MsC
83
Manuscript Register
THE
PAPERS OF THE LINOGRAPH CORPORATION, DAVENPORT, IOWA
Collection Dates:
.25 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
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e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: June 2002
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The factory of the Linograph
Company at Front and Scott Streets in Davenport, Iowa. |
Acquisition Note: Materials in this collection were received from Charles Dunham, Deep River, Iowa, September 5, 1969, from Mrs. Robert Swaney, Dixon, Illinois, September 4, 1970, from Jim Moyer in 2005, and from Jim Daggs in 2009.
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and Restrictions:
Photographs: Box 1
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History
The Linograph was developed
by Hans Petersen (1872 -- 1924). Born in Denmark, Petersen emigrated with his parents at the age of ten and by the time he was twelve began working as a compositor in Scandinavian printing shops in the Minneapolis area. Trained on the Linotype, he developed ideas for a simpler and more efficient typecaster which, with two brothers, he developed into the Linograph Corporation, incorporated in Minneapolis in 1911 and moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1912. The Linograph
Corporation was bought by Intertype in January of 1944. (Source: Eckman, James. The Heritage of the Printer, pp. 31 -- 35.)
Scope
and Contents
Inventory
Instructions for Linograph Operators
Price List: Linograph Parts and Supplies: Models 1 and 3
Linograph Specimen Book of Type Faces and Borders
Simplicity That Reduces Typesetting Costs. Linograph Models 1 and 3
Catalogue of Linograph Parts and Supplies, Models 1 and 3
Catalogue, 1916. Gift of James Moyer.
Simplicity That Reduces Typesetting Costs. Linograph Models 1 and 3
The Linograph "50"
Wingéd Words
Le Penseur qui a transformé le travail en un jeu
The Story of the Linograph
The Slug (issues for January and August 1923) (house organ of Linograph Company)
"Hans Petersen and His Linograph Machine," by Dr. James Eckman (clipping from Printing Impressions, April 1961)
Business card of Hans Petersen
Folder describing Model 12 Linograph
Letter from Dr. James Eckman, Rochester, Minnesota, to Mrs. Robert C. Swaney, January 27, 1961
Letter from Dr.
James Eckman, Rochester, Minnesota, to Mrs. Robert C. Swaney, April 5, 1961
Gift of Jim Daggs
Copies of two letters from the Linograph corporation
Photograph taken in 1974 at the Deep River, Iowa, Record office of a Model 5 Linograph. In the background is a Linotype Comet. Color photocopy
Color photocopy of an article from 1919 in the print shop where The Maywood Eagle-Reporter was printed.
Photocopies of advertisements for the Linograph Corporation that appeared in trade journals. Approximately 30 pages
Reproductions of two Linograph catalogs, circa 1920. Produced by Jim Daggs of the Ackley Publishing Company, Inc., Ackley, Iowa
CD containing images of all the above