Box 1
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Artifacts - 75th Anniversary Pen
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Artifacts - Illinois Central Pre-Fire Trestle Segment Paperweight
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Correspondence - "An Old Book and a Prayer", 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1940
Correspondence - Misc.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Correspondence - "Where Better Books are Built" - Follow, 1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1941
Correspondence - "Where Better Books are Built" - Request no Follow, 1940-41
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1940-41
Correspondence - "Where Better Books are Built" - Sent from Hammond, 1940-41
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1940-41
Correspondence - "Where Better Books are Built" - From Chicago and New York, 1940-41
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1940-41
Correspondence - "Winged Horse" and " A National Disgrace", 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Dates:
1940
Facilities - Hammond - Images - Electrotype of Plant
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Facilities - Hammond - Images - Front Door of Plant
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...
Facilities - Hammond - Specifications
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
The W.B. Conkey Co. series, at about 3 linear feet, documents some aspects of this publisher's history before it was purchased by Rand McNally in 1949 and incorporated as a division of the company. The Conkey Co. was a printing and publishing business successfully established in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, and which later moved to a new facility in Hammond, Indiana which became renowned for its new and innovative factory construction and architecture. Until it was incorporated...