Item: Nick Lyons ephemera collection, 1932-2005
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Finding Aid Title: Nick Lyons ephemera collection, 1932-2005
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2475
Date Range of Collection: 1932-2005
Creator of Materials: Lyons, Nick
Content Description: The Lyons Press records include the corporate history of the firm represented by the by-laws, assorted minutes, contracts and agreements with authors, business plans, financial papers and investors and publisher agreements. Original editorial manuscripts of books published by Lyons Press and bound advance uncorrected proofs and galley prints, a full set of autographed catalogs, promotional materials and company memos are included. Also received were over 320 subject files for prominent authors and artists including Art Flick, Charles Brooks, John Troy, Tom McGuane, Paul Schullery, Ed Zern, Len Wright, Valerie Haig-Brown, and Verlyn Klinkenborg. Some were great friends and some were business associates. In addition, the collection includes: numerous original rough drafts, with notes and handwritten editorial notations, of articles and columns written by Nick Lyons for publications including the Fly Fisherman Magazine, Field and Stream and the New York Times, introductions, prefaces and forewords for many prominent fly fishing books, edited speech notes and cards for talks at meetings of Trout Unlimited chapters, the Anglers Club of New York, the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and conventions of organizations and companies related to fishing and publishing. Also contained in the collection are original art works, photographs, and personal memorabilia.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv68646
Keywords: trout and salmonids, historical photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, publishers, prominent authors, fishing, trout unlimited, works of art, nick lyons, lyons press, manuscripts and publications, art flick, charles brooks, john troy, tom mcguane, paul schul
Subjects: Trout, Salmonids, and Angling History
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