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Hayes, James, 1907-1993

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1907 - 1993

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Ernst F. Detterer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dett
Abstract

Chicago designer and calligrapher, founding head of the Department of Printing Arts of the School of the Art Institute, and Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1931-1947. Collection focuses on Detterer's career before he came to the Newberry Library, and includes notes, memorabilia, correspondence, drawings, sketches, rubbings, and a few finished art works, including many by his Art Institute students.

Dates: 1897-1968; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1931

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago X

Additional filters:

Subject
Bookplates -- Specimens 1
Calligraphers -- Correspondence 1
Calligraphers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Calligraphy -- Problems, exercises, etc. 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1