Papers of Arnold Bank, calligrapher and teacher.

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Papers of Arnold Bank, calligrapher and teacher.

Personal papers, correspondence, lecture notes, teaching charts, drawings for commissions, photo stats of calligraphy samples from major collections, rubbings, samples of students' projects, clippings, writing equipment, type specimens, slides. Includes drawings for signs at Carnegie Mellon for Skibo Hall, Warner Hall, Hunt Library, College of Fine Arts, Doherty Hall, Baker Hall, Hamerschlag Hall, Scaife Hall. Correspondents include Warren Chappell, Raymond F. DaBoll, E.A. Lowe, Stanley Morison, Lloyd Reynolds.

37 boxes 20 flat file drawers.

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Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991

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American illustrator, type founder. From the description of Watercolor by Warren Chappell "Longnose the Dwarf" [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870994 From the description of Manuscript books illustrated by Chappell [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870967 From the description of Illustrated letters [manuscript], 1975-1983. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846181 Type desi...

Reynolds, Lloyd J.

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Lloyd J. Reynolds was born in 1902. He was a professor of art at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and a member of the faculty there from 1929 to his retirement in 1969. Hired as an instructor in English and creative writing, then art history, he taught a graphic arts workshop and co-founded the Champoeg Press at the college, studied calligraphy on his own, corresponded with the great calligraphers of the day, and became a well-known and very popular teacher of calligraphy (1949 on) and his broad ...

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

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English typographer, author, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1958. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13048845 British printer, typographer and writer. From the description of Letter, 1939. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78489119 English typographer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Holbrook Jackson, 1923 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613086 ...

DaBoll, Raymond F.

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Chicago and Arkansas calligrapher and designer. Raymond Franklin DaBoll (1892-1982) was born June 19, 1892 near Clyde, New York, he studied at the Rochester Athanaeum and Mechanics Institute (now RIT) and came to Chicago in 1912, where he continued his education at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Art. In Rochester he also studied singing, a hobby he pursued for the rest of his life. In 1915, he started working for Chicago advertising agencies. His...

Bank, Arnold

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American calligrapher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1953 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623241 ...