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Commercial art -- United States -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

General Exhibits

 Series
Scope and Contents

Materials pertaining to exhibits that were produced for the general public. These materials include correspondence, schematics of exhibits, brochures, tour guides, news stories and previews of the exhibits.

Included in these exhibits are "The Brain" and "The Cell" which were famous exhibits done by Will Burtin that toured the country's museums. Also included are files concerning the old fashioned Upjohn Drug Store at Disneyland.

Dates: 1887-2001

Hugh J. Moser Graphic Design Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_moser
Abstract

Pamphlets, guides, serials, samples, packets, and catalogs collected by Upjohn Company graphic designer Hugh J. Moser (1925-2009) relating to the field of graphic design / commercial art from the mid to late twentieth century. Materials on budgeting, estimating, creative process, layout, design, illustration, photography, typography, platemaking, paper, ink, printing processes, die cutting, embossing, binding, finishing and specialty printing.

Dates: 1929-1990; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1950-1990; Other: Date acquired: 2010-04-29

Oversize Items

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents

The material in this series consists of the two volumes of the Medical Tribune newspaper, paintings and illustrations of equipment, vinyl records from the Dewolf Music Library used for background music for film, television, and radio, drug leaflets and portfolios, a ledger and the N. B. Keeney and Sons Bean record, labels and sample books, painted transparencies, other miscellaneous oversized materials such as posters and signs, and the Uriah Upjohn medical journal.

Dates: 1875-1986