John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Scope and Content of the Collection
This is a growing collection of printed ephemera issued from approximately the late 18th century onward (bulk 20th century), mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts.
The collection includes advertising materials, artists’ books, book jackets, booklets, bookmarks, brochures, business cards, business reply cards, catalogs, envelopes, flyers, greetings cards, journal issues, keepsakes, letterheads, order forms, posters, prospectuses, proofs, and other materials issued by publishers, printers, government entities, advertising agencies, freelance artists, book sellers, libraries, universities, associations, clubs, and other organizations and companies. The term “keepsakes” encompasses a variety of items, often fine-press, created as mementos or souvenirs and can be produced in different forms such as posters, broadsides, booklets, prints, greetings cards, and bookmarks.
Type specimens and paper specimens have been excluded from this collection and removed to separate files.
Geographic ranges include North America, Great Britain, Europe, and East Asia.
The collection includes advertising materials, artists’ books, book jackets, booklets, bookmarks, brochures, business cards, business reply cards, catalogs, envelopes, flyers, greetings cards, journal issues, keepsakes, letterheads, order forms, posters, prospectuses, proofs, and other materials issued by publishers, printers, government entities, advertising agencies, freelance artists, book sellers, libraries, universities, associations, clubs, and other organizations and companies. The term “keepsakes” encompasses a variety of items, often fine-press, created as mementos or souvenirs and can be produced in different forms such as posters, broadsides, booklets, prints, greetings cards, and bookmarks.
Type specimens and paper specimens have been excluded from this collection and removed to separate files.
Geographic ranges include North America, Great Britain, Europe, and East Asia.
Dates
- approximately 1750-ongoing
- Majority of material found within 1900-1999
Creator
- Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation (Organization)
Language
Materials are in English, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, and French.
Conditions Governing Access
The John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection is 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 at reference@newberry.org.
Extent
91 Linear Feet
Abstract
Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.
Arrangement
Individual items are filed under maker or creator, not by subject, and arranged alphabetically. The exception to this is when a creator cannot be identified and then items may be filed under genre, form, or location.
Collection Stack Location
2A Link; 4A 26 5 (oversize)
Provenance
Collection originally started as a fine press ephemera file by Ernst F. Detterer, the second Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. The file was continued and enlarged in scope by later Wing Collection curators. Significant numbers of items were the gifts from the designers who created them and from files of the R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company.
Processed by
Lindsey O'Brien and Amanda Schriver, 2014-2015.
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
- Advertising
- Advertising cards
- Aliquando Press
- Alternative publications
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Announcements
- Annual reports
- Artists' books
- Beck, Bruce, 1916-2009
- Bibliotheca Wittockiana
- Birthday cards
- Blank forms
- Book jackets
- Book prospectuses
- Booklyn Artists Alliance
- Bookmarks
- Bookplates
- Booksellers' advertisements
- Booksellers' catalogs
- Bremer Presse
- Brighton Press
- Broadsides
- Brochures
- Business cards
- Buttons (informational artifacts)
- Calendars
- Calligraphy
- Calligraphy (visual works)
- Catalogs
- Centro del bel libro (Ascona, Switzerland)
- Certificates
- Challenge Machinery Company
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources
- Christmas cards
- Clippings
- Conference programs
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Dance cards
- Direct mail
- ELM Press
- Envelopes
- Exhibition catalogs
- Foolscap Press
- Graphic arts
- Graphic design (Typography)
- Greeting cards
- Gregynog Press
- Idaho Center for the Book
- Imago Press (Toronto, Ont.)
- Indulgence Press
- International Printing Museum (Carson, Calif.)
- Invitations
- Keepsakes
- Labels (identifying artifacts)
- Letterheads
- Limited Editions Club
- Liturgy Training Publications (Firm)
- Mailing labels
- Manufacturers' catalogs
- McKittrick, Bruce
- Membership lists
- Menus
- Nash, John Henry
- New Year cards
- Order forms
- Penmanship manuals
- Periodicals
- Perishable Press Limited
- Postcards
- Posters
- Prayer books
- Press releases
- Price lists
- Printed ephemera
- Printers Row Printing Museum
- Printers' advertisements
- Printing
- Printing industry
- Programs
- Promotional materials
- Proofs (printed matter)
- Prospectuses
- Publishers' advertisements
- Publishers' catalogs
- Receipts (Financial records)
- Reply cards
- Sales catalogs
- Sample books
- Society of Scribes and Illuminators (Great Britain)
- Souvenir programs
- Stickers
- Trade catalogs
- Valentines
- Zapf, Hermann
- Zines
Creator
- Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection, approximately 1750-ongoing, bulk 1900-1999
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Amanda Schriver
- Date
- ©2015.
- 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