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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

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

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

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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

Raymond E. Shank papers

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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

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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Names
DaBoll, Raymond F. 2
Hayes, James, 1907-1993 2
Society of Typographic Arts (Chicago, Ill.) 2
27 Chicago Designers (Association) 1
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
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Allen, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1875-1953 1
American Bible Society 1
American Dental Association 1
American imprints inventory 1
Art Institute of Chicago. School 1
Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000 1
Bond Wheelwright Co. 1
Borja, Robert 1
Candy Manufacturing Co. 1
Carpenter, Frederick V. 1
Casal, Mary 1
Caterpillar Tractor Company 1
Caxton Club 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Chicago Normal School 1
Condé Nast Press 1
Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940 1
Covici, Friede Inc. 1
Covici, Pascal, 1885-1964 1
Cuneo Press 1
Design and Production Services Company 1
Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947 1
Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956 1
Ebbage, Geoffrey 1
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 1
Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981 1
Eyncourt Press 1
Fairbank, Alfred J. 1
Forgue, Norman W. 1
Goetz, John B., 1920-2006 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Gourdie, Tom 1
Harper & Row, Publishers 1
Higdon, Hal 1
Historical Records Survey (U.S.) 1
Hornby, Anna 1
International Association of Printing House Craftsmen 1
Jacobs, Elmer, 1900- 1
John Morrell & Co. 1
Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944 1
Katz, Samuel 1
Kittredge, William A. (William Albion), 1891-1945 1
Ludlow Typograph Co. 1
McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944 1
Middleton, R. Hunter (Robert Hunter), 1898-1985 1
Newton, Ethyl McKeough 1
Newton, Maybelle F. Gile 1
Newton, William Edward, 1914-1994 1
Nichols, Dale, 1904-1995 1
Pascal Covici (Firm) 1
Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art 1
Phoenix Metal Cap Company 1
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Replogle Globes 1
Ruppel, Aloys, 1882-1977 1
Scott, Susan 1
Shank, Raymond E. 1
Sprunger, Leslie 1
Summy-Birchard Music (Firm) 1
Swensen, Howard 1
Thompson, Paula 1
Tribune Company 1
Underwood, Muriel 1
University of Chicago. Press 1
Wexford Press 1
Wheelwright, Thea 1
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