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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Alvin Lustig papers

 Collection — Box 1-8
Identifier: CSC-0014
Overview

The collection consists of examples and photographs of Lustig's design work, writings by and about him, and portrait photographs of him.

Dates: 1925-1984
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Bertha E. Butts sewing scrapbook and dress

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArc-0203
Overview

Materials related to Bertha E. Butts, dressmaking student in the Department of Household Arts and Science at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute in 1904. The collection includes a sewing sample scrapbook and dress made for class.

Dates: 1904
Found in: RIT Archives

Blazing New Trails drawings and other material

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006627099]
Identifier: RITArt-0004
Overview

Original drawings for the book Blazing New Trails: The Biography of a Pioneer in Education (1937) by George Wilson Hoke. The collection includes 78 of the drawings used in Hoke's book, which traced the institutional history of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Also included are several book reviews and a brief biographical sketch of Hoke.

Dates: 1937-1939
Found in: RIT Archives

Ceil Smith Thayer collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0112
Overview

The Ceil Thayer Smith collection consists of sketches, drawings, scrapbooks, and correspondence created by the New York based graphic designer. She worked primarily in women's fashion advertisement during the 1920s thru 1940s.

Dates: 1920-1980
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Claude Bragdon sketches

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArt-0050
Overview

Three sketches by Rochester architect Claude Bragdon. Bragdon taught at Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, a precursor to Rochester Institute of Technology, from 1894-1897.

Dates: circa 1890-1910
Found in: RIT Archives

Ed Benguiat collection

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0076
Overview The Ed Benguiat Collection contains original sketches, phototypesetting materials such as photographic prints and negatives, and printed materials relating to the design, production, and promotion of typefaces generated or accumulated during the life and career of type designer, Ed Benguiat. The collection contains objects dating from 1953 to 2001. The collection is organized into two series: I. Graphic Work, and II. Typefaces. The first series contains printed and design work for logos and...
Dates: circa 1953-2001
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Gene and Helen Federico collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0094
Overview The Gene & Helen Federico collection contains work and correspondence from both the husband and wife duo of graphic designers, active from the 1950s to the 1990s. While there are distinctions between work that Gene produced, namely under his advertising firm, and independent ventures by Helen, some material may be attributed to both designers. The bulk of the process work, sketches, print ads, illustrations, research and book mockups were created between circa 1950 and circa 2000. The...
Dates: 1930-2012
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Ken Hiebert collection

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0120
Overview To preserve documents that clarify a progression leading to and ensuing from appointment to start a pioneering program in graphic design at the University of the Arts (then Philadelphia College of Art) in 1966. Key facets of the perception-based and essentially non-verbal graphic design program of the Basel School of Design (then called Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel) were integrated with the liberal arts approach to BFA education at this independent arts college in the U.S. -- From original...
Dates: 2017
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Lester Beall papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0015
Overview

Collection of materials from graphic designer Lester Beall. The collection includes client correspondence, client publications, portfolios, and writings on and by Beall. Awards, speeches, exhibitions, business records are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1911-1984
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Paul Rankin collection of Frans Wildenhain sketchbooks and slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArt-0069
Overview

The Paul Rankin collection of Frans Wildenhain sketchbooks and slides contains four books of sketches done by Mr. Wildenhain in the 1970's, approximately 154 slides of his sculptures, pots, and murals, several books and publications relating to the Bauhaus in Germany, Marguerite Wildenhain, and crafts, some in German.

Dates: circa 1965 - 1985
Found in: RIT Archives