Inventory of the Douglas C. McMurtrie papers, 1850-1944, bulk 1925-1944

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Inventory of the Douglas C. McMurtrie papers, 1850-1944, bulk 1925-1944

1850-1944

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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 Casal’s The Stone Wall.

78.0 linear feet (132 boxes, 8 oversize boxes, and 23 index card file boxes) (132 boxes, 8 oversize boxes, and 23 index card file boxes)

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Josephson, Aksel Gustav Salomon, 1860-1944

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Aksel Gustav Salomon Josephson was born in Uppsala, Sweden on October 2, 1860 to Hilda Augusta Schram and the composer Jacob Axel Josephson. He acquired vast bibliographical knowledge as a bookseller, having established his store in Uppsala in 1885. On September 18, 1893, Josephson immigrated to the United States and enrolled at the New York State Library School at Albany but withdrew before completing the program. He did bibliographic work for Publisher's Weekly before, in 1894, becoming a cata...