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Pri. Printing History and Book Arts

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Identifier: Pri
This topic covers typographers, book artists, calligraphers, designers, book artists, bookbinders, and fine or limited edition booksellers. It also includes book historians and clubs devoted to the history of the printed word and fine press books.

Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:

Emil J. Klumpp drawings

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Klumpp
Abstract

Sketches, drawings, and examples of the "Murray Hill" type, from type designer Emil J. Klumpp (1912-1997). Includes handwritten notes attached to examples of the type, and an advertisement for the Murray Hill type design from the Typography Shop, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1956-1966

Emma Corkum autograph album

 Item
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-282
Abstract

Autographs collected by Emma Corkum, some with poetry and drawings, from friends and family in New Ross (Nova Scotia), Wakefield (Massachusetts), Boston, and New York City; most dated between 1882 and 1894.

Dates: 1882-1894

Enid Eder Perkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Perkins
Abstract

Original calligraphic and illuminated work by self-employed New York artist, together with correspondence, photographs of commissioned work, some study materials.

Dates: 1929-1972

Enquirer Printing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Enquirer
Abstract

Chiefly correspondence between the Enquirer Printing Co. and the circuses for which it printed between 1948 and 1978. There are also photocopies of some ledger sheets from the 1920s concerning shipments to theater companies.

Dates: 1922-1979

Ernest J. Wessen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wessen
Abstract

Correspondence and related materials, 1956-1971, of Ernest J. Wessen of the Midland Rare Book Company of Mansfield, Ohio, and Joseph F. Dush, an Ohio book collector who acquired much of his collection from Wessen. Also contains correspondence with Arthur Duncan, Jim Scott, biographical material and photographs of Wessen, and four dealer catalogs.

Dates: 1942-1999; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1971

Ernst F. Detterer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dett
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1897-1968; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1931

Frederic Warde Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Warde
Abstract

Correspondence between Frederic Warde and William A. Kittredge with a few related items.

Dates: 1921-1939

Fritz Kredel letters

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kr
Abstract

Consists mostly of letters written by wood engraver Kredel to Joseph Graves from 1948-1960.

Dates: 1948-1960

Garrett A. Boge collection of inscriptional rubbings

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Boge Rubbings
Abstract

343 rubbings of inscriptional stones, chiefly in Florence and Rome, made to exemplify Roman capital letter forms and early Christian symbolism. Mostly art originals, a few photocopies.

Dates: 1991-2007

Garrett A. Boge papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Boge
Abstract

Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Garrett A. Boge, lettering artist and type designer based in Kansas City, Seattle, and Rome, Italy.

Dates: 1971-2013; Majority of material found within 1982 - 2009

Gene Dekovic Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dekovic
Abstract

Professional and some personal papers of Chicago and California designer and photographer, Gene Dekovic, who worked as a freelancer for most of his life. These files include professional papers relating to design and publishing ventures, and to a lesser extent his career as a photographer and author.

Dates: 1951-2006

George A. Seaman letters and printing specimens

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-16
Abstract

Letters, postcards and printed ephemera addressed to or relating to George A. Seaman, a practical printer in Chicago, Ill. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Included are letters and cards from Robert Hilton of The British Printer, W. McKetcham of the Poughkeepsie News-Press and News-Telegraph, and James W. Hinkley of the American Graphic Company.

Dates: 1883-1888

George Salter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Salter
Abstract Prominent German-American calligrapher and one of the most admired designers of book jackets in the United States. Papers consist chiefly of art work, correspondence, contracts, and printed materials relating to design projects executed in New York along with earlier German design projects. Also includes correspondence with American and German colleagues (some in German), most notably Walter Brudi, Kurt Schauer, E.F.H Schneidler, and Jeanyee Wong; drafts of articles by Salter; papers...
Dates: 1919-1980

Gerald Campbell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Campbell
Abstract

Original lettering work by self-employed Detroit artist Gerald "Jerry" Campbell (Campbell/Isbell Alphabets), some personal and some for commercial clients, including many in the automobile industry. Includes Christmas cards, sketches, and drawings.

Dates: 1970-2010

Gertrude Lueneburg Carrier Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Carrier
Abstract

Chicago calligrapher, illuminator, and designer. The papers consist largely of roughs and correspondence relating to freelance design and lettering projects. There are also a few student works and some juvenalia.

Dates: 1905-1994

Gintautas Vezys Bookplate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Vezys
Abstract

Collection of more than 4700 bookplates and related ephemera assembled by Lithuanian–American publisher and scholar, Gintautas Vezys. Bookplates were individually designed and hand-printed, and were executed by primarily Lithuanian artists.

Dates: approximately 1958-approximately 2006

Gookin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Harris-Seybold Company publications

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-Z249-M457
Abstract

113 various Harris-Seybold Company publications and advertising materials created and collected by account executive John A. McKinven, between 1945 and 1956. The Harris-Seybold Company was a leading manufacturer of lithographic and letterpress printing equipment, and was located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dates: 1945-1956

Harvey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harvey
Abstract

Collection of letters, photographs, diaries, writings, business records, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago native and longtime Rand McNally employee Bennet B. Harvey, his wife Dorothy Wegener Harvey, their son Bennet B. Harvey, Jr., and their ancestors, many of whom were early Chicago settlers and involved in the development of the city. Families represented include Botsford, Chapin, Fisk, Gehrke, Harvey, and Wegener.

Dates: 1800-2007; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1984

Helaine Victoria Press ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-Z232-H433 H45-1973
Abstract

102 items created by Helaine Victoria Press between 1973 and 1995. Includes postcards, bookmarks, catalogs, newsletters, promotional materials, broadsides, and other printed ephemera.

Dates: 1973-1995; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1989

Helen A. Sclair ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Sclair Ephemera
Abstract

Memorial cards and ribbons, funeral programs, cemetery and mortuary advertisements and signs, and other printed ephemera relating to death, mourning, and the funeral industry, collected by scholar Helen A. Sclair.

Dates: 1860s-2000s

Henry Lewis Bullen papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio-Wing-MS-49
Abstract

Letters, postcards, drafts of essays; all concerning the origin of the American point system invented by Nelson Crocker Hawks, on Hawks' career as an early California type founder, and on such other early California printing industry figures as W.F. Shattuck, Andrew Foreman, William Faulkner, and others.

Dates: 1908-1912

Henry Lewis Bullen printing history collection

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio-Wing-MS-50
Abstract

Correspondence and ephemera from the files of Henry Lewis Bullen, including a description in Spanish of the career of Mexico City printer José de Jáuregui; 2 photographs of R.W. Wilson; two ms. poems on bookbinding.

Dates: 1933-1936

Henry Rosemont Typographical Union collection

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-RosemontH
Abstract

A variety of files concerning the Chicago Typographical Union (Local 16), and its parent organization the International Typographical Union, compiled by the Union's unofficial historian, Henry Rosemont. Includes ephemera, manuscript and printed materials relating to the union activities, Rosemont's research notebooks about unions and union history, and information about other labor and trade groups. There is extensive information about the Chicago newspaper strike of 1947-1949.

Dates: approximately 1920s-1979

Herman Cohen correspondence and notes

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Wing-MS-21
Abstract

Correspondence and notes concerning the copy of Isaiah Thomas's A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, 1785. which was acquired from Cohen's Chiswick Book Shop in 1954 by the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Leslie E. Bliss, John Eliot Alden, R.W.G. Vail, Roland Orvil Baughman, and Philip Hofer.

Dates: 1954