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 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1-1a to 1-3

Ink on paper. 12 sheets. Folder 3: "Ben Shahn Signature in Chinese Calligraphy."



Various sizes under 24 x 37 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4-5

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1-4a to 1-5h

Including lettering for Alphabet of Creation and Haggadah. 15 sheets.



Various sizes under 24 x 60.5 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Roll 1

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1 Roll 1a-f

Graphite block lettering. Six rolled, taped, strips, numbered sequentially at right hand edge, with other numbers on some strips.



Size range: 8.8 x 125 to 143.5 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Roll 2

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1 Roll 2

Three lines of ink letters with graphite ruling. Rolled strip.



15.7 x 150 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6-8

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1-6a to 8-f

Ink and marker. 18 sheets and fragments.



Various sizes under 24 x 37 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: Roll 3

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1 Roll 3

Rolled strip with graphite numbers at regular intervals, neither metric nor inches, and height and width notations.



6.7 x 242.3 cm

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / CALLIGRAPHY AND LETTERING
Scope and Contents: D1-6877 "And to proceed on through the memory" D1-6878 "And to proceed on through the memory" - Final D1-6880 "Bring Back My Sons from Far" D1-6881 Chinese Calligraphy D1-6882 Hebrew Lettering - [Alphabet of Creation]...
 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / DRAWINGS
Scope and Contents: Ben Shahn 1-10a to 1-10b Two partial ink drawings of different aspects of the final print on tracing paper. Both mounted on cardboard. One has notes on front and back. Front: "Care This is an Original Please Return." Back: "Original Please Return to Mrs Ben Shahn" and "A Gonomony [Gnomony?]." See other "A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year" drawings": Box 3, Folder 8 and a print in Box 3, Folder 21. 1-10a: 19.8 x 26 cm 1-10b: 19 x 25.4...
 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11-12

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / DRAWINGS
Scope and Contents: Folder 11 includes printed images for the following drawings: NA 6639-6641 Temple Beth Zion - Right Hand Tablet (Brown Line) NA 6642-6643 Temple Beth Zion - Left Hand Tablet (Brown Line) NA 6645-6647 Kyrie Elison (Decorated Music) NA 6648-6649 Untitled (Straight and Arched Columns) NA 6650, NA 6652 ...
 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Ben Shahn Estate Collection / DRAWINGS
Scope and Contents:

Ben Shahn 1-13a to 1-13f

Six sheets of falcon sketches and notes.



Various sizes under 12 x 37 cm

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