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University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Sunwise Turn Bookshop:

A Preliminary Inventory of Its Records in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center


Creator: Sunwise Turn Bookshop, ca. 1916-1928
Title: Sunwise Turn Bookshop Records
Dates: ca. 1897-1958 (bulk 1916-1927)
Abstract: The records of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop consist of corporate and other financial records, material on the store’s interior design, professional correspondence, event announcements, clippings, personal letters sent to Mary Mowbray-Clarke, and personal correspondence and two diaries of Madge Jenison, dating from circa 1897-1958.
Extent: 5 boxes (2.10 linear feet)
Language: English
Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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The records of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop consist of corporate and other financial records, material on the store’s interior design, professional correspondence, event announcements, clippings, personal letters sent to Mary Mowbray-Clarke, and personal correspondence and two diaries of Madge Jenison, dating from circa 1897-1958. The materials are arranged in a single alphabetical sequence.

Founded by Mowbray-Clarke and Jenison in 1916, the Sunwise Turn sold books, art, textiles, and sculpture; published small editions; and hosted readings and other literary events until it closed in 1927. The corporation was dissolved in 1928. The financial and corporate records are fragmentary, covering only certain periods with varying degrees of completeness. Of particular interest are the documents listing the corporation’s stockholders and a large number of book orders for the year 1926, which provide a sense of the bookstore’s stock at that time. Other materials of note include two folders containing correspondence and other documents regarding the bookshop of The Arts and Crafts Theater of Detroit (in folders marked "Corporate Reports 1925-1927" and "Detroit Theater Bookshop"), Mowbray-Clarke’s notes for lectures on the bookshop and the book trade and personal correspondence with Beatrice Wood from the 1910s, and Madge Jenison’s diary from 1898 with her later inserted annotations.

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Restrictions

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Open for research

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Administrative Information

Acquisition:

Purchase, 1977 (R 7538)

The Sunwise Turn materials arrived at the Ransom Center mixed with the papers of Barbara McLain. Since no relation could be found between Barbara McLain and The Sunwise Turn, it was decided to separate out McLain’s collection.

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Molly Schwartzburg and Joan Sibley, 2006

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Sources:

Bishop, Ted. "The Sunwise Turn: The Modern Bookshop." Make It New: The Rise of Modernism. Ed. Kurt Heinzelman. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Jenison, Madge. Sunwise Turn: A Human Comedy of Bookselling. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923

"The Sunwise Turn: A Modern Bookshop." The Publishers' Weekly (22 April 1916): 1361-1362.

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Container List

 

Box Folder
1 1 General information
2 Accounts, 1919-1920
3 Accounts, 1919-1925
4 The Angel of the Presence
5 B
6 Calhoun, Eleanor. The Way
7 Cancelled checks, 1924
Box Folder
2 1 Cancelled checks, 1925
2 Checkbooks
3 Common stock, 1924
4 Corporate records, 1916-1928
Box Folder
3 Corporation reports
1 1916-1917
2 1917-1918
3 1920-1921
4 1923-1924
5 1924-1925
6 1925-1927
7 Correspondence, ca. 1908-1927
8 Deposits, 1926
9 Designs and decoration orders
Box Folder
4 1 Detroit Theater Book Shop
2 Diary, 1897-1898?
3 Foreign bills
4 Jenison, Madge. Journal, 1958
5 Magazine bills
6 Outstanding bills
Box Folder
5 1 Preferred stock, 1916-1919
2 Preferred stock, 1924-1925
3-5 Sales slips
6 Sales slips; tax returns

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