Paul A. Bennett papers

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id: 4827
origination: Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966
date statement: 1925-1966
key date: 1925
identifier (local_mss): 262
org unit: Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number: MssCol 262
b-number: b12078391
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unitdate: {"value"=>"1925-1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1925/1966"}
date_inclusive_start: 1925
date_inclusive_end: 1966
keydate: 1925
date_start: 1925
date_end: 1966
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repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division. <div class=\"address\"> Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</div>"}
abstract: {"value"=>"Paul Arthur Bennett (1897-1966) was a manager and executive in the advertising industry, specializing in typography. He was the secretary and a leading figure in the Typophiles Society in New York City. He worked for Fuller-Smith, Dunlop-Ward, and the Chandler Motor Company, all of Cleveland, and the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York City. Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, research materials, typescripts of writings, and other papers relating to Bennett's career in advertising and his work with the Typophiles. Includes material relating to the Chap Book series, published by the Typophiles."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite: {"value"=>"Paul A. Bennett papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
origination: {"value"=>"Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist: {"value"=>" <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> Born, Brooklyn, New York</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1897, March 22 Attended Stuyvesant High School. Employed in print shop of Paul B. Hoeber, New York City publisher and bookseller.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1914-18 Military service during the 1914-18 War: Camp Gordon, Atlanta Georgia; Camp Hancock, Augusta Georgia; France</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1920 Married Margaret Hogan. Director of Typography, Fuller & Smith, Cleveland, Ohio</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1923 Art Director and Production Manager, Dunlap-Ward Agency, Cleveland</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1924 Advertising Manager, Chandler Motor Company, Cleveland</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1927 Birth of son Donald.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> In charge of advertising and printing for Paul B, Hoeber, New York City</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1928 Publicity Department, Mergenthaler Linotype Co. Partner, William H. Denney Co.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1929-62 In charge of typographic layout, Mergenthaler Linotype Co. Later advertising, then typographic promotion.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1931-3 Lecturer on Graphic Arts, New York University</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1935-7 Editor, News-Letter, American Institute of Graphic Arts</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1935-9 Director, American Institute of Graphic Arts</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1937 (possibly early 1930s) Founding member, The Typophiles</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1938 European trip for Mergenthaler Linotype Co.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1951 Editor, Books and Printing, a Treasury for Typophiles</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1953, December 3 Testimonial dinner, Hotel Statler, New York City</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1959 European trip for Mergenthaler Linotype Co.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1961 Gold Medal, AIGA</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1962 Navigators Service-to-Industry Award. Retirement from Mergenthaler Linotype Co.</li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> 1966, December 18 Died, Jackson Heights, New York.</li></ul> Associations: American Institute of Graphic Arts Grolier Club Rounce & Coffin Club, Los Angeles Roxburghe Club, San Francisco Society of Printers, Boston Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago Type Directors Club, New York Typophiles"}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"The earliest scattered papers are from the middle 1920's, when Mr. Bennett was Advertising Manager of the Chandler Motor Co., Cleveland, Ohio. More extensive papers appear after the early 1930's, with the development of the Typophiles, a group of men interested in graphics and fine printing, as a publishing organization, and Mr. Bennett's progress through the publicity department of the Moergenthaler Linotype Co., which he joined in 1928, and its subsidiary, the William H. Denney Co., to Typographic Promotion Manager of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. The Mergenthaler Linotype correspondence includes internal memoranda, memoranda to field representatives, material on advertising, correspondence with clients on matters of design and production, and general correspondence. There are individual folders for many promotional trips, conferences, exhibition juries, and lecture engagements. In the period before 1942 only files for the early letters of the alphabet (A-D) have been preserved. A considerable amount of material dealing with Mr. Bennett's relationship with Jackson Burke, Vice-president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., was destroyed by the Estate. Correspondence with certain notable figures, including Rudolph Ruzicka, W. A. Dwiggins, Bruce Rogers, and F. W. Goudy, together with the manuscript and other material related to an unpublished biography of F. W. Goudy, was removed for sale by Mr. Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, before receipt of the papers at The New York Public Library. The Typophiles took shape under Paul Bennett's guidance in the early 1930's. The material in the Bennett Papers includes records of membership and attendance at the regular luncheon meetings, orders and accounts for the volumes published under their imprint, a large amount of design-oriented matter (correspondence, sketches, dummies, specifications), and general correspondence. Mr. Bennett wrote for a number of periodicals, including the American Printer, Colophon, Linotype News, Penrose Annual, Printing, and Publishers' Weekly. He was a contributor to The Dolphin and editor of Books and Printing, a Treasury for Typophiles (World Publishing Co., 1951). His biography of F, W. Goudy reached dummy stage before conflict with the publisher brought about the book's withdrawal. Correspondence relating to these activities, together with research notes, typescripts, dummies and proofs, is included in the Bennett Papers. There is a small amount of personal family correspondence, including letters from the Bennett's son Donald to his family during overseas action in the 1939-45 War. Correspondents include John Archer, Elmer Adler, Peter Beilenson, Joseph Blumenthal, Will Bradley, T. M. Cleland, P. J. Conkwright, W. A. Dwiggins, F. W. Goudy, Henry Watson Kent, William Kittredge, A. A. Knopf, George McKay, George Macy, Will Ransom, Ernst Reichl, Ward Ritchie, Bruce Rogers, Carl Purington Rollins, George Salter, Rollo Silver, Oliver Simon, James Shand, Paul Standard, Norman Strouse, Walter Tracy, Jan van Krimpen, Beatrice Warde, Hermann Zapf."}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"The papers of Paul Arthur Bennett, advertising artist, teacher, lecturer, author, editor, and typographic advisor, were given to The New York Public Library in 1967 by Dr. Robert L. Leslie, Mrs.Bennett."}
processinfo: {"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"Pre-processing inventory by Harvey Simmonds December, 1967"}
extent_statement: 33 linear feet (33 boxes)

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