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...