• Introduction

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• Richard Robert Donnelley: Midwestern Business Pioneer
• The Family and the Company
• The Evolution of a Graphic Identity: The R.R. Donnelley Indianhead
• The Architecture of Printing
• Training Craftsmen: The R.R. Donnelley Apprentice Program
• Craftsmanship by Example: Fine Binding
• Early Advances in Technology
• Research and Development After World War II
• Promoting the Craft: The Four American Books Campaign
• "Undivided Responsibility": R.R. Donnelley Advertising, 1920-1945
• "Undivided Responsibility": R.R. Donnelley Advertising, 1946-1965
• Promoting the Craft: Public Exhibitions in the Lakeside Press Galleries
• Printer to the Modernist Movement: A Century of Progress
• Graphic Design in the C. Prentiss Smith Papers
• Imaging the Craft: Photography in the R.R. Donnelley Archive
• Printer to Chicago
• Mass-Market Magazines Part 1
• Mass-Market Magazines Part 2
• Mail-Order Catalogs
• Printing for the National Marketplace
• The R.R. Donnelley Community
• Defining Moments of the Modern Age
• R.R. Donnelley and World War II
• Collections within a Collection: Scrapbooks, Ledgers, Albums

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• Exhibit Checklist
• About the Exhibit
• Rights and Reproductions

Printer to Chicago

From the time of its founding, RR Donnelley was engaged in its community, printing for many of Chicago's museums, clubs, banks, department stores, hotels, academic institutions, companies, and publishers (both commercial and private). The work, which included books, magazines, marketing brochures, retail catalogs, directories, and annual reports, was the outgrowth of the Donnelley family's active participation in the civic, cultural, and economic life of the city, backed by the company's reputation for quality work.

For half a century, starting in the 1920s, the company's list of local clients reads like a roster of prominent Chicago businesses and institutions. It includes Abbott Laboratories, Carson Pirie Scott & Company, Commonwealth Edison, Container Corporation of America, Marshall Field & Company, Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Morton Salt Company, Northern Trust Company, the Palmer House, C. D. Peacock, the Pullman Company, Row, Peterson & Company, Stone & Kimball, Quaker Oats, Schwinn and Company, United States Gypsum Company, Way & Williams, and William Wrigley Company, as well as the American College of Surgeons, the Adler Planetarium, American Library Association, Armour Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Museum of Science and Industry, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, to name only a few.

The RR Donnelley Archive contains hundreds of rarely saved printed pieces, all in remarkable condition. As a collection they provide evidence of trends in printing technology, but equally important they reveal much about Chicago's unique approach to marketing.

	3. Program, invitation and tickets, Grand Opera Masque Ball, Chicago Civic Opera, 1933. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive.
	5a. C. Prentiss Smith, design sequence for John McCutcheon's Book, [ca. 1945-1948]. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive. RR Donnelley printed the Caxton Club's tribute to the noted Chicago Tribune cartoonist.
	5b. C. Prentiss Smith, design sequence for John McCutcheon's Book, [ca. 1945-1948]. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive.
	10. "Three-Thirty-Three North Michigan Avenue Building." Prospectus, 1927. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive.
	11. Chicago Transit Authority. "'L' Map of Chicago." [1933]. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Archive.

Printing For The Modern Age: Commerce, Craft And Culture in the RR Donnelley Archive. Kim Coventry and Maija Anderson.

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