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Burton Cherry ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-ZC 1-183
Abstract
Materials designed and collected by Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry, between approximately 1929 and approximately 1962. The collection includes correspondence to and from Cherry, items he designed or which were produced under his supervision, items possibly designed by Cherry, articles containing information about his work, and ephemera he collected.
Dates:
approximately 1929-approximately 1962
Don May papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-May
Abstract
Commercial design work and professional papers of May, a designer and art director for several Chicago-based publications. May later moved his practice to California where he became a regional painter as well as a designer.
Dates:
1927-2009; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1982
Douglas C. McMurtrie papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-McMu
Abstract
Chicago designer, publisher and printing historian. Includes extensive correspondence concerning his professional roles at Cuneo Press, Ludlow Typograph Co., the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, and various WPA projects, as well as files of material for his many writings on printing history and design. A few files concern his early design work, work with disabled veterans, and his role as publisher of works on typography, printing and of the early lesbian novel, Mary...
Dates:
1850-1944; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1944
Elmer Jacobs papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Jacobs
Abstract
Original advertising and magazine art, correspondence, speech texts, tax records, photographs, printed ephemera, and a radio interview by Chicago freelance designer and illustrator Elmer Jacobs.
Dates:
1925-1982
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
Gene Dekovic Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Dekovic
Abstract
Professional and some personal papers of Chicago and California designer and photographer, Gene Dekovic, who worked as a freelancer for most of his life. These files include professional papers relating to design and publishing ventures, and to a lesser extent his career as a photographer and author.
Dates:
1951-2006
Gertrude Lueneburg Carrier Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Carrier
Abstract
Chicago calligrapher, illuminator, and designer. The papers consist largely of roughs and correspondence relating to freelance design and lettering projects. There are also a few student works and some juvenalia.
Dates:
1905-1994
Gookin family papers
Collection
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
John B. Goetz Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Goetz
Abstract
Correspondence and job files of Chicago book and magazine designer John B. Goetz. The largest part of the collection concerns his work on the award-winning translation of the Iliad by Richard Lattimore, illustrated by Leonard Baskin. There are also files on some of his freelance design projects.
Dates:
1961-1992
Muriel Underwood papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Wing-MS-96
Abstract
Correspondence (some calligraphy), clippings, printed ephemera, notes on phone calls, etc. concerning the 50th anniversary publication of the Society of Typographic Arts and other projects, such as reprinting the STA's Book of Oz Cooper : an appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper; correspondents include Robert Borja, Thea Wheelwright of Bond Wheelwright Co., Susan Scott and Paula ThompSon of Wexford Press.
Dates:
1950-1977; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1977
Oswald Bruce Cooper Papers
Collection
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 E. Shank papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Wing-MS-108
Abstract
Calligraphy collection of correspondence, lettering samples, ephemera, greeting cards and bookplates collected by Chicago art director Raymond Shank; includes handwritten letters to Shank from James Hayes, Tom Gourdie, Anna Hornby, Samuel Katz, Geoffrey Ebbage, and Howard Swensen, handwritten letters from Alfred Fairbank and W.A. Dwiggins to William A. Kittredge, and lettering samples by Shank.
Dates:
1926-1993
Raymond Franklin DaBoll Papers
Collection
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
Robert Hunter Middleton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Middleton
Abstract
Diaries, notes, original manuscripts of writings, design art, correspondence, financial records, printed ephemera, and type specimens from the collection of Robert Hunter Middleton, type designer and fine printer.
Dates:
1921-1985
Susanne Suba papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT.folio-Wing-MS-133
Abstract
Letters, illustration samples, telegram, and photograph, dated between July 21, 1939 and Jan. 28, 1965, concerning the illustration work done by Susanne Suba of New York, for William A. Kittredge, of R.R. Donnelley's Lakeside Press, and the Chicago book design and publishing scene in general during the 1940s.
Dates:
1939-1965; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1948
Taylor Poore Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Poore
Abstract
Original art work, correspondence, and printed pieces by designer, art director, and Carl Street Studio resident, Taylor Poore. Collection includes some family photographs and genealogical information, hand-painted alphabet cards, printed family holiday cards, recipes, and designs for corporations.
Dates:
1904-1994
Tom Greensfelder design records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Greensf
Abstract
Chicago calligrapher and designer. Files concerning Oakdale Press children’s bookplate designs and other projects.
Dates:
1989-2015
William A. Kittredge papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kit
Abstract
Chicago designer and author on design, Director of Design and Typography for the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Chicago from 1922-1945. Largely a collection of printed ephemera selected to exemplify the best design of the twentieth century, this collection also includes a few original designs by Kittredge, some correspondence with other designers (most notably Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward A. Wilson, D.B. Updike, and Edward Penfield), and extensive samples of Kittredge's printed...
Dates:
1907-1952; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1944
William Edward Newton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Newton
Abstract
Correspondence, original design work, and music by Chicago musician, artist and designer William Edward Newton.
Dates:
1914-1994; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1994
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