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School of Printing Management Records

School of Printing Management Records, (1913- 1979 [1928-1963])
Carnegie Mellon University Archives, Administrative Collection

Extent
Four boxes, (Boxes 1-4); 4 linear feet, and one partial Oversize box

Records History
The School of Printing Management was established at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1913 and phased out in 1963. Over this time span, the School went through a number of name changes and College/Division affiliations. The Department of Printing Management, originally designated as the Department of Printing, was established in 1913. The Department was under the auspices of the College of Industries from 1913 to 1935 when the College of Industries was merged with the College of Engineering and Science. The College of Engineering and Science administered the Department until 1948. In 1948 administration of the printing management program was transferred to the Division of Humanistic and Social Studies and renamed the Department of Printing Administration, an arrangement that continued until 1953. From 1953 to 1963, the Department of Printing Administration was its own administrative unit under the title School of Printing Management. In 1963, the School of Printing Management completed its phase out.

Education in printing and printing management continued at Carnegie Mellon University through a combination of courses; design and printing courses from the Department of Graphic Arts of the College of Fine Arts and management courses from the Department of Industrial Management.

In 1977, the Graphics Communications Management program was reestablished in the Graduate School of Industrial Management, offering a combination of courses in graphics and industrial management.

Scope and Content Note
The School of Printing Management Records are housed in four archival boxes and one partial oversize box and are arranged in five series. The series designated are Administration, Alumni Relations, Laboratory Press, New Laboratory Press, and Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Press Publications. The records include annual reports, meeting minutes, advertising and declaratory artifacts (brochures, programs, broadsides), press specimens, works by faculty (writings, specimens), and press publications. The records are primarily advertising and declaratory artifacts and press specimens. The advertising artifacts relate to the School, its programs and courses, the benefits of the program, and related lectures and exhibits. The press specimens include the work of Faculty, such as Porter Garnett and Jack Stauffacher, student group projects and individual student works. Also prominent are copies of CIT Press publications that include texts for use both within and outside of the School, various student projects, other specimens and three serials, Techbound, Plaid Proofs, and "The Plaid Devil." The series on Alumni Relations is composed of notifications, programs, and schedules for each year's Printing Management Seminar and Alumni Reunion and an Alumni Directory. Other items of note are publications by faculty, such as Homer E. Sterling and Glen U. Cleeton. There is little on the actual administration of the School except for the Annual Reports and College Council Minutes.

There is overlap in many of the series and sub-series due to students and faculty being involved in many aspects of the School. One of the main sites of overlap is in the Graphic Arts sub-series of the Administration series. Included under Graphic Arts are the advertising artifacts for the program and some faculty publications. Another area of overlap comes into play with publications by faculty. The arrangement of the publications is by how the work is most related to the School of Printing Management. Publications by the CIT Press, regardless of author, are located in the CIT Press Publications series. If the work was by a faculty member but published in another source, the publication is under the author's name in the Faculty sub-series of Administration.

Series I: Administration
The Administration series is made up of those records relating to the School of Printing Management as a whole. It includes the Annual Reports (1934-36, 1953-60, 1962-63), College Council Minutes (1956-62), and departmental histories for the first twenty-five years of the School. A large portion of the series relates to various programs or tracts of study offered by the School including Graphic Arts and Management Training for Junior Executives. Two sub-series refer to the faculty and students of the School. The faculty section is primarily publications by faculty members and the student section is made up of student projects that did not result in a press specimen and a summer yearbook. Another large portion of the Administration series are advertising and declaratory artifacts related to the School as a whole, specific courses offered, and related exhibits and lectures. They include brochures, pamphlets, broadsides, programs, and exhibit catalogs. Another sub-series is a serial called "Jobs Carnegie Printers Hold" which was put out every two to three years between 1948 and 1960.

Series II: Alumni Relations
The alumni of the School of Printing Management remained connected to the School through an annual Printing Management Seminar that included an Alumni Reunion. The material in Series II includes an Alumni Directory (1965) and a pamphlet of letters from alumni working abroad. The Series is primarily composed of the materials for the Printing Management Seminar and Alumni Reunion, including programs, schedules, announcements and seminar proceedings. There is material for seminar/reunions for all years between 1934 and 1970, except 1935-37, 1940, 1943-47, 1951, and 1954.

Series III: Laboratory Press
The Laboratory Press operated throughout the early years of the School and was discontinued in 1935. The Faculty advisor for the Laboratory Press was Porter Garnett. The Laboratory Press series includes various specimens by Porter Garnett before coming to CIT and specimens printed on the Laboratory Press. The Porter Garnett sub-series also includes two photographs of Garnett and students at the Laboratory Press and works and an exhibit about Garnett. The other half of the Laboratory Press Series are student specimens printed on the Laboratory Press. Works from the Laboratory Press in the School of Printing Management Records date between 1913 and 1963.

Series IV: New Laboratory Press
Series IV is composed of three sub-series, About the Press, Jack Stauffacher, and student specimens. The New Laboratory Press was established in 1960 in the Department of Graphic Arts in the College of Fine Arts. The first sub-series includes the press policies and a listing of works printed on the press. Jack Stauffacher was the Faculty Advisor for the New Laboratory Press and, like Porter Garnett, printed on the New Laboratory Press. His specimens are included in the second sub-series. The third sub-series encompasses the student specimens printed on the New Laboratory Press. Works from the New Laboratory Press in the School of Printing Management Records date between 1960 and 1963.

Series V: CIT (Carnegie Institute of Technology) Press Publications
Series V is arranged in six sub-series. The first, Student Projects, includes student works that were not designated as being Laboratory Press or New Laboratory Press publications. Some specimens may be student projects printed for the School. The second sub-series is Texts. These are publications that from their title and structure appear to be texts on printing, printing education and printing management. Some were written by School of Printing Management faculty. The third series are Specimens. This is a catchall category for fine press pieces that are not clearly defined as student projects or the work of the Laboratory or New Laboratory Press. The last three sub-series are serials published by CIT Press. They include Plaid Proofs with issues from February 1937 to Winter 1963, Techbound with issues for 1923-24, 1925, 1928, and 1929, and a "The Plaid Devil" issue from Winter 1979.

Provenance
The provenance is unknown at this time (3/13/02).

Restrictions
None

Separations
Five folders of oversize material have been separated from the main body of records. The separated items are advertising posters. The five folders are listed on the container list in their proper arrangement; instead of a FF (file folder) number they have a OvSz (oversize) number designation. The School of Printing Management Records oversize folders share a box with the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College oversize materials.

Processor
Hillary Bober

Container List: School of Printing Management Records

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I. Administration

FF1 1. 1934-35
FF2 2. 1935-36
FF3 3. 1953-54
FF4 4. 1954-55
FF5 5. 1955-56
FF6 6. 1956-57
FF7 7. 1958-59
FF8 8. 1959-60
FF9 9. 1962-63

B. College Council Minutes

FF10 1. 1956-57
FF11 2. 1957-58
FF12 3. 1958-59
FF13 4. 1959-60
FF14 5. 1960-61
FF15 6. 1961-62

C. Departmental Histories

FF16 1. "The First Twenty-five Years of College Education in Printing 1913-1938"
FF17 2. "Signing of Agreement with Carnegie Tech Announced" Typothetae Bulletin, 1927 School of Printing Management, page 5
FF18 3. Newspaper clippings, (1938, 1955)

FF19 1. Program Announcement (1960)
2. Declaratory and Advertising Artifacts

FF20 a. Brochures FF21
b. "Education for Leadership in the Graphic Arts" (1956) (4)
FF22 c. "College Training in the Graphic Arts"
FF23 d. "Career Opportunities in Graphic Communications- Carnegie Tech (3)
FF24 e. "Management and Design Career Opportunities in Graphic Communications at Carnegie-Mellon University"

3. "Management in the Graphic Arts" Conference Proceedings

FF25 a. 1952 (3)
FF26 b. 1953 (2)
FF27 c. 1956
FF28 d. 1957

4. Graphic Arts Education

FF29 a. Winter 1943 (3)
FF30 b. Summer 1943
FF31 c. Spring 1956 (2)

FF32 5. Sources of Information in the Graphic Arts, George J. Mills, 1951 (3)
FF33 6. Management Policy in the Graphic Arts, Cleeton and Greenfield, 1955
FF34 7. "Education of Graphic Arts Managers" Kenneth Scheid, 1961
FF35 8. "Professional Education in the Graphic Arts" Glen U. Cleeton
FF36 9. Graphic Communications Management- brochures, 1977
OvSz1 10. "Executive Career Opportunities in Graphic Communications- Poster (4)

FF37 E. "Management Training for Junior executives in Printing and Lithography" 1957
F. Faculty

1. Homer E. Sterling

FF38 a. "Pictorial Reproductions in Newspapers" 1949
FF39 b. "Plates"
FF40 c. 1001 Layout scrapbook

FF41 a. "The New Approach to Employee Discipline" American Management Association Personnel Vol. 16, No. 4, 1940
FF42 b. Professional Education in the Graphic Arts" Archives for Printing, Paper and Kindred Trades 1956

FF43 1. "Summer Printers" 1948, 1949
FF44 2. Student workbook 1950's
3. Layouts

FF45 a. "The Crane" 1928
FF46 b. "Evans-Winter-Hebb" 1928
FF47 c. "Power Plant Equipment" 1931
FF48 d. "The Pastoral Love of Daphnis and Chloe" Longus 1934

FF49 4. Course completion certificates

H. Advertising Artifacts

FF50 a. Brochures
FF51 b. "The New Department of Printing" 1914
FF52 c. Printing Administration circa 1950 (2)
FF53 d. "Printing Management at Carnegie" (3)
FF54 e. "Junior Executive Training in Printing"

FF55 a. Summer printing
FF56 b. School Publication Design

OvSz2 a. 50 Books of the Year 1932 [and] 50 Books of the Year 1940
FF57 b. Young Book Designers 1951- program
FF58 c. Textbooks Exhibition 1954- program
FF59 d. Herman Zapf 1960
OvSz3 e. Filmgraphic- Series 2
OvSz4 f. Filmgraphic- Series 3 1962-63 (2)

OvSz5 a. "The Influence of Fine Printing" W. Arthur Cole, 1928
FF60 b. "The Printer and the Publisher as Craftsmen" Earl Schenck Miers, 1946
FF61 c. "In the Interests of School Publication Design" Homer E. Sterling

FF62 5. Miscellaneous

I. "Jobs Carnegie Printers Hold"

FF63 1. 1948-49
FF64 2. 1951
FF65 3. 1953 (2)
FF66 4. 1954
FF67 5. 1957 (3)
FF68 6. 1960 (2)

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II. Alumni Relations

FF69 A. Alumni Directory 1965
FF70 B. Alumni Letters pamphlet
C. Printing Management Seminar and Alumni Reunion

FF71 1. 1934
FF72 2. 1938
FF73 3. 1939
FF74 4. 1941
FF75 5. 1942
FF76 6. 1948
FF77 7. 1949
FF78 8. 1950
FF79 9. 1952
FF80 10. 1953
FF81 11. 1955
FF82 12. 1956
FF83 13. 1958
FF84 14. 1959
FF85 15. 1960
FF86 16. 1961
FF87 17. 1962
FF88 18. 1963
FF89 19. 1964
FF90 20. 1965
FF91 21. 1965 Seminar Proceedings
FF92 22. 1966
FF93 23. 1967
FF94 24. 1968
FF95 25. 1969
FF96 26. 1970

III. Laboratory Press

FF97 1. San Francisco One Hundred Years Ago and Today Porter Garnett, 1913
FF98 2. "Memorial Resolutions" Typography by Garnett, 1920
FF99 3. "Three Devices Designed by Porter Garnett for the Laboratory Press" 1923
FF100 4. "Printing as Architecture" Marius Audin, 1926 (29)
5. A Documentary Account of the Beginnings of the Laboratory Press Carnegie Institute of Technology Porter Garnett, 1927 (3)
FF101 6. That Endeth Never Hildegarde Flanner, 1926
FF102 7. "A Sailor's Carol" 1928
FF103 8. 50-50: A Garland for Edna September 14, 1930
FF104 9. What Is It? An Aesthetic Investigation Porter Garnett, 1931 (3)
FF105 10. "The Hand Press" Porter Garnett, 1933
FF106 11. "The Fine Book Symposium" 1934
FF107 12. "A Conspectus of Type Design" Porter Garnett, 1935
FF108 13. A Laboratory Press Anthology (unfinished) Porter Garnett, 1935
FF109 14. "PG The Green Knight (1871-1951) in Memory of Porter Garnett" Clarence David Greenwood, 1951
FF110 15. "Porter Garnett and the Laboratory Press: A Few Philosophical Notes" Wilder Bentley
FF111 16. Photographs
FF112 17. Porter Garnett Collection- Hunt Library
FF113 18. "The Spirit of Porter Garnett" Jack Stauffacher Carnegie Alumnus Feb. 1960
FF114 19. Exhibit: "Porter Garnett and the Laboratory Press" 1963- flyers
FF115 20. Exhibit: "Porter Garnett and the Laboratory Press" 1963- Catalog

B. Student Specimens

FF116 1. "The Outlook for Typography" Daniel Berkeley Updike, 1925
FF117 2. "The Oop Unit" Professor P.G., 1927
FF118 3. "An Achievement of the First Importance" Harry Lyman Koopman, 1928
FF119 4. "Two Passages from the Journal of Henry Marston" 1929
FF120 5. "A Prayer for Fools" Giovanni Papini, 1929
FF121 6. "What the L Books of 1928 Looked Like to Carl Purrington Rollins" 1929
FF122 7. "The Outlook for Typology" D. B. Updike, 1929
FF123 8. "Tsang-Lang Discourse on Poetry" Yen Yu, 1929
FF124 9. "The Ideal Book" Paul Valery, 1930
FF125 10. "Selections from Poe's Marginalia" 1930
FF126 11. "The Tenth Anniversary of the Laboratory Press" 1933

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IV. New Laboratory Press

FF127 1. Advisory Committee and Press Policy Paper
FF128 2. "Early and Recent Works from the NLP"

FF129 1. "Acceptance Speech" Albert Camus, 1957
FF130 2. Birth Announcement, 1962
FF131 3. "Adanson Bicentennial Symposium" 1963
FF132 4. Resignation Announcement, 1963

C. Student Specimens

FF133 1. "Matisse: drawing, color, and the importance of discipline" (letter) Henri Matisse, 1954
FF134 2. "Types of the Chanter Press" 1960 (2)
FF135 3. "Contemporary Typology" Jan Tschichold, 1961
FF136 4. "Create Dangerously" (lecture) Albert Camus, 1963
FF137 5. "The Great Wonderful Wheel" Beekman W. Cottrell, 1963 (3)
FF138 6. "To Face the Real Crisis: Man Himself" Archibald MacLeish, 1963
FF139 7. Announcements

V. CIT (Carnegie Institute of Technology) Press Publications

FF140 1. "The Graphica Inspection Tour" 1922 (2)
FF141 2. "Paper" William Bond Wheelwright, 1938
FF142 3. "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Type and Typography" Frederick W. Goudy, 1940 (2)
FF143 4. "Lines & Faces" 1940 (2)
FF144 5. "Printing Equipment and Supplies Index" 1941
FF145 6. "The Task of Management" Harry A. Hopf, 1941
FF146 7. "Executive Functions" Glen U. Cleeton, 1943
FF147 8. "The Founding of Printing at Carnegie" Harry L. Gage, 1949
FF148 9. "The Ghost and Hans Van Duin" Burl Ives, 1956
FF149 10. "The Power of Mystery" Georges Braque, 1960

FF150 1. College Training in Printing (2)
FF151 2. "Advertising Criteria" W. B. Gress and H. E. Sterling, 1929 (3)
FF152 3. Printer's Chemistry 1930
FF153 4. "Type Alphabets for Layout Lettering" Homer E. Sterling, 1932
5. Behind the Type: The Life Story of Frederic W. Goudy Bernard Lewis, 1941 (8)
FF154 6. "Printing Plant Management: Equipment Information" 1950 (2)
7. Printing Types and How to Use Them Stanley Hlasta, 1950
8. Type in the CIT Press

FF155 1. "Friendship" Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1927
FF156 2. "The Influence of Fine Printing" W. Arthur Cole, 1928
FF157 3. "The Spirit of Christmas" Anonymous, 1928
FF158 4. "How Will It Print?" 1936
FF159 5. "Garden of Gold" Samuel Harden Church, 1937
FF160 6. "Development and Planning of American Cities" Harland Bartholomew, 1950 (2)
FF161 7. "Casey at the Bat" Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1956
FF162 8. "Carnegie Institute of Technology�" (3)
FF163 9. Christmas cards- 4 designs
FF164 10. "The Early Printing Press"

1. February 1937
2. Spring 1937
3. Autumn 1937
4. January 1938
5. April 1938
6. January 1939 (2)
7. Spring 1939
8. Reunion Issue 1939
9. February 1940 (2)
10. May 1940 (2)
11. Fall 1940
12. Spring 1941 (3)
13. Fall 1941 (2)
14. Spring 1942 (2)
15. Summer 1942
16. Summer 1943
17. Autumn 1944 (2)
18. November 1946
19. Winter 1946-47
20. Spring 1947
21. Summer 1947
22. Winter 1948
23. Spring 1948
24. Winter 1948-49
25. Spring 1949 (4)
26. Autumn 1949 (2)
27. Fall 1949 (3)
28. Spring 1950 (3)
29. Fall 1950
30. Spring 1951 (2)
31. Fall 1951
32. Spring 1952
33. Fall 1952
34. Spring 1953
35. Fall 1953
36. Spring 1954
37. Fall 1954 (2)
38. Spring 1955 (2)
39. Fall 1955
40. Spring 1956
41. Fall 1956
42. Winter 1956
43. Spring 1957
44. Fall 1957
45. Spring 1958
46. Winter 1958 (2)
47. Spring 1959 (2)
48. Winter 1959 (3)
49. Spring 1960 (4)
50. Winter 1960 (3)
51. Spring 1961 (2)
52. Winter 1963 (?)

1. 1923-24 (5)
2. 1925 (3)
3. 1928 (3)
4. 1929

F. "The Plaid Devil"

FF165 1. Winter 1979