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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
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
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
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
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