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Bruce Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rogers
Abstract

Correspondence, a few works, and miscellaneous items relating to Bruce Rogers, an American typographer and designer of books.

Dates: 1902-1951

Kenneth Sawyer Goodman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman
Abstract

Works and personal materials of Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, including manuscript, typescript, and published plays, poems, and short stories, correspondence, drawings, diaries, and programs from theatrical productions, photographs, and mementoes, including wood printing blocks, military items, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1883-1971; Majority of material found within 1900-1917

Matt Rizzo papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rizzo
Abstract

Typescript essays and a treatise (some in Braille) by Matt Rizzo, Chicago philosopher/writer who was blinded in a robbery at age 22. Collection also includes photo-reproductions of Rizzo with son Charlie and guide dogs, a news clipping about Rizzo's life, audiocassettes of Rizzo dictating parts of his works, a Perkins Brailler, and Rizzo's two Brailling slates with an accompanying stylus for writing Braille.

Dates: approximately 1940s-2002

R. Ford Bentley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Bentley
Abstract

Personal, family, and professional papers including photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. Also includes promotional materials and correspondence pertaining to many of the printing related companies that Ford worked for.

Dates: approximately 1830-1990; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Rand McNally and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract

Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.

Dates: 1856-1996

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Photographs -- 1951-2000 3
Manuscripts, American 2
Advertising -- Printing machinery and supplies 1
Advertising executives -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Audiocassettes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Blind -- Printing and writing systems -- Equipment and supplies 1
Blind -- United States 1
Book designers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Braille -- 1951-2000 1
Braille -- Equipment and supplies 1
Braille books 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Industries 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Children's books -- Publishing 1
Compact discs -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Dramatists, American -- 20th century 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Fine books -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence 1
Graphic arts equipment industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Hammond (Ind.) -- Industries 1
Little theater movement -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Map publishing -- Canada 1
Map publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Moving images -- 1951-2000 1
One-act plays, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Philosophers -- United States -- 20th century 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Playwriting 1
Poems 1
Printing -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Printing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Printing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Printing blocks 1
Printing machinery and supplies -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Printing machinery and supplies -- Marketing 1
Printing machinery industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Printing plants -- Illinois 1
Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Publishers and publishing -- Indiana -- Hammond 1
Publishers' catalogs 1
Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
Scripts (documents) 1
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater programs 1
Theatrical productions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1910-1920 1
Typescripts 1
Typewriters -- 1951-2000 1
Typographers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Typography -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Names
Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975 1
Art Institute of Chicago. Students' League 1
Asheville School (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Bentley, Arthur, 1876-1946 1
Bentley, R. Ford (Robert Ford), 1909-1994 1