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Dena Epstein Root & Cady Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Epstein
Abstract
Research notes and other materials concerning the firm of Root & Cady, a Chicago based music publishing firm that operated from 1858-1871, collected by Dena Epstein. Also includes information on other 19th century music publishers and composers.
Dates:
1843-1987; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1871
Nathan Cahoon Geer letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT Case-Wing-MS-+Z311 .G27
Abstract
Collection of letters to and from Chicago printer Geer, relating to printing in Chicago and Waukegan, Illinois. Also included Scale and prices for book and job printing ... [Peoria, 1859] and A catalogue of the different varieties, of printing ... [Chicago : Geer & Wilson] 1846.
Dates:
1846-1854
Rand McNally and Company records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rand
Abstract
Business records of the Rand McNally Company, established in 1856 in Chicago. The firm became well known for its cartographic publishing, but also produced a variety of trade books, textbooks, periodicals, and printing jobs such as railroad tickets and coupons. Includes records of financial, marketing, and production activities, including correspondence; visual materials, including photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks; printing artifacts and samples, etc.
Dates:
1856-1996
Willens & Company business and advertising specimens
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Willens & Co.
Abstract
Collection of business forms and cards, advertisements, and other commercial printing specimens created by Chicago printing firm Willens & Company. Also included in the collection are brochures, catalogs, and other text describing the products and services of the company and current rates. The specimens were originally compiled in a three-ring binder for a sales representative to demonstrate the company's line of "standardized advertising and printed necessities and to take orders for...
Dates:
1939
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
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- Chicago (Ill.) -- Industries 1
- Children's books -- Publishing 1
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
- Coupons 1
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- Ephemera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
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- Hammond (Ind.) -- Industries 1
- Labels (identifying artifacts) 1
- Manufacturers' catalogs 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Map publishing -- Canada 1
- Map publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
- Menus 1
- Moving images -- 1951-2000 1
- Music -- United States -- 19th century 1
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- Office equipment and supplies -- United States -- Catalogs 1
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- Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
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- Receipts (Financial records) 1
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- Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
- Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
- Stationery 1
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- American Institute of Graphic Arts 1
- Art Directors Club (New York, N.Y.) 1
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- Board of Music Trade of the United States of America 1
- Cady, C. M. (Chauncey Marvin) 1
- Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland) 1
- Conkey, William B. 1
- Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison) 1
- Epstein, Dena J. 1
- Franklin Printing Company (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Geer, Nathan Cahoon 1
- Henry Tolman (Firm) 1
- Higgins, H. M. (Hiram M.) 1
- Jacumski, Stephen 1
- Kent, Rockwell 1
- Kittredge, William A. (William Albion) 1
- Lyon & Healy 1
- McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 1
- McNally, Andrew, 1909- 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
- Penfield, Edward 1
- Rand McNally and Company 1
- Rolph-McNally Limited 1
- Root & Cady 1
- Root, George F. (George Frederick) 1
- Ruzicka, Rudolph 1
- Updike, Daniel Berkeley 1
- W.B. Conkey Company 1
- Willens & Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Wilson, Edward A. (Edward Arthur) 1
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