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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
John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Abstract
Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.
Dates:
approximately 1750-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1900-1999
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