The Zamorano Club is a
bibliographic
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
and manuscript collecting society in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest organization of its type in Southern California.
It was founded on January 25, 1928.
It was named after
Agustín V. Zamorano
Agustín Vicente Zamorano (1798–1842), was a printer, soldier, and provisional Comandante General in the north of Alta California.
History
Agustín Zamorano was born in Spanish Florida to Spanish parents within the Spanish colonial Viceroy ...
who brought the first printing press to California.
The club hosts lectures and publishes books.
Lawyer
William W. Clary, publisher
W. Irving Way, and illustrator
Garner A. Beckett
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Places United States
* Garner, Arkansas
* Garner, Iowa
* Garner, Missouri
* Garner, North Carolina
Other uses
* Garner (surname), a surname
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were members.
Women were not allowed to be members of the Club until 1990.
The archives of the Zamarano Club are held in the collections of the University of Southern California's Special Collections,
Newberry Library
The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located on Washington Square in Chicago, Illinois. It has been free and open to the public since 1887. Its collections encompass a variety of topics rela ...
, the
Claremont Colleges
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States. They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scr ...
,
Occidental College
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...
, and the University of California at Los Angeles'
Clark Memorial Library
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Clark Library), an affiliated library of the University of California, Los Angeles, holds rare books and manuscripts with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641–1800), Osc ...
.
See also
*
Zamorano Eighty
The Zamorano Eighty is a list of books intended to represent the most significant early volumes published on the History of California, history of California. It was compiled in 1945 by members of the Zamorano Club, a Los Angeles-based group of bi ...
References
External links
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Bibliography
Non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles
1928 establishments in California
Arts organizations established in 1928
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