All Chicago manufacturing was discontinued. The merger brought new machinery and added 250 people to the work force at the Joliet factory. Washington were retained and a special selling organization of both companies would sell from both lines. According to the Joliet Sunday Herald, (December 28, 1924) the Volland offices at 58 E. Though there was no change in the name of the products, they were manufactured by the Gerlach-Barklow company in Joliet, Illinois. In 1924, the greeting card division of Gerlach-Barklow merged with P.F. Although the exact dates are not clear, at some point after 1918, Volland established additional offices in Joliet to handle increased production. Clampitt who had been a silent partner from the start and an executive member of the firm since 1916, became president of Volland after Paul Volland’s untimely death in 1919. Other illustrators and writers of note include Frederick Richardson, Janet Laura Scott, Maginel Wright Enright, John Rae, and Katherine Sturges Dodge.į.J. Probably the most well-known Volland writer and illustrator is Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, some of whose first titles were published by Volland. Paul Volland hired many of the most significant artists and writers of his time. Throughout their publishing history, Volland issued books as parts of larger series, such as the Sunny Book series, Fairy Children, Read Me A Story, and the Inglenook series. By the mid 'teens Volland was publishing a variety of high quality children’s books issued in illustrated boxes and proclaiming the Volland ideal. Haley, and Samuel Kiser.Ī boxed set of four juvenile titles with lithographed illustrations was available in 1912. Volland hired some of the industry’s best-known motto and verse writers such as Wilbur Nesbit, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Molly A. According to Ernest Dudley Chase's The Romance of Greeting Cards (University Press, 1956), Paul Volland was the first to use mottled and soft-shaded boards for his cards as well as the latest advances in offset printing techniques. The company published small gift books with mailing envelopes as early as 1908 and soon expanded to other novelty items such as baby books, cook books, calendars, place cards, bridge tallies, and cards for almost every imaginable occasion. Items were marketed nationally to gift, card and book shops as well as sold in a retail section of the Volland office. Initially, greeting cards formed the largest portion of the publications though several gift books were also published. Volland's first offerings were twenty hand colored mottos suitable for framing followed by a line of Christmas cards. Washington, just a few doors down from Dennisons, a well-known store that specialized in party favors and paper crafts. Volland Company was started by German-born Paul Volland with silent partners John Willis and F.J. Volland Company Collection,, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: P.F. Researchers, please request this material 24 hours in advance of use. The cards were used in seasonal window displays and were sometimes sold many of the cards in the collection have prices penciled in from their time at Mr. According to his wife, she and her husband retrieved the financial records and the cards from an abandoned warehouse in Joliet. It appears that at some point in the lives of these documents they were the property of Lincoln Park florist, Jerry Kaiser. In 1990, the Department received over 10,000 greeting cards published by Volland from the late 1920s through 1950. In December 1989, the Special Collections Department received as a gift the financial records of the Volland Press from the period of 1913 to 1929. Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S.
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