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Wil Hudson fonds
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50 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
Wil Hudson was a noted printer for over thirty years. In Vancouver, in the 1960s he was known as Grouse Mountain Press, New Age Press, and "Wil Hudson, Printer". In the 1970s at Cape Dorset, NWT, he published with the West Baffin Eskimo Coopeerative a native language printing type. Later, he settled in Powell River as a commercial printer until 1991.
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The fonds consists largely of print samples of commercial work produced by Hudson throughout his career as a fine printer. Print samples include commerical notices, leaflets, stationary, greeting cards, invitations, memorial notices, broadsides, cover proofs,etc. The samples include work for Gallelry Tantalus (Powell River), Alcuin Society, and the University of British Columbia.
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Inventory available. PDF document attached.