Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947
Dates
- Existence: 1888 - 1947
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ernst F. Detterer papers
Chicago designer and calligrapher, founding head of the Department of Printing Arts of the School of the Art Institute, and Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1931-1947. Collection focuses on Detterer's career before he came to the Newberry Library, and includes notes, memorabilia, correspondence, drawings, sketches, rubbings, and a few finished art works, including many by his Art Institute students.
Series 03: Ernst F. Detterer - Administrative subject files, 1921-1947
Susanne Suba papers
Letters, illustration samples, telegram, and photograph, dated between July 21, 1939 and Jan. 28, 1965, concerning the illustration work done by Susanne Suba of New York, for William A. Kittredge, of R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Press, and the Chicago book design and publishing scene in general during the 1940s.
Type specimen sheets and booklets
A collection of over 2500 type specimen sheets and other advertising materials issued by type foundries, typesetters, and printers that display typefaces, type families, or groups of types. Geographic coverage includes United States, Great Britain, and continental Europe.
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- Type
- Collection 3
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Advertisements 1
- Advertising -- Specimens 1
- Book designers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Borders (Type evidence) 1
- Calligraphers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Calligraphy -- Problems, exercises, etc. 1
- Calligraphy -- Specimens 1
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
- Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Greeting cards -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1901-1950 1
- Greeting cards -- Specimens 1
- Illustration of books -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Illustrators -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Penmanship -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Printed ephemera 1
- Printing -- Catalogs 1
- Printing -- Specimens 1
- Printing -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Trade catalogs 1
- Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy) 1
- Type and type-founding -- Specimens 1
- Type designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Type ornaments (Type evidence) 1
- Type specimens 1
- Typefaces (Type evidence) 1 + ∧ less