Joseph Ishill, Berkeley Heights, NJ: Printer & Anarchist

Joseph Ishill (1888 - 1966), printer, anarchist, and Berkeley Heights resident, may be experiencing a renaissance of interest. The Berkeley Heights Public Library has a small Ishill Archive which includes engraved copper printing blocks, a collection of pamphlets, and other related publications and ephemera printed by Joseph Ishill. In the last few months, several people have inquired about the library's collection of Ishill's works and correspondence. Is there a revival of interest in hand printing and/or anarchism? We don't know why Joseph Ishill is now on people's minds, but for anyone interested in the topic, below are pictures of two Ishill publications in the BHPL archive and a link to more images from the archive. BHPL's Ishill Archives can be seen by appointment only. Here is the link to the Ishill publications we have scanned into Google Documents so far.

Below are two original flyers made by Joseph Ishill to advertise a 10th library anniversary program and an exhibit of his wife's poetry at the Berkeley Heights Public Library.

Ishill's flyer for the 10th anniversary of the library

Ishill made the flyer for his wife's poetry exhibit

Related resources:

Area resident Chris R. Morgan's article about Free Acres, the utopian community founded in Berkeley Heights and Ishill's connection to it, can be found here:
Free Acres Is the Place to Be

BHPL's Google Documents folder contains the index to the Ishill Archives and some other scanned contents of the collection. This is a work in progress. More of the contents of the Ishill Archive will be scanned and added over time.

The Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan is one of the foremost collections of Ishill works
Works by and about Joseph Ishill
http://www.lib.umich.edu/joseph-ishill-authors-artists-oriole-press/works.html

Joseph Ishill and the Authors and Artists of the Oriole Press
http://www.lib.umich.edu/joseph-ishill-authors-artists-oriole-press/

List of other Ishill resources at the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/search/website/ishill

The University of Florida has a collection of Ishill works, see
A Guide to the Joseph Ishill Collection
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/ishill.htm

The Houghton Library at Harvard University has a guide to its collection of works by and about Joseph Ishill
 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00674

Alan Runfeldt's Excelsior Press, Frenchtown, NJ
 http://excelsiorpress.org/index.html

Mr. Runfeldt grew up in Berkeley Heights, knew Mr. Ishill and has one of his presses as he shows in this blog post
http://excelsiorpress.org/blog/blog.2009.html#2009.04

Update 7/21/2017
From the Passaick to the Wach Unks by The Historical Society of Berkeley Heights, 1977 (call #974.936 FRO) pp 211-212 describes Joseph Ishill's time as a resident of Berkeley Heights from 1919 until his death in 1966.