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Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

A.C. McClurg & Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-McClurg
Abstract

Correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, record books, a scrapbook, and other materials from the A.C. McClurg publishing company, which was established in Chicago in 1872.

Dates: 1873-1967; Majority of material found within 1910-1950

Burton Cherry ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 1-183
Abstract

Materials designed and collected by Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry, between approximately 1929 and approximately 1962. The collection includes correspondence to and from Cherry, items he designed or which were produced under his supervision, items possibly designed by Cherry, articles containing information about his work, and ephemera he collected.

Dates: approximately 1929-approximately 1962

Cloyd Head papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Head
Abstract

Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.

Dates: 1881-1968

Muriel Underwood papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Wing-MS-96
Abstract

Correspondence (some calligraphy), clippings, printed ephemera, notes on phone calls, etc. concerning the 50th anniversary publication of the Society of Typographic Arts and other projects, such as reprinting the STA's Book of Oz Cooper : an appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper; correspondents include Robert Borja, Thea Wheelwright of Bond Wheelwright Co., Susan Scott and Paula ThompSon of Wexford Press.

Dates: 1950-1977; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1977

Raymond E. Shank papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Wing-MS-108
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: 1926-1993

Susanne Suba papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.folio-Wing-MS-133
Abstract

Letters, illustration samples, telegram, and photograph, dated between July 21, 1939 and Jan. 28, 1965, concerning the illustration work done by Susanne Suba of New York, for William A. Kittredge, of R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Press, and the Chicago book design and publishing scene in general during the 1940s.

Dates: 1939-1965; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1948