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Count Harry Kessler letters
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kess
Abstract
Designer, publisher and patron of fine press printing. His first book was the Notizen über Mexico (1898). After founding the Cranach Press at Weimar in 1913, he commissioned type designs from Edward Johnston and a book version of Gordon Craig's staging of Hamlet with designs by Craig. Incoming correspondence, largely in English, with a small number of drafts or carbon copies of outgoing letters. Included are letters from Sidney Cockerell, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston,...
Dates:
1898-1937
Ernst F. Detterer papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dett
Abstract
Chicago designer and calligrapher, founding head of the Department of Printing Arts of the School of the Art Institute, and Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, 1931-1947. Collection focuses on Detterer's career before he came to the Newberry Library, and includes notes, memorabilia, correspondence, drawings, sketches, rubbings, and a few finished art works, including many by his Art Institute students.
Dates:
1897-1968; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1931
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- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
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- Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy) 1
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- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir 1
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