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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. [The works of Edgar Allan Poe].

Title: [The works of Edgar Allan Poe].

Materials intended to form the basis for a new edition of Poe's works, to be issued by Crowell, based on the Crowell ed. of 1902 and the Century ed. of 1909.

ArchivalResource: 12 v., bound : ill. ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8684430 View

A.H. Roffe & Co. Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1877-1962.

Title: Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1877-1962.

Trade catalogs, advertisements of books, periodicals, journals and other ephemera relating to the selling of books.

ArchivalResource: 110 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122287807 View

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records, 1931-1955

Title: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records 1931-1955

The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, American publishers of popular periodicals and educational and technical manuals, was incorporated in 1920 as the Crowell Publishing Company. The name was changed to Crowell-Collier in 1939, and to Crowell, Collier and Macmillan, Inc. in 1965. The firm published American Magazine, Collier's Magazine, The Country Home, Woman's Home Companion, and National Weekly. Collection consists of correspondence, readers' reports, typescripts, proofs, memoranda, and photographs relating to the publishing activities of Crowell-Collier. Records are mainly correspondence, 1931-1950, of the editors of the magazines published by the firm, with the bulk concerning Collier's and Woman's Home Companion. Editors' correspondence with authors, literary agents, photographers, and cartoonists reflects the changes in editorial policy and shifts in popular taste during the period between the early thirties and the mid-fifties. Collection also includes inter-office correspondence, 1933, 1946; readers' reports, 1933; edited authors' typescripts and editors' proofs of articles, short stories, and serialized novels published in Collier's from 1935 through 1955, with some correspondence and editorial memoranda; and a few photographs.

ArchivalResource: 806 linear feet (808 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/703 View

Pipes, Jeanette Botkin. Papers, 1917-1929.

Title: Papers, 1917-1929.

Correspondence, bank checks, mortgage information, tax records, insurance policies, greeting cards, materials from Crowell Publishing Company, Curtis Publishing Co., International Correspondence Schools, and Girls Clubs of America (for whom Pipes sold magazines), documents of Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office, Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co., and Comanche County Treasurer's Office, book entitled Privateers of '76 by Ralph D. Paine (1923), and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70975570 View

Crowell Publishing Company. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1906-1929.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1906-1929.

Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from the executive offices of Crowell Publishing Company.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (7 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155897873 View

Life Magazine, Inc. (New York, N.Y.). Life Magazine records, 1892-1936, bulk (1920-1936).

Title: Life Magazine records, 1892-1936, bulk (1920-1936).

Collection consists of the records of Life Magazine, Inc. documenting all aspects of its operation and including correspondence, circulation, art and literary department records, minutes, financial records, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet (30 boxes and 67 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122626935 View

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records, 1931-1955.

Title: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records, 1931-1955.

Collection consists of correspondence, readers' reports, typescripts, proofs, memoranda, and photographs relating to the publishing activities of Crowell-Collier.

ArchivalResource: 806 linear feet (808 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122431486 View

Beall, Lester, 1903-1969. Lester Beall papers, 1911-1984 (inclusive), 1933-1969 (bulk)

Title: Lester Beall papers, 1911-1984 (inclusive), 1933-1969 (bulk)

The papers consist of extensive client project files and documentation (sketches, mechanicals, models, printed samples, package designs, photographs, and posters), business and professional correspondence, financial records, publications, and personal papers. Among Beall's specialties were corporate identity campaigns and style manuals, and he created logos and trademarks for prominent American companies including Caterpillar Tractor, International Paper, Martin Marietta, Merrill Lynch, and Rohm and Haas, as well as pharmaceutical advertising and periodicals for the Upjohn Company. Some of his most notable designs were a series of posters designed in the 1930s for the United States government's Rural Electrification Administration. A long-time member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club of New York, and the Society of Typographic Arts, Beall compiled scrapbooks and portfolios of his work and the publicity it garnered; his designs and projects were exhibited to acclaim throughout his career, and his homes and studios in New York and Connecticut were photographed by Philippe Halsman, André Kertész, and Arnold Newman, among others.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (111 boxes) + 15 notebooks + 27 posters

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/652961830 View

Life Magazine records, 1892-1936, 1920-1936

Title: Life Magazine records 1892-1936 1920-1936

Life Magazine, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1883 by John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918). Published until October 1936, it was a popular magazine of satire, criticism, reviews, and humor which relied heavily on cartoons, sketches, illustrations, and anecdotal material. In November of 1936 a new magazine under the same title was published by Time, Inc. Collection consists of the records of Life Magazine, Inc. documenting all aspects of its operation and including correspondence, circulation, art and literary department records, minutes, financial records, and printed matter. Correspondence of secretary/treasurer, 1924-1936, is with advertisers, publishers, distributors, printers, illustrators, and cartoonists. Permissions correspondence, 1932-1936, concerns requests by organizations and persons to reprint copyrighted materials. Contracts and agreements series, 1896-1936, reflects the purchase and sale of artistic and literary properties, copyright matters and foreign reproduction rights. Circulation department series consists of audit reports of circulation statistics and records of issues returned. Art department records include scrapbooks of cartoons and process books, 1908-1936, with information about plate manufacture and design. Literary department series contains manuscripts, typescripts of poems, articles and humorous materials accepted by Life and records of manuscripts submitted to the magazine from 1911 to 1936. Also, minutes, 1892-1936, of the board of directors and stockholders; financial records, 1892-1936, including vouchers, journals and other accounts; and printed matter such as issues of Life and books containing art work published in the magazine.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet (30 boxes and 67 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1758 View

Consumers' Research, Inc. Consumerism general files--consumer organizations, 1927-1980.

Title: Consumerism general files--consumer organizations, 1927-1980.

The records track consumer, business, and political activities of organizations or types of organizations that Consumers' Research considered protectors of consumer interests and organizations that Consumers' Research considered less-than-legitimate because of alleged political or business associations. The records consist of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 17 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122429066 View