Alphabet -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charlemagne and the Monastic Scribes, 800 AD, 1966-1971
Item — Painting 3
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
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
The Roman Alphabet, 509 BCE, 1966-1971
Item — Painting 2
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