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Gutenberg, Johann

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1397?-1468 -- Portraits

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Erich Wronker collection of printing medals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0002
Overview

Collection of medals related to the history of printing, publishing, and collecting books or newspapers, as collected by publisher Erich Wronker. Also includes notes, photographs, correspondence, and publications.

Dates: 1243-2001

Graphic Communications Through the Ages: Kimberly-Clark paintings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0018
Overview

The collection consists of 24 paintings illustrating the history methods for illustrating the written word developed between 950 B.C. and the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1966-1971

Johann Gutenberg and Movable Type, 1455, 1966-1971

 Item — Painting 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: "Graphic Communications Through the Ages" commemorates significant milestones in the history of communications technologies: the development of paper and character forms, typography design, and printing. The paintings were commissioned in 1966 by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, who employed three internationally-known historical illustrators to produce the series: Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish, Jr.(1930-1992)....
Dates: 1966-1971

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Type
Collection 2
Archival Record 1
 
Subject
Graphic arts -- History 2
Newspaper publishing -- History 2
Printing -- History 2
Printing presses in art 2
Publishers and publishing -- History 2