Mainly we upload reproductions of material present in our archives. However in certain cases (speaking of important Mail Art projects) we tend to upload documentation which we received only as digital reproductions or as a contemporary photocopy of the vintage originals.
We always try to search and link other online and/or offline sources referring to the actual context. Besides the sources indicated at each post we mostly used the following:
Anna Banana List = Anna Banana: The postal encounter: outside the official circuits for a different vision of the dimension of reality, Vancouver, Canada, 1981, Typescript
Artweek = Weekly art journal published in Oakland, California. Section on Competitions: Miscellaneous contains mail art show information. Specific issues cited in text.
AU = Mail art magazine edited by Art Unidentified, Hyogo, Japan. Specific issues cited in text.
Chuck Stake List = Stake, Chuck (Don Mabie): Chuck Stake Enterprizes History, 1984, Typescript photocopy
Crane = Crane, Mike – Mary Stofflet: Correspondence Art, Contemporary Press, San Francisco, 1984, pp. 451-468.
Creative Thing = Creative Thing (Leslie Caldera): Listing of 215 mail art shows participated in from 1978 to 1985, Whittier, California, 1985, Photocopy
Giovanni Fontana = Esperienze verbo-visive 1963-1983, Frosinone, Italy, Poisis, 1983
IAC = Mail art magazine published by Klaus Groh, West Germany. Specific issues cited in text.
Instant Media Dispatch = Nevai, Andrew (ed.): Instant Media Dispatch, Floridada, New York, 1978
Jean Brown = Source material (invitations, posters, catalogs) examined by Held on-site at the Jean Brown Archives, Tyringham, Massachusetts
Jesch East German List = Birger Jesch: Mail art projects and shows in GDR from the first until 1984, Krels Saalfeld, East germany, 1985, Photocopy
Koppany Marton = Koppány Márton: List of mail art shows, Budapest, Hungary, 1985, Typescript
Le Timbre = Mail art magazine edited by Daniel Daligand, Levallois, France.
Mantua Catalog = Romani Peli and Michaela Versari (eds.): Mantua Mail 78, Assessoration Cultura Comune di Mantova, Mantova, Italy, pp. 27-30.
Michel Corfu List = Michel Corfu: Liste de ma participation aux expositions ou show du mail art en 1981, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, 1981
National Stampographic = Rubber stamp magazine edited by Melody and Franklin Stein, Nort Valley Stream, New York, Specific issues cited in text.
Participation = Mail at magazin published by Clémente Padín, Montevideo, Uruguay. Specific issues cited in text.
Patricia Tavenner = Tavenner, Patricia: Mail Art Show List, Oakland, California, 1985, Photocopy
Poste Arte = Mail art magazine edited by Colectivo-3, Mexico. Specific issues cited in text.
Ruch List = Ruch, Günther: 1974-84: 10 Years Experience In The Mail Art Field, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984, Photocopy
Salvatore De Rosa = Salvatore De Rosa: List of 147 mail art shows participated in from 1980 to 1985, Salerno, Italy, 1985, Photocopy
Smile = Mail art magazine published by Joki Mailart, Minden, West Germany. Issue examined by Held was Volume 2, 1985.
Spiegelman 80 List = Spiegelman, Lon: 1984 Mailart Events, in Spiegelman’s Mailart Rag, September 1985., pp. 4-5., 14-15.
Spiegelman La List, 78-83 = Spiegelman, Lon: Los Angeles Mail Art Shows (1978 through 1983), Los Angeles, California, 1983, Typeset
Spiegelman Mail Art Rag = Mail art magazine edited by Lon Spiegelman, Los Angeles, California. Specific issues cited in text.
Spiegelman’s Umbrella (March 1984) = Special mail art issue of Umbrella magazine, later retracted by the editor.
TAM = Mail art magazine edied by Ruud Janssen, Tilberg, Holland. Specific issues cited in text.
Tommy Mew = Tommy Mew: Twenty Secrets for C.D.O. Parma, Italy, 1978, Photocopy
Tyler James Hoare = Tyler James Hoare: Listing of 53 Mail Art Shows From 1971-1985, Berkeley, California, 1985, Typescript
Umbrella = Art information magazine edited by Judith Hoffberg in Glendale, California (1978–2008). Specific issues cited in text.
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