N.L. : a little thank-you book from visitors from Chicago Calligraphy '83 : the making of a handwritten book. 1983.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Wells, James, 1838-1924

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Librarian and printing historian. Born in 1917 in Charleston , W. Va., and educated at Northwestern and Columbia Universities, James Wells served in the Navy and taught English at Columbia and West Virginia before coming to the Newberry in 1951 as Curator of the John M. Wing Foundation for the History of Printing (1951-1984). In 1963, Wells also became Custodian of the Rare Book Room, a position he vacated in 1964 when Lawrence W. Towner appointed him Associate Director,...

Muno, Rose.

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McGraw, Cheryl.

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Cassel-Wronker, Lili, 1924-

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Lili Cassel-Wronker was born May 5, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. She and her family fled the Nazis in 1938, and came to the United States in 1940. She attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Early in her career, Lili Cassel-Wronker worked for Time, Incorporated's art department, as a book jacket designer for World Publishing, and taught calligraphy. She illustrated her first children's book, The Rainbow Mother Goose, in 1947. Throughout her long and prol...

Smith, Patti Doyle.

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Glahn, Myrlin von.

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Wright, Doris B., 1926-

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Doyle, Mary Ellen, 1938-

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Mary Doyle and her husband James came to Austin in 1840 and became leading members of early Austin society. They were devout Catholics who helped support the founding of St. Mary's Cathedral. As a widow in 1872, Mary Doyle sold most of her large estate to Father Edward Sorin for a fraction of its value on the condition that the land be used for "the establishment of a college, school, or other educational institution." She died a year later, cancelling the debt in her will. This property came to...

Gregory, Anne, calligrapher.

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Rosen, Myrna

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Griffin, Mary M.

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Chicago Calligraphy '83 (1983 : Chicago, Ill.)

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Grant, Jolyon.

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Cicale, Annie, 1950-

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Arx, Diane M. von.

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Aubrey, John S.

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