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Curt Teich & Co.

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Bessie Barnes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Barnes
Abstract

Photographs, newspaper reviews and miscellaneous personal items relating to Bessie Barnes, producer of nightclub theatrical reviews in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: 1896-1992

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

Geller collection of hotel postcards and luggage labels

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-NC1875-U6-G45
Abstract

Collection of hotel postcards and hotel luggage labels primarily issued in North America, South America, and Europe between 1900 and 1992.

Dates: 1900-1992; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970

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

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Advertising -- Hotels 1
Audiovisual materials 1
Color printing (Printing) 1
Correspondence 1