Printing for the modern age

commerce, craft, and culture in the RR Donnelley Archive

Printing for the modern age
Kim Coventry, Kim Coventry
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Printing for the modern age

commerce, craft, and culture in the RR Donnelley Archive

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English
Pages
36

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Table of Contents

Richard Robert Donnelley: Midwestern business pioneer.
The family and the company.
The evolution of a graphic identity: the R R Donnelley Indianhead.
The architecture of printing.
Training craftsman: the R R Donnelley apprentice program.
Craftsmanship by example: fine binding.
Early advances in technology.
Promoting the craft: the Four American Books campaign.
Research and development after World War II.
"Undivided responsibility": R R Donnelley advertising.
Promoting the craft: public exhibitions in the Lakeside Press galleries.
Printer to the modernist movement: "A Century of Progress".
Graphic design in the C. Prentiss Smith papers.
Imaging the craft: photography in the R R Donnelley Archive.
Printer to Chicago.
Printing for the national marketplace.
Mail-order catalogs.
Mass market magazines.
R R Donnelley and World War II.
Defining moments of the modern age

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Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Library of Congress
Z244.6.U5 C694 2006, Z244.6.I3 C694 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
36 p. :
Number of pages
36

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15601216M
ISBN 10
0943056365
ISBN 13
9780943056364
OCLC/WorldCat
71649369
Library Thing
4232217

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