https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/printmaking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=printmaking Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy Sun, 10 Apr 2022 02:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/printmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1594115 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:13:08 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=16725#comment-1594115 Do you have any information on McCandless Lithography Co., in Philadelphia?
My father, Joseph N. Kaiser worked for the from 1937 until 1941. He then worked for Sweeney Brothers Lithography as superintendent in Bellevue, N.J., who was under a contract with the Army Air Force making silk maps for paratroopers. When the government sent a map to Sweeney Bros., my father looked them over and told the owner of Sweeney’s that the maps were incorrect. My father had spent his youth reading Harpers Magazine and looking over maps at the local library in Newport, Kentucky where we grew up. The owner of Sweeney Brothers contacted the officer at the Army Air Force and told them the map appeared to be flawed. The AAF sent up two officers to look at the map. They agreed that the map was incorrect and a week later they sent up a correct map. After that, the head of the company would trust no one but my father. His quick actions saved thousands of paratroopers between 1942-45.

]]> https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/printmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-1330259 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:38:43 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=16725#comment-1330259 Was Richard Hood, former teacher at Phila. College of Art , head of the Fine Print Workshop?
Many of the prints you mentioned including the Carborundum process are on display at the Woodmere right now.

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