J. Carl Hertzog papers, 1901-1985.

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J. Carl Hertzog papers, 1901-1985.

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Personal papers includes Hertzog's correspondence with his mother and step family. Other items include awards, financial papers, photographs, genealogical information, and clippings. Professional activities contains materials describing the Hertzog and Resler Printing Co., an early scrapbook, and materials about the Texas Western Press and Texas Western College. General correspondence contains both personal and business correspondence documenting Hertzog's relations with people in the book trades, as well as others including Al Lowman, Stanley Marcus, and C.L. Sonnichsen. Projects include correspondence, proofs, illustrations, and summary notebooks. "The King Ranch" is the most thoroughly documented project in the series. Ephemera consists of materials created by Hertzog and others, including letterhead, greeting cards, broadsides, press plates, and type specimens. Subject files contain materials relating to some of Hertzog's colleagues including pamphlets, catalogs, clippings, sketches, and manuscripts. Colleagues include Tom Lea, José Cisneros, J. Evetts Haley, and Frank Dobie.

50 linear ft.

University of Texas at El Paso

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SNAC Resource ID: 7380174

University of Texas at El Paso

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Cisneros, José, 1910-2009

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Hertzog, Carl 1902-1984

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Carl Hertzog was founder and Director of the Texas Western Press and noted typographer and book designer. From the description of Henry Ingram collection of Carl Hertzog material. 1964-1981. (Texas Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 15716952 Book designer, typographer, and printer. Born in 1902 as Jean Carl Hertzog in Lyons, France. Hertzog came to El Paso, Texas in 1923 to work for W.S. McMath & Co. In 1934, he started his own print shop,...

Texas Western Press.

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Carl Hertzog founded the Texas Western Press in 1952. Carl Hertzog, a well known printer and book designer, was hired to teach some couses at the Texas School of Mines and persuaded president Wilson Elkins to let him set up a printing laboratory which developed into a scholarly press. In 1949 the College of Mines name was changed to Texas Western College and the press took that name as well. The first book under the Texas Western Press imprint in 1952 was The Spanish heritage of the Southwest by...

Resler, Dale, 1899-1976

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Sonnichsen, C. L. (Charles Leland), 1901-1991

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Biographical note: Historian and author; Sonnichsen was a professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso for over forty years. He wrote or edited 34 books and numerous articles during his career including "Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocker" in 1974, and "Tucson the Life and Times of An American City," in 1987. From the description of Sonnichsen research collection, 1972-1991. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 50710487 ...

Lowman, Al

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Haley, J. Evetts (James Evetts), 1901-1995

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Born July 5, 1901. Raised in Midland, Texas. Worked his family's ranch along the Pecos River. Graduated West Texas State University. Fired from University of Texas in 1936 for denouncing President Roosevelt. Director of Institute of Americanism at Texas Technological College. Known for his books and articles on Southwestern frontier. Author of A Texan Look at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power (1964). From the description of Letter, 1954. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record i...

Press of Carl Hertzog

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University of Texas at El Paso

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Fugate, Francis L., 1915-1992

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Author, editor, and UTEP English professor. Born July 15, 1915, in Ottumawa, Iowa, he was the son of James LeRoy and Carrie Leona (Bowie) Fugate. He received his BA and BJ from the University of Missouri in 1939. He attended graduate school at the University of Chicago from 1943-1944 and the University of Oklahoma from 1947-1949. He worked as an advertising manager in Florida and Oklahoma before coming to El Paso to teach English at Texas Western College (now the Univers...

Hertzog and Resler Printing Company.

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Marcus, Stanley, 1905-

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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

Lea, Tom, 1907-2001

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American artist and writer. From the description of Papers, 1889-1974 (bulk 1937-1974). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648373 Tom Lea, artist and writer, was born in El Paso, Texas on July 11, 1907. After displaying a natural aptitude for painting and drawing as a child, Lea received formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1924 to 1926 and as apprentice and assistant to the Chic...