American Center for Design records, 1927-1994.

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American Center for Design records, 1927-1994.

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Correspondence, minutes, financial records, membership surveys and directories, event information, sound recordings, and other records of the American Center for Design, founded as the Society of Typographic Arts in 1927, to promote high standards of design, the education of designers, and public awareness of the role of good design, and to sponsor exhibitions, including an annual Design in Chicago Printing Exhibition, and a printing workshop at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Also present are ACD/STA material collected by Susan Jackson Keig, first woman president of the STA in 1955-1956 (when she was Susan Karstrom), including typed reminiscences (from 1989) in which Keig describes STA meetings/field trips in the 1950s-1960s (including one to visit Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957), a 1955 STA news release announcing Susan Karstrom's election as president, seven reel-to-reel audio tapes of STA conferences and discussions (1962-1963), and ACD membership mailings from 1991-1992. Includes phonograph record album, R. Buckminster Fuller thinks out loud, and tape recordings made at STA conferences, including tapes of John Berry and Eric Larabee.

7 sound recordings.1 sound disc : analog.

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Berry, John D., 1950-....

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Larabee, Eric.

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American Center for Design

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