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Curt Teich Co. records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Teich Co.
Abstract
The Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection is the nation’s largest public collection of postcards and related materials. The core collection in the Teich Archives, acquired by the Lake County Discovery Museum in 1982 and subsequently transferred to the Newberry in 2016, is the industrial archives of the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, which operated from 1898 to 1978 as the world’s largest printer of view and advertising postcards. The Teich Company saved examples of nearly every image...
Dates:
1898-2002; Majority of material found within 1900-1978
Robert D. Ellis papers
Collection
Identifier: Modern-MS-Ellis
Abstract
Correspondence, business records, photograph lists, sales figures, expense accounts, and personal journals kept by Robert D. Ellis, who was a travelling photographer for Curt Teich & Co. from September 1956 through the early 1970s. His company was called Ellis-Sawyer (partner was Dick Sawyer) and they took many photographs of the American West for the company.
Dates:
1947-2004; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1970