Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady (1940-) was a papermaker, book designer, printer, publisher, artist, poet, and teacher. Hamady is best known for his Shadwell Paper Mill and the Perishable Press. Hamady founded both the Perishable Press and the Shadwell Paper Mill while he was a student at Wayne State University in 1964. In 1966, Hamady was hired as an art instructor at the University of Wisconsin where he taught letterpress printing for over thirty years. Hamady continued to operate the the Perishable Press with his wife Mary in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. The Perishable Press issued works of by many important authors including: Leonard Baskin, Jack Beal, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, J.V. Cunningham, Harry Duncan, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Loren Eiseley, Mitchell Goodman, Donald Hall, Walter Hall, Sam Hamod, Michael Heller, William Heyen, David Kherdian, Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Kner, Ellen Lanyon, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, Harry Lewis, Robert Lowell, Khatchik Minasian, Toby Olson, George Oppen, Joel Oppenheimer, Rochelle Owens, Harry Mark Petrakis, Jerome Rothenberg, Norman Russell, Armand Schwerner, William DeWitt Snodgrass, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, William Edgar Stafford, Christopher Stephens, Louis Szathmary II, W. Thomas Taylor, Robert Vas Dias, Diane Wakoski, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, John Wieners.
Hamady has received numerous awards for his work. His books have been selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) for their annual exhibition called Fifty Books of the Year. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1969, has received three artist's research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and, in 2006, was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Crafts Council. In 2004, he was chosen by I.D.: International Design Magazine as one of the top fifty designers in the U.S.
Includes prospectuses, flyers, leaflets, exhibit catalogs, correspondence, and biographical information.
Arranged in a single chronological series
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The Walter Hamady Collection (OLPb130HAM), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
This collection includes materials that were given to William E. Stafford by Walter Hamady.
Donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Estate of William Stafford in 2008.
Processed in 2012.
Correspondence between William Stafford and Walter Hamady can be found in the
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The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
proof pages. 2 sheets folded.
1 sheeet.
prospectus for the Oppenheimer book with a of listing books published by Perishable Press
proof pages (prelims)
1 broadside prospectus advertising "Hand Paper Making"
15 photocopied pages of an interview published in
2 photocopied sheets.
1 photocopied newspaper article. Newspaper unidentified.
1 marked sheet
20 typed pages of poetry inscribed to "Bill & Dorothy [Stafford]"
1 broadside prospectus advertising "Making a Sacher Torte"
1 typed letter advertising an upcoming poster and book for the Children's Community School
1 brochure/poster, advertising the Children's Community School
1 flyer advertising "Squatting Flies/Quotables"
1 book published by the Perishable Press. This copy is inscribed by Hamady to Kim Stafford.
2 typed pages
photocopied article from
Catalog for exhibition "Made in the Midwest: Walter Hamady's 6451 Students" with letter from the publisher
nine laser printed sheets
color facsimile of Hamady's illustration inscribed to Kim Stafford
1 postcard for the Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
one Woodland Pattern Book Center newsletter with an article titled "Inside the Trojan Horse: What Walter Wrought" by Roy R. Behrens
Includes Stafford's original handwritten poem titled "Collage" written for Walter Hamady. Also includes correspondence with Kim Stafford about using the poem in a book, and the final printed broadsheet with a facsimile of the poem, which was inserted into Hamady's
1 broadside prospectus advertising "Song of the Sly Mongoose"
1 broadside prospectus "The Design on the Oriole"
1 broadside prospectus advertising "Housemarks"
1 brochure/flyer, with a statement about Perishable Press and a list of upcoming titles
Printed listing of Hamady books for sale from 3/20/2011
Photocopies from the William Stafford Archives of letters from Hamady to Stafford and carbons from Stafford to Hamady. Includes copies of attachments such as Perishable Press prospectuses. 89 letters.