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Cuneo Press. Cuneo Press Soundex Code C500. The Henneberry Printing Company opened a large plant at 22nd and Clinton Street near the Chicago River in the mid 1890s, and it was vastly enlarged in the 1920s after the company was taken over by John F. Cuneo, Sr., becoming the city's second largest printer the Cuneo Press .
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John Cuneo, Sr. purchased the mansion in 1937 after the collapse of the Insull utility empire. Cuneo is best known as the founder of the Cuneo Press and Hawthorn Mellody Dairy. Cuneo had the interior of the Mansion painted with murals from Chicago Ecclesiological Muralist John Mallin. In 2009, the house was donated to Loyola University Chicago.
The Cuneo Studio archival collection is comprised of four boxes and spans the years 1751-2014. The collection was donated to Northwestern University Library in 1977, after the closure of the Cuneo Fine Binding Studio. The records were generated by the Cuneo Fine Binding Studio, which was established in 1926 by the Cuneo Press, Inc.
In 1927 almost all the region's printing was in the city; some 1,500 production facilities employed over 30,000 workers. In 1960 there were 2,100 printing establishments in the city (including the world's three largest at the time: Donnelley, W. F. Hall, and Cuneo), but another 1,550 plants were located in the metropolitan area.
Abstract Chicago designer, publisher and printing historian. Includes extensive correspondence concerning his professional roles at Cuneo Press, Ludlow Typograph Co., the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, and various WPA projects, as well as files of material for his many writings on printing history and design.
The Cuneo Press was one of the largest commercial printing plants in the country. The company was in business for 70 years, closing when owner and founder John Cuneo died in 1977. The architect of buildings #1,2,4, and 5 in the right image was the incredibly prolific Alfred Alschuler.
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Cuneo Press had its beginnings in Kokomo in 1949 when it bought the buildings that housed General Electric’s operations here in town. Over the years it printed several national magazines including...
