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George Salter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Salter
Abstract Prominent German-American calligrapher and one of the most admired designers of book jackets in the United States. Papers consist chiefly of art work, correspondence, contracts, and printed materials relating to design projects executed in New York along with earlier German design projects. Also includes correspondence with American and German colleagues (some in German), most notably Walter Brudi, Kurt Schauer, E.F.H Schneidler, and Jeanyee Wong; drafts of articles by Salter; papers...
Dates: 1919-1980

Goodman family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

Letter Arts Review records

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-LAR
Abstract

Correspondence, calligraphic samples, advertising and press releases, magazine issues, publications, catalogs, and photographs documenting the publication of Letter Arts Review (formerly Calligraphy Idea Exchange and Calligraphy Review), a quarterly magazine devoted to contemporary and historical lettering, calligraphy, typography, and text-based art.

Dates: 1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1998

Oswald Bruce Cooper Papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Cooper
Abstract

Papers of Oswald Cooper, Chicago lettering artist, advertising designer and type designer best known for his Cooper Black and Cooper Bold typefaces. Includes art work for type designs; art boards, proofs and finished advertising pieces; and limited correspondence. There is also a file on patent cases of 1926-1928, and Cooper's testimony before Congress on the originality of typefaces, and ephemera from other artists.

Dates: 1903-1953; Majority of material found within 1919 - 1939

Raymond Franklin DaBoll Papers

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Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-DaBoll
Abstract

Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Chicago calligrapher and designer Raymond F. DaBoll; includes ephemera from other artists.

Dates: 1905-1982; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1982

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Advertising -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Design 2
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Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel 1
Briggs, Irene. Recollections of the lyceum & Chautaugua circuits. 1
Calendars (documents) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Calligraphers -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
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Europe -- Description and travel 1
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Exhibition catalogs 1
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Florida -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
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Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
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Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940 2
Cusick, Rick 2
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
Abbott Laboratories 1
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1
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Arkansas Industrial Development Commission 1
Association for the Calligraphic Arts 1
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler 1
Bertsch & Cooper 1
Bond Wheelwright Co. 1
Book Jacket Designers Guild 1
Brudi, Walter 1
Cady, James Lowell 1
Calderhead, Christopher 1
Cassel-Wronker, Lili, 1924-2019 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Chirpe, Rodney 1
Clayton, Ewan 1
Cliff Dwellers (Club) 1
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 1
DaBoll, Raymond F. 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Eager, Fred 1
Gilman, Karyn Lynn 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Goodman family 1
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Graff, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman, 1914-2009 1
Gullick, Michael 1
Higgins-McArthur Co. 1
Ingmire, Thomas 1
Kelly, Jerry, 1955- 1
Knight, Stan, 1937- 1
Kofron, Frank M. 1
Letter Arts Review 1
Limited Editions Club 1
Margo, Egdon H. 1
Marshall Field & Company 1
McArthur, Richard N. 1
Nall, Richard B. 1
National Geographic Society (U.S.) 1
Neuenschwander, J. Brody 1
Owens, Harry J. (Harry James), 1894- 1
Palladino, Robert J., 1932-2016 1
Purdue University 1
Random House (Firm) 1
Sackett, DeForest 1
Salter, Agnes 1
Salter, George, 1897-1967 1
Schauer, Georg Kurt, 1899-1984 1
Schneidler, F. H. Ernst 1
Shaw, Paul 1
Skarsgard, Susan 1
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Standard, Paul, 1896-1992 1
Taylor, Susie 1
Union League Club of Chicago 1
Vandervoort, Paul 1
Viking Press 1
Waters, Julian 1
Waters, Sheila, 1929-2022 1
Williams, Robert, 1936- 1
Wong, Jeanyee, 1920-2017 1
Zapf, Hermann 1
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