Series 03: Ernst F. Detterer - Administrative subject files, 1921-1947
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and subject files covering all aspects of Detterer's professional work at the Newberry. Subject files relate specifically to the administration of the Wing Collection (exhibitions, booklists, statistics, Wing Classification, and WPA printing magazine project) and printing in general (calligraphy, Oriental printing, an incunabula census, and printing presses). There are also printing samples and correspondence from such organizations as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Calligraphy Study Group, and the Caxton, First Edition, and Grolier Clubs and there is correspondence with Ray DaBoll, Eric Gill, Frederic Goudy, Alfred Hamill, and others. In addition, there are project files (correspondence, drawings, proofs, revisions, artifacts) relating to Detterer's design of the Newberry Library Bindery Typeface.
Dates
- Creation: 1921-1947
Creator
- Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.
Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.
Biography of Ernst F. Detterer
From 1931 to 1947, Ernst F. Detterer served as the second Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. As Wing Custodian, Detterer, a noted calligrapher, acquired the extensive C. L. Ricketts calligraphy collection (1942), established the Newberry Calligraphy Study Group, and designed the Newberry Library Bindery Typeface.
Extent
10.4 Linear Feet (12 boxes and 4 oversize boxes)
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically (correspondents and subjects interfiled) with Newberry Library Bindery Typeface project files at end, followed by oversize boxes containing additional files from the alphabetical and Bindery Typeface sequences.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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