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Elmer Jacobs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Jacobs
Abstract

Original advertising and magazine art, correspondence, speech texts, tax records, photographs, printed ephemera, and a radio interview by Chicago freelance designer and illustrator Elmer Jacobs.

Dates: 1925-1982

R. Hoe & Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Hoe
Abstract

R. Hoe & Company was the largest manufacturer of printing presses and press equipment in the U.S. during the 19th century. Collection consists of incoming letters to the Hoe Company from customers in many states and several European and Latin American countries, deriving from 3 or more letter books of 1858, 1873 and 1877-1878. There are also some 1873-1878 internal memos, patent correspondence, and letters from regional agents of the Hoe Company.

Dates: 1858-1878