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Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974 (typographic designer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1902 - 1974

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Correspondence between Morison and Jan Tschichold, 1936-1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/276
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 printed New-Year's cards from Jan and Edith Tschichold for 1936 and 1938; 2 further printed bifolia and an offprint dated 1964. One of the printed bifolia encloses a bifolium of a Latin ms. 'of moral tracts' of ca. 1450.

Dates: 1936-1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Correspondence relating to the University Printer's Christmas books., 1948-1976

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824/A
Scope and Contents

Original letters to Crutchley (or occasionally John Dreyfus or others at the Press), and typescript carbon copies of letters from him. Most of the letters to Crutchley convey thanks for copies of the books.

Dates: 1948-1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Files on individual people

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/A
Scope and Contents John Dreyfus's files consisting principally of correspondence, but also clippings, examples of printing (if the person was a printer or engraver), compositions by the person, and in some cases Dreyfus's research notes and compositions relating to the person. Some files have the name of a press or other corporate body rather than a person. The contents of this series are as follows: Box 1 = Abacus Typographers, Olive F. Abbott, George Abrams, Elmer Adler, Alexander Alexieff, Greer Allen,...
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Jan Tschichold, 1955

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/120
Scope and Contents

Two letters to Meynell, with a printed greeting leaflet and a printed pamphlet Formenwandlungen der e-Zeichen inscribed to Meynell (neither dated).

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Letters from various correspondents (T) to Oliver Simon, 1947-1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9853/A1/31
Scope and Contents

The letters are from Gertrude Temkin (1948) and Jan Tschichold (1947. 1954).

Dates: 1947-1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).