Description
Interviews with (in v. 1); and with Ernest F. Wuthmann, Stewart Norris and Lorenz Schmidt (in v. 2). V. 1 covers the early history of the company, with extensive comment devoted to the identification of pictures of the company plants and offices in photograph albums deposited in The Bancroft Library; V. 2 covers the more recent history of the company - its growth and transition to a national corporation and its merger with the Stecher-traung Lithograph Corporation. Several anecdotes about Max Schmidt, founder of the firm. Photographs inserted.