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Tracy, Walter Valentine, 1914-1995 (typographer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1914 - 1995

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Chicago Sun-Times, 1965-1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814/B81/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Quentin P. Gore, James F. Hoge, and Walter Tracy.

Dates: 1965-1967
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).
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Correspondence, 1954-1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/E12/1
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters are between Meynell and Bror Zachrisson. Other correspondents include Charles Batey, Harry Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Alan Dodson, Ealing School of Art (T. E. Lightfoot), Desmond Flower, Frank Francis, F. C. Friend, Donald Gardner, T. C. Hart, Douglas Jerrold, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, Walter Tracy, With the letters is a note by Meynell explaining his reasons for not contributing to the collection

Dates: 1954-1959
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).
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Minneapolis Tribune, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814/B81/5
Scope and Contents

Letter from Frank Ariss to Hutt, with copies of letters congratulating the newspaper on its redesign. With these is a letter from Walter Tracy to Hutt.

Dates: 1971
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).
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Papers, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814/D5/10
Scope and Contents

Folder 1 = printed papers; issue of Printing World (13 Nov. 1963) Folder 2 = correspondence, reports and ms. notes by Hutt. Included are ms. memoranda by the judges John Freeman, T. C. Hart, and J. E. Martineau, and Hutt's draft 'Judges' report' (typescript of 8 pages). The letters to Hutt are from R. J. Caesar, F. T. Colley, Neil Speed, and Walter Tracy.

Dates: 1963
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).
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Walter Tracy, 1953-1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814/E/56
Scope and Contents

Folders 1-3 = correspondence. With this are specimen issues of the News of the North (Yellowknife, N.W.T., Canada) for 30 Apr. 1970 and Neue Kronen Zeitung (Vienna, 24 Apr. 1973) Folder 4 = 'London Transport typography', a typescript (carbon copy) of 14 pages by Tracy and another author and a printed leaflet by Tracy (?) about Linotype Royal type at the Financial Times (both ca. 1970).

Dates: 1953-1973
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).