Raymond E. Shank papers

Collection

Identifier: VAULT box-Wing-MS-108

Staff Only

Abstract

Calligraphy collection of correspondence, lettering samples, ephemera, greeting cards and bookplates collected by Chicago art director Raymond Shank; includes handwritten letters to Shank from James Hayes, Tom Gourdie, Anna Hornby, Samuel Katz, Geoffrey Ebbage, and Howard Swensen, handwritten letters from Alfred Fairbank and W.A. Dwiggins to William A. Kittredge, and lettering samples by Shank.

Dates

Creation: 1926-1993

Creator

Shank, Raymond E. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Chicago art director.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (26 items in 9 folders)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Organized into the following: 1. Calligraphic correspondence and bookplates, Hayes; 2. Calligraphica, Hamill and Hayes; 3. Calligraphic correspondence, Gourdie; 4. Calligraphic correspondence, Hornby, Katz, Ebbage and Hatchard's; 5. Calligraphic correspondence, Swensen; 6. Calligraphic correspondence, Dwiggens and Fairbank; 7. Calligraphica (photostats); 8. Calligraphic greeting cards, DaBoll; 9. Calligraphic lettering, Shank.

Catalog Record

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991498718805867

General Note

Includes (folder 9): Shank's lettering sample of a hand-made portfolio of marbled paper with spine and front label reading Calligraphic Correspondence.