Harris-Seybold Company publications
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-Z249-M457
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
- 1945-1956
Creator
- McKinven, John A. (John Alexander) (Person)
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.
- Advertisements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Advertisements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Advertising -- Printing machinery and supplies -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- American periodicals -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Annual reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Annual reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Brochures -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Brochures -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Cleveland (Ohio)
- Corporation reports -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Graphic (Harris-Seybold Company)
- Graphic arts equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Harris Impressions
- Harris-Seybold Company
- Lithography -- 20th century -- United States
- McKinven, John A. (John Alexander)
- Offset lithography
- Offset lithography -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Periodicals
- Printed ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Printed ephemera -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Printing machinery and supplies -- Marketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Printing machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Printing presses
- Printing presses -- Ohio -- Cleveland
- Technical drawings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Technical drawings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- Trade catalogs -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1901-1950
- Trade catalogs -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 1951-2000
- United States
Creator
- McKinven, John A. (John Alexander) (Person)
- 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 Repository
Contact:
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org