{"id":1186,"date":"2011-03-09T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:21:29","slug":"1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/03\/09\/1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 62 – 1922: A Book of Samples of Papers Manufactured to Print Properly All Kinds of Illustrations, Together with a Book of the Same Papers Printed and Lithographed in All of the Principal Processes Used for Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Published: New York, 1922<\/p>\n

This elaborately titled volume was published by the Champion Coated Paper Company to showcase and market its various paper lines. Today, the book serves as a valuable reference work covering the paper types and printing processes of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n

Coated paper, as the name implies, is coated on one or both sides with a mixture of binder and pigment; the resulting paper provides an excellent base for printing. The coating, when burnished, creates an enamel-like surface, which explains several of the company\u2019s fanciful product names for their enamel papers: Aigrette, Wedgewood, Velvett and Hingefold (which \u201cfolds both ways\u201d). \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside the front cover of this hefty tome there\u2019s an index which, we are told, \u201cgives the whole story \u2013 study it carefully.\u201d It lists in graph form all the company\u2019s papers, along with examples of illustrations that have been produced using various printing techniques, which in themselves serve as a chronological guide to the history of illustration processes: \u00a0woodcut, Ben Day, photogravure, halftone, and so on.<\/p>\n

The Champion Coated Paper Company was founded in 1893 in Hamilton, Ohio by Peter Thomson, a printer of greeting cards and valentines. In the early decades of the 20th century, Champion was known for offering the lowest industry prices for coated papers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In 1926, Champion would inaugurate a technical research division \u2013 at the time a fairly new concept in the paper industry. The company hired a chemist from DuPont to help solve a problem they were having with the alum that was used in paper coatings. The chemist devised a solution during his first week, and lo: within a few years, there were 40 chemists on Champion\u2019s staff. The subsequent technological advances led to better-quality paper, as well as profitable new byproducts, including tanning extract and turpentine.<\/p>\n

Champion experienced steady growth through mergers, acquisitions and the purchase of timberlands throughout the 20th century, until it was finally acquired by International Paper in June 2000.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1922 This elaborately titled volume was published by the Champion Coated Paper Company to showcase and market its various paper lines. Today, the book serves as a valuable reference work covering the paper types and printing processes of the early 20th century. Coated paper, as the name implies, is coated on one or both sides with a mixture of binder and pigment; the resulting paper provides an excellent base for printing. The coating, when burnished, creates an enamel-like surface, which explains several of the company\u2019s fanciful product names for their enamel papers: Aigrette, Wedgewood, Velvett and Hingefold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}