Printing -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Henry Lewis Bullen papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio-Wing-MS-49
Abstract
Letters, postcards, drafts of essays; all concerning the origin of the American point system invented by Nelson Crocker Hawks, on Hawks' career as an early California type founder, and on such other early California printing industry figures as W.F. Shattuck, Andrew Foreman, William Faulkner, and others.
Dates:
1908-1912