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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

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

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

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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