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Series III: Design Experiments, Samples, and Supplies, 1950s-1980s, undated, undated

Philip Grushkin Papers, 1937-2001, bulk 1940s-1960s

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Series II: Project Files, 1940s-1994, undated

This series contains project files for several projects involving the design of book jackets, books, graphics, logos, and other items such as greeting cards, envelopes, invitations, and presentation pages.

Subseries II.1: Book Project Files, 1940s-1988

This subseries contains project files related to book and book jacket design. These files include comprehensives (comps), correspondence, cost estimates, drafts, illustrations, mechanicals, negatives, notes, project plans, and receipts.

Detective Book Club (Mercury Publications), 1940s-1950s


Box 18 Folder 3 Correspondence with George Salter, 1949-1950

Box 18 Folder 4 Correspondence and Envelopes, 1949-1961 undated, 1949-1961, undated

(This folder contains one undated note, and a few empty envelopes)

Box 18 Folder 4-10 Comprehensives for Detective Book Club #31-32, 41-54, 57-91, 93-112,, 1940s-1950s, (7 Folders)

Box 18 Folder 11-12 Jackets for Detective Book Club #1-38, 41, 43-45, 47-72, 1940s-1950s, (2 Folders)

Box 18 Folder 13 Jacket for True Crime Detective (Volume 1, Number 2), 1951 Spring, 1951


Box 19 Folder 6-27 Mechanicals for Detective Book Club #39, 41, 43-44, 47-48, 59-74,, 1940s-1950s


Box 13 Folder 2 Viña Delmar. The Marcaboth Women, 1951

(Book jacket design)


Box 2 Folder 48 Charles Abrams. Forbidden Neighbors, circa, 1955

(Book jacket design)


Box 13 Folder 1 Robert Leckie. Helmet for My Pillow, 1957

(Book jacket design.)


Box 3 Folder 5-6 H.W. Janson. History of Art, 1963, (2 Folders)

(Includes final book covers, layout notes regarding figure placement within the text, and sample figure)


Box 4 Folder 1-3 English-Spanish Picture Dictionary, 1972, (3 Folders)

(Prosposed set of "Look and Learn -- Picture Language Dictionary in Color" with Jack Jaget. Files include correspondence, drawings for illustrations, notes, and proposal drafts.)


Box 15 Folder 12-14 Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe. Happy Times, 1973, (3 Folders)

(Includes correspondence, negatives, comps, etc.)

Box 15 Folder 1 Lucy Dawidowicz. The War Against the Jews, 1974


Box 7 Folder 4 Impressionism and Post Impressionism , 1986

(This is a joint publication produced by an American and Russian design team. The file contains text with annotations, and newspaper articles on the project.)


Box 5 Folder 1-3 Frank M. Netter. Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1988, (3 Folders)

(Includes sketches and layouts of facial anatomy plates with draft notes by Grushkin and receipts from the lithography company. Arranged by plate number.)


Box 13 Folder 5-6 Random House Bindings Mystery, undated, (2 Folders)

(Includes samples of the bindings with artwork, as well as correspondence, etc.)

Subseries II.2: Graphic Design Projects, 1946-1968, 1994, undated

This subseries contains project files for several graphic design projects. These files contain drafts and final copies of the design, and a few files also include correspondence, cost estimates, negatives, and other records.


Box 19 Folder 1-2 Alfred D. Smith, 1946, (2 Folders)

(Includes correspondence)


Box 2 Folder 45 Steuben Glass, 1947 undated


Box 19 Folder 3 Grolier Club 75th, 1959


Box 3 Folder 1 Joseph Bancroft & Sons, 1964

Box 3 Folder 2 Frick Collection, 1968

(Includes correspondence and negatives)


Box 2 Folder 47 Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller, 1994

Box 2 Folder 46 Alfred A. Knopf, undated


Box 13 Folder 3 Modern Library Paperback Mark, undated

Box 13 Folder 4 Modern Library Mark Revision, undated


Box 14 Folder 6 Graphic Design--Mechanicals, 1940s undated

(This mechanical contains logos for Steuben, Keller Company, and one additional logo)

Subseries II.3: Other Projects Files, 1940s-1950s, undated, undated

This subseries contains project files for both professional and personal projects. These projects include a scalograph (created for the War Department in 1945), calligraphy projects, greeting cards, envelopes, invitations, and presentation pages.


Box 5 Folder 9 "Scalograph" for the War Department (Corps of Engineers), 1945

(Rejected)


Box 7 Folder 3 Lettering and Calligraphy in Current Advertising and Publishing (Exhibition Catalog), with Mechanical,, 1945

(Includes the published catalog (which includes a printed figure by Grushkin) and a mechanical of the figure. The figure is untitled, but appears to be an early Philip Grushkin (PG) mark.)


Box 5 Folder 7 Cooper Union Art School Invitation, 1950s

(Gruskin designed the calligraphy)

Box 5 Folder 8 Originality in Books (Essay), 1950

(Calligraphy for a section in "Bouquet for BR" published by the Typophiles in honor of Bruce Rogers)


Box 14 Folder 4 Harry N. Adams Presentation Pages, undated

Greeting Cards


Box 7 Folder 5-7 Greeting Cards and Invitations, undated, (3 Folders)

(These files design experiments, mechanicals, and finished pieces)


Box 15 Folder 15 Greeting Cards (Mechanicals), undated


Box 14 Folder 5 Grushkin Family Holiday Card, undated

(Mechanical for holiday card)


Box 7 Folder 8 Envelope Design for Jean Grushkin, undated