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Series 5: Book Production/Promotion Records, 1894-1998

 Series
Identifier: 5

  • Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

This series includes all documentation of the publishing process of the Kerr Co. literature, as well as the promotion and selling of the literature. Layouts, artwork, and photographs used to illustrate the publications are included, as well as information on printers and binders employed to do the physical production of the books. The series contains price lists, catalogs, promotional brochures, fliers, event posters, and reviews of certain publications (arranged alphabetically by title of the book) used to help market and sell the literature. Occasionally the company would employ sales representatives to help distribute the publications, and the correspondence is included here. At the end of this series are card file records, indexing the names and addresses of people and institutions to whom promotional literature was to be mailed: faculty, individuals, book wholesalers and distributors, organizations, other periodical publishers, and book dealers.

Dates

  • Creation: 1894-1998

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Charles H. Kerr Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Arrangement note

Arranged by size and type of material: General Files, then Photographs, then Card Files of Mailing addresses.

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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