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Grabhorn, Jane Bissell

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Personal name headingGrabhorn, Jane Bissell
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Variant(s)Grabhorn, Jane, 1911-1973
Grabhorn, Martha Jane Bissell, 1911-1973
See alsoFounded corporate body: Jumbo Press
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Founded corporate body: Colt Press
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Grabhorn Press
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Birth date1911-06-29
Death date1973-10-10
Place of birthLivermore (Calif.)
Place of deathSan Francisco (Calif.)
Field of activityLetterpress printing
AffiliationGrabhorn Press
Colt Press
Jumbo Press
Profession or occupationPrinters Typographers Bookbinders
Found inHer A California gold rush miscellany, 1934.
Bender, J.T. Catalogue of an exhibition of the typographic work of Jane Grabhorn ... 1956: t.p. (Jane Grabhorn)
Snow, M.C. Jane Grabhorn's grandmother's diary, 1974: t.p. (Jane Grabhorn) p. 7 (died in 1973; text implies death was Oct. 1, 1973) p. 12 (Martha Jane Bissell Grabhorn) p. 8 (co-owner of the Colt Press and owner of the Jumbo Press, operated within the walls of the Grabhorn Press)
FamilySearch, 29 September 2015 (Martha Jane Bissell; md. Robert Grabhorn; born 29 June 1911, Livermore, California; died 10 October 1973, San Francisco, Calif.)
OCLC, 29 September 2015 (usage: Jane Grabhorn; very little usage for Jane Bissell Grabhorn)
Jane Grabhorn, 2010: abstract (Jane Bissell Grabhorn (1911-1973), a woman printer, typographer, and bookbinder in San Francisco's fine printing industry; wife of Robert Grabhorn and a member of the Grabhorn Press team; also responsible for two printing ventures: the Jumbo Press imprint, under which she published books, pamphlets, and humorous ephemera; and the Colt Press, an independent book printing and publishing venture in which she partnered with William Matson Roth)
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