Norman Bel Geddes Database

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
The American Magazine publicity brochure announcing Geddes’s employment
1940

Job 399, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1939-1948

Summary: Bel Geddes was hired as a consultant to redesign The American Magazine, Collier's, and Woman's Home Companion.

(click image for description)

Box/Location	Folder	Description
box 22	399.1	Agreements 8Sep1939-1Mar1941.
box 22	399.2	Meeting minutes Apr1940-Jan1942. Design schedule Jan1940.
box 22	399.3	Client correspondence 1940, 1945. The American Magazine design memos 1939-1940, meeting minutes Apr1940.
box 22	399.4	The American Magazine publicity brochure, clippings, advertiser's offprints, covers.
box 22	399.5	ZigZag Spreads --- Brochures showing "animated advertising" layout.
box 22	399.6	The American Magazine bookmark 3rd cover.
flat file	399.1	Layout diagrams. Suggestions for covers. Dummy "Strip Spreads - Horizontal Pages" 1941. Clipping 1940.
damaged flat box 10	399.1	Fragments of layout drawings.
box 22	399.7	Woman's Home Companion --- Geddes-Roberts correspondence, Aug. 1941-Jan. 1942. Memos re WHC cover, 1940.
oversize box 8a	399.1	Woman's Home Companion --- January 1942 issue.
box 22	399.8	Case History --- Memos 1946. Clipping 1948. 2 Negative envelopes.
negative box 10	399.1	2 Negatives "Geddes - Criticism Meeting Crowell". [1 damaged]
box 22	399.9	Draft Job History --- Memo 1940. Collier's pattern [1940]. Memos re Crowell-Collier/Geddes Operation and Plan for Continued Operation Nov-Dec1941.
box 22	399.10	Clippings 1937-1940.
oversize box 8a	399.2-3	Clippings 1931, 1937, 1940.
photo box 11	399.1	Photograph of 1940 clipping.

BACK SEARCH AGAIN