Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991.

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Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991.

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The Joseph Blumenthal Papers contain personal and professional correspondence, research files, photographs, and personal papers documenting the life and career of the American printer, printing historian, and type designer Joseph Blumenthal, and his wife Ann White Blumenthal. Included are personal correspondence with friends and colleagues in America and Europe, letters regarding his Emerson typeface, research files on the book designer Bruce Rogers, including copies of letters Rogers wrote to Henry Bullen, Crosby Gaige, Porter Garnett, George Macy, Carl Rollins, among others, as well as Blumenthal's correspondence with his publisher W. Thomas Taylor. Personal papers include portraits of the Blumenthals made by noted photographers, their passports and visa, and other records. While the material here does cover some aspects of Blumenthal's professional activities, there are no business or financial records present for the Spiral Press.

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Johnson, Herbert H. (Herbert Harrison)

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

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Carter, Sebastian 1941-

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Macy, George

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Founder of the Limited Editions Club and the Heritage Press. From the description of George Macy papers, 1916-1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606938314 Detroit, Michigan businessman. From the description of George F. Macy letter, 1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423562 Epithet: Director of the Limited Editions Club British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descr...

Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990

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Heckscher, August, 1913-1997

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Nacht, Robert.

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Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960

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Rollins was a book designer long associated with the Yale University Press (1918-1948). From the description of [Letters] 1935 / Carl P. Rollins. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 352927040 Carl Purington Rollins was born in 1880 in West Newbury, Massachussets. He attended Harvard University from 1897-1900, and worked at Heintzemann Press in Boston before joining New Clairvaux, a rural Utopian community, in Montague, Massachusetts,in 1903. Rollins taught prin...

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006

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Corbin, Harold, 1914-

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Turner, Hermine, 1880-1976.

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