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TitleThree Advertisements

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDesigner

Creation date1919

Object typeGraphic design

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationWestern Advertising (June 1919), Science, Industry and Business Library, New York Public Library, New York

https://catalog.nypl.org/record=b11902423~S68

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsGraphic artsAdvertising--Periodicals

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7. At the End of the “Mechanical Revolution”

Ellen Mazur Thomson

Description: The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870–1920

The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870–1920

In 1922 the Boston Evening Transcript published a special supplement in conjunction with a Graphic Arts Exposition held in the city. Several articles described the changes in printing technology and the work of printers’ organizations. In addition, W. A. Dwiggins, by then a resident of the Boston area, contributed a column on the state of American graphic design...

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Ellen Mazur Thomson

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 1997 by Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.159-164

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00152.010

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Chapter subject tags:Graphic artsArt and technologyTechnological innovationsPrinting Industry--United StatesDwiggins, W.A. (William Addison), 1880-1956

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