description: Center by Greg Simon
    Dates: 2008
    Container: Box/Folder 2.53
  • Description: Twilight by Clifford Hunt
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 2.54
  • Description: Divide by Kari Prager
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 2.55
  • Description: Encounters in the Forest by Marvin Hiemstra
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 2.56
  • Description: How Do Crows Tell Time? by Kit Kennedy
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 2.57
  • Description: Snow Angels by Ken Soffra
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.58
  • Description: Rivered Thoughts by David Partch
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.59
  • Description: By a Farmhouse in Corvalis by Diane Frank
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.60
  • Description: The Heart, Too, Makes It's Own Weather by Marianne Klekacz
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 2.61
  • Description: Oyster Suite by Michael McGriff, Carl Adamshick, Matthew Dickman, and Michael Dickman
    portfolio of four broadsides
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.62
  • Description: A Girl Made Out of Dust and Adam's Rib by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.63
  • Description: Edges by Jan Dederick
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.64
  • Description: America by Karen Llagas
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.65
  • Description: Beach Thoughts by Don Marvis
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 2.66
  • Description: It Is Time by Sherri Rose-Walker
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.67
  • Description: Rain on Main Street by Casey Fitz Simons
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box/Folder 2.68
  • Description: A Night in the Valley by Lawson Fusao Inada
    2 copies
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 2.69
  • Description: Propogate by Paulann Peterson
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 2.70
  • Description: Mother Nature by Ellaraine Lockiel
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 2.71
  • Description: Instructions for Childhood by Paul Merchant
    2 copies
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 2.72
  • Description: Leaves by Tony Williams
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2.73
  • Description: The Wodehouse Societ
    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box/Folder 3.1
  • Description: Jeeves Takes Charge by The Wodehouse Society
    Dates: 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 3.2
  • Description: Wodehouse Day
    Dates: 1987
    Container: Box/Folder 3.3
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society Convention
    Dates: 1987
    Container: Box/Folder 3.4
  • Description: Pilgrimage to Dulwich
    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box/Folder 3.5
  • Description: Printer's Error by P.G. Wodehouse
    Dates: 1990
    Container: Box/Folder 3.6
  • Description: Wodehouse on New York
    Dates: 1991
    Container: Box/Folder 3.7
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by NY
    Dates: 1991
    Container: Box/Folder 3.8
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by San Francisco
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box/Folder 3.9
  • Description: P.G. Wodehouse by Church of the Transitory Ration
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box/Folder 3.10
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by Boston
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box/Folder 3.11
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society in Chicago
    Dates: 1997
    Container: Box/Folder 3.12
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by Providence, R.I.
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box/Folder 3.13
  • Description: The Wadehouse Society in Philadelphia
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 3.14
  • Description: What ho, Toronto! by The 10th Biennial Wodehouse Convention
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box/Folder 3.15
  • Description: A Little Wadehouse on the Prairie
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 3.16
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by Bookmarks
    multiple copies
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 3.17
  • Description: The Wodehouse Society by Invitations
    multiple copies
    Dates: Various Dates
    Container: Box/Folder 3.18
  • Description: Plum Pudding: A Wodehouse Alphabet
    multiple copies : booklet
    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box/Folder 3.19
  • Description: Al Puetro Escondido by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 4.1
  • Description: Allen Ginsberg
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 4.2
  • Description: Are There Not Still Fireflies by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 4.3
  • Description: A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William Stafford
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box/Folder 4.4
  • Description: Malhuer before Dawn by William Stafford
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 4.5
  • Description: Charles Dickens
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 4.6
  • Description: The Shakespeare Folio' Pamphlet promo flyer
    4 copies
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box/Folder 4.7
  • Description: Trinity Woods by Ken Paul
    Add. Copy in box 1/2
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 4.8
  • Description: Bloodline by Paulann Petersen
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Box/Folder 4.9
  • Description: Smoke Signals by William Stafford
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box/Folder 4.10
  • Description: The World Speaks Everything to Us: Seven Poems by William Stafford

    Limited edition portfolio with broadsides listed elsewhere in this collection.

    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder 4.11
  • Description: Biographical information about Maria Verela
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box/Folder 4.12
  • Description: 5 Friends, 5 Artists, 5 Reflections, 5 Prints

    Portfolio of prints by John Connolly, Elaine Hamilton, Stanley Koppel, Elinor Randall, and William Wolff.

    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box/Folder SPEC COLL NE390.F58 1989 OVERSIZED
  • Description: Simon Peter Saith Unto Them, I Go a Fishing Etchings by William Wolff

    Etchings bound into paper wraps.

    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box/Folder SPEC COLL NE2120.W65 2001 OVERSIZED
  • Description: Shakespeare: The Printmakers' Portfolio

    Unbound prints housed in a black portfolio.

    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box/Folder SPEC COLL Z239.P325 S53 1992 OVERSIZED
  • Description: Stone Workers of Maine: Woodcut Prints by E. Hudson Hamilton and Nathan Sinclair

    Unbound prints housed in a cloth covered portfolio.

    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box/Folder SPEC COLL NE962.O25 H36 1992 OVERSIZED

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Subject Terms

  • Letterpress printing

Personal Names

  • Stafford, William, 1914-1993
  • Stow, Doug--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Friends of William Stafford
  • Paper Crane Press

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Stow, Margaret (creator)
    • Stow, Robert (creator)

Ellen Anderson
2012

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