Illustrated by artist John Averill. The 1937 exhibition was presented by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in cooperation with the Art Directors Club of New York at the Lakeside Press Galleries.
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1929-1930 Christmas and New Year card from the Lakeside Press.
The Lakeside Press was the printing firm of the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, where Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry began his career. Starting as a journeyman compositor and production operator, Cherry eventually worked as a designer under William A. Kittredge.
1956 advertisement for Artype transparent, self-adhering acetate sheets featuring hand-lettered alphabets (”actual type faces […] selected by master typographers and designers”), numbers, reference letters, arrows, symbols, borders, and more in a range of styles and sizes.
1955 advertisement for Furst-McNess Company’s Beauty-Queen cosmetics. “Rich oils, feather-soft powders, wonderfully delicate fragrance … all the finest possible compounds” formulated and processed in their very own “sunlight laboratories” by “experienced chemists”. Sold only by personal consultants. The featured model seems very satisfied with her tub of “Hormone Cream”.
It’s not simply a farm. It’s not exactly a zoo. It’s both, and that little girl gets it.
Hawthorn-Mellody Farms was located in Libertyville, Illinois and ran from the early 1900s through 1970 (see Living History of Illinois and Chicago). In 1937, John S. Cuneo Sr. bought the farm and the Cuneo Mansion from Samuel Insull (see Cuneo Museum - Wikipedia).
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Cuneo was also the founder of the Cuneo Press, where influential Chicago designer and typographer Burton Cherry was Director of Design and Typography.
Prang Christmas Card 1880–90s Chromolithograph (publisher’s proof) Publisher: L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.) The New York Public Library, Print Collection