Creator:
Seibel, Ben.
Inclusive Dates:
1973- 1983
Abstract:
American industrial designer, particularly of tableware. Collection includes catalogs, design sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, and a considerable number of items of table- and kitchen-ware (china, metal, stoneware, plaster, steel, glass, wood).
Type of Material:
Catalogs (documents)
Correspondence.
Design drawings.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Sketches.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Plastics
Industrial Design
Flatware -- Design.
Kitchen utensils -- Design.
Industrial design -- United States.
Industrial design -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial designers -- United States.
Tableware -- Design.
Creator:
Snader, Howard, 1886-
Inclusive Dates:
1922- 1929
Abstract:
Notebook relating to the company's production of underwear and stockings
Type of Material:
Laboratory notebooks.
Research notes.
Subject:
Business and Industry
Industrial Design
Popular culture
Hosiery industry.
Sewing machines -- History.
Underwear -- History.
Women's clothing -- History.
Creator:
Spilman, Raymond, 1911-
Inclusive Dates:
1933- 1976
Abstract:
Papers of the American industrial designer. Business records and financial and legal materials relating to Spilman's company, Raymond Spilman Industrial Design; and personal papers.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Bank statements.
Bills of sale.
Correspondence.
Oral histories (literary works)
Photographs.
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Time sheets.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Industrial Design
Industrial design -- United States.
Industrial designers -- United States.
Creator:
Steinhilber, Budd
Inclusive Dates:
1942- 2007
Abstract:
Papers of the American industrial designer and environmental activist.
Collection includes slides and high quality digital photos on CD-ROM. Clients and products represented span more
than sixty years and include Tucker Corporation (the Tucker automobile, 1940s), Greyhound, Bell Aircraft (personal
helicopter, 1946), Antioch College (signs, catalogs, programs, 1950s), General Electric (shipping cartons, 1962),
Lockheed (data entry console, 1967), MultMode Transit System (electric car, 1967), Fresno Air Terminal (signage, 1970s),
Atari (exhibit booth and staging, 1970s-80s), Pabst (can and bottle designs, 1984), several California vineyards
(labels and packaging, 1980s), Christen Industries (biplane, 1977), and dozens more.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Slides (photographs)
Digital images.
Subject:
Industrial designers.
Industrial Design
Art, American -- 20th century.
Communication in design.
Industrial design -- United States.
Ecological engineering.
Graphic arts.
Graphic design (Typography)
Industrial designers -- United States.
New products -- Design
Packaging -- Design
Product engineering
Sustainable engineering.
Tucker automobile.
Creator:
Syracuse Ornamental Company
Inclusive Dates:
1908- 2005
Abstract:
Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) American manufacturing
company, founded in 1890 and based in Syracuse, New York, was best known for molded wood-pulp interior decorations
and gift and novelty items that resembled hand-carving. Later they integrated polymers into their molding process
and then moved entirely into plastics production. Collection contains illustrated sales catalogues spanning most
of the company’s existence and annual reports from the later period after it was sold to non-Syracuse corporations.
Type of Material:
Annual reports.
Catalogs (documents)
Promotional materials.
Subject:
Plastics
Industrial Design
New York State
Plastics industry and trade.
Plastics in interior decoration.
Plastic novelties.
Molding (Plastics)
Moldings -- Catalogs.
Wooden novelties.