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
Creator
- Shank, Raymond E. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Chicago art director.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (26 items in 9 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Organized into the following: 1. Calligraphic correspondence and bookplates, Hayes; 2. Calligraphica, Hamill and Hayes; 3. Calligraphic correspondence, Gourdie; 4. Calligraphic correspondence, Hornby, Katz, Ebbage and Hatchard's; 5. Calligraphic correspondence, Swensen; 6. Calligraphic correspondence, Dwiggens and Fairbank; 7. Calligraphica (photostats); 8. Calligraphic greeting cards, DaBoll; 9. Calligraphic lettering, Shank.
General Note
Includes (folder 9): Shank's lettering sample of a hand-made portfolio of marbled paper with spine and front label reading Calligraphic Correspondence.
- Bookplates -- Specimens
- Calligraphers -- Correspondence
- Calligraphy -- Specimens
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950
- Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000
- DaBoll, Raymond F.
- Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources
- Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison) -- Correspondence
- Ebbage, Geoffrey -- Correspondence
- Fairbank, Alfred J. -- Correspondence
- Gourdie, Tom -- Correspondence
- Greeting cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950
- Greeting cards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000
- Hayes, James -- Correspondence
- Hornby, Anna -- Correspondence
- Katz, Samuel -- Correspondence
- Kittredge, William A. (William Albion) -- Correspondence
- Shank, Raymond E. -- Correspondence
- Swensen, Howard -- Correspondence
Creator
- Shank, Raymond E. (Person)
- Status
- Catalog Record Only
- 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