John O.C. McCrillis papers, 1954-1979.

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John O.C. McCrillis papers, 1954-1979.

Personal and professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), articles, drawings, sketches, calligraphy, and samples of McCrillis' work, including exhibition catalogs and pamphlets.

ca. 2 ft. (ca. 600 items).

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McCrillis, John O. C.

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Calligrapher and graphic artist; head of book design dept., Yale University Press. From the description of John O.C. McCrillis papers, 1954-1979. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 430492567 John O. C. McCrillis studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1930s and was one of the first students in the Graphic Design program at the Yale School of Art. After receiving an MFA from Yale in 1952, McCrillis took a position as a typographer w...

Yale University press

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See "A Brief History of Yale University Press" by Robert Pranzatelli, adapted from A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes, available at <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/about.asp>. From the guide to the Yale University Press records, 1919-1964, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) I. THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY From its founding in 1908 by George Parmly Day, Yale University Press sought to acquire and publish important works of scholarship, issuin...