Acknowledgements
This website was created as an independent study project for Professor Kay Vandergrift, Associate Dean of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, at Rutgers University. The independent study was part of my fulfillment of the Masters of Library Service Degree at Rutgers. However, I do not consider this the end of the project. In fact, this website really just scratches the surface. So, if anyone has information to contribute or finds errors here they wish to alert me to, please contact me.
Several people were particularly helpful in the development of this project, and I wish to acknowledge them here. Alan Runfeldt of the Excelsior Press, Frenchtown, NJ; Maureen Smyth, curator at the Historical Society of Princeton, NJ; Joanne Chaison, Research Librarian at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA and New Jersey historian Joseph Felcone all provided helpful information. Bonita Craft Grant, New Jersey Bibliographer, Special Collections, at the Alexander Library of Rutgers University was extremely helpful, and made possible the images from the printers' books. Kay Vandergrift provided much needed moral support and encouragement. And finally, thank you to Brian Foley and Danny Drennan for technical assistance. Many thanks to all!
The photograph of Isaiah Thomas' printing press appears in Isaac Collins: A Quaker Printer in 18th Century America, by Richard F. Hixson, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1968, and is included here courtesy of the Museum of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. All other photographs at this website are by Carol Van Houten.
--Carol Van Houten
This website was created as an independent study project as part of my fulfillment of the Master of Library Service (MLS) degree at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May, 2000.