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Huxley House records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0006

Scope and Contents

The ledgers and volumes in the collection begin with the set-up of Huxley House's office and print shop in 1929, and continue through 1960, covering funds spent for type, printing, paper, advertising, payroll, and rent and other administrative expenses; bank reconciliation records; and financial records for client accounts. The ledgers are listed below.

Ledgers

  1. Accounts Payable and Receivable, 1933-1960 (4 volumes)
  2. Cash Books, 1943-1960 (9 volumes)
  3. General Journal, 1938-1945 (1 volume)
  4. Petty Cash, 1937-1960 (7 volumes)
  5. Purchase Books, 1929-1960 (9 volumes)
  6. Sales Books, 1929, 1937-1960 (22 volumes)
  7. Huxley Lino Purchase Book, 1940-1960 (1 volume)
  8. Huxley Lino Cash Book, 1956-1960 (1 volume)

Dates

  • Creation: 1929-1960

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical information on Walter Huxley

Walter Huxley was a typographer and type designer. Born in New York, he studied at and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. He returned to New York to work for the American Type Founders Company before establishing Huxley House. A member of Typographical Union No. 6, and the Advertising Typographers Association of America, Inc., Huxley was 64 when he died at his summer home in Falls Village, Connecticut, on July 31, 1955. Franz C. Hess was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and remained with Huxley House, where he served as treasurer, until his retirement in 1965. He was 79 when he died at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, on March 31, 1975. Sylvan Garnett Goesle, born circa 1898, was a graphic artist.

Historical information on Huxley House

Huxley House was a firm specializing in typography, design, and printing. Founded in 1928, its three principals were Walter Huxley, Franz C. Hess, and, for a short time, S. Garnett Goesle. The company's first office was at 117 West 54th Street in New York City. Huxley House's earliest clients were type foundries, publishers, and designers including Alfred E. Knopf, Bauer Type Foundry, George Bijur, Continental Type Foundry, Country Life magazine, William Edwin Rudge, and Kurt H. Volk. Later clients included the advertising and public relations agencies Alfred J. Silberstein, Fred Wittner Company, Kenyon and Eckhardt, and Al Paul Lefton; designers Lester Beall, Warren Chappell, George Giusti, and Walter Dorwin Teague, among others; and corporations including Brooks Brothers, Corning Glass, Hanes Hoisery, Knoll Associates, and Standard Oil. Huxley House merged with Kurt H. Volk, Inc., on October 16, 1967, to become Volk and Huxley, Inc.

Extent

54 Item(s) (54 volumes)

Language

English

Additional Description

Overview

Financial ledgers of Huxley House from 1929 to 1960. Huxley House specialized in typography, design, and printing. Records include expenditures for type, paper, advertising, payroll, etc.

Arrangement

Chronological within topical ledgers.

Physical Location

Cary stacks, row 10

Processing Information

Finding aid encoded by Amy Vilz, February 2012.

Related Names

Subject

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Huxley House records
Status
Published
Subtitle
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Author
Amy Vilz
Date
20 February 2012
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection Repository

https://www.rit.edu/carycollection
Contact:
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