Accounts

Creator

Maureen Cummins
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Creation Date

1999

Keywords

slaves (people), slavery, Oklahoma, artists' books

Description

1 book, 39 pages. "..printed by Maureen Cummins in the summer of 1999 at Oregon College of Art and Craft. The found ledger pages are financial accounts kept by the cotton-trading company of C.A. Burgess, and span the years 1862 to 1868. The text is excerpted from the WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives.."--Colophon. The book was printed in an edition of ten copies, bound into boards covered with indigo papers handmade by Dieu Donne. The type is Gill Sans Bold, handcast by Michael Bixler. You hold copy number 3"--Colophon.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

http://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1112639~S4

Press

[Portland] : Oregon College of Art and Craft, 1999.

Rights

©Cummins, Maureen. Portland, OR. Oregon College of Art and Craft, 1999.

Materials / Techniques

paper

Measurements

34 cm