Harris-Seybold Company publications
Scope and Content of the Collection
Collection of sales brochures, magazine inserts, annual reports, model specifications and other publications created and collected by John A. McKinven; includes 12 scattered issues (Aug./Sept. 1945-Mar./Apr. 1948) of the house organ, Harris Impressions, and issues 1-7 (Jan. 1952-June 1954) of the Harris-Seybold graphic arts industry publication, "Graphic".
Dates
- Creation: 1945-1956
Creator
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Harris-Seybold Company publications are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Harris-Seybold Company publications are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Biography of John A. McKinven
Account executive at Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. for the Harris-Seybold Company and its predecessor Harris-Seybold-Potter. Harris-Seybold Company, located in Cleveland, Ohio was a manufacturer of lithographic and letterpress presses, folding machines, lithographic chemicals, etc. Their advertising promoted lithographic printing generally as well as their own products.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet (1 box and 2 envelopes)
Abstract
113 various Harris-Seybold Company publications and advertising materials created and collected by account executive John A. McKinven, between 1945 and 1956. The Harris-Seybold Company was a leading manufacturer of lithographic and letterpress printing equipment, and was located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Organization
Organized in two series
- Series 1: Advertising materials, annual reports, and other printed ephemera issued by the Harris-Seybold Company, 1945-1956
- Box 1
- Series 2: Issues 1-7 of "Graphic", published by the Harris-Seybold Company, 1952-1954
- Envelopes 1-2
Collection Stack Location
3a 29
Provenance
Gift, 1998.
Encoded by
Encoded by Joy Orillo-Dotson, 2016.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Services, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
- Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) (Organization)
- Harris-Seybold Company (Organization)
- McKinven, John A. (John Alexander), 1920- (Person)
Genre / Form
- Advertisements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Advertisements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Annual reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Annual reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Brochures -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Brochures -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Printed ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Printed ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Technical drawings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Technical drawings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Trade catalogs -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Trade catalogs -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
Geographic
Topical
- Advertising -- Printing machinery and supplies -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- American periodicals -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Corporation reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Graphic (Harris-Seybold Company)
- Graphic arts equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Harris Impressions
- Lithography -- 20th century -- United States
- Offset lithography
- Offset lithography -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Periodicals
- Printing machinery and supplies -- Marketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Printing machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Printing presses
- Printing presses -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Title
- Inventory of the Harris-Seybold Company publications, 1945-1956
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Joy Orillo-Dotson, 2016
- Date
- ©2016.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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