The Work of Ismar David at the Cary - RIT Libraries - Rochester ...

The Work of
at the Cary Collection
Description of the Archive (cont’d)
series of small volumes on religious themes for the Fleming H.
Revell Company provide an example of this type of commission.
Lettering and calligraphy—with illustration, or without—account
for another large share of David’s corporate commissions. The
subseries holds lettering work for both two and three-dimensional
objects from certificates, greeting cards, and advertisements to
commemorative medals, stone monuments, and crystal goblets.
Files for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations hold work
for a large volume of certificate projects; and entries for the
United Jewish Appeal present the design of several commemorative
medallions.
Corporate Commissions also contains identity mark projects that
Ismar David undertook for entities other than publishing houses,
including Bell Telephone Laboratories, the Brotherhood Synagogue,
Continental Forest Industries, the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, and the
World Trade Institute.A selection of nine trademarks was combined
for presentation by David, and the item resides in the World Trade
Institute folder. Files for the trademark projects usually contain
sketches, drawings and mechanical art, but not printed exemplars.
The Museum of Modern Art is one exception to this trend.
The subseries also includes architectural design for memorial
parks and synagogues. Work for long-term client Pinelawn
Memorial Park is represented by a wide range of materials,
including small-scale plan drawings, large-scale lettering for
stone inscriptions on rolled pieces of kraft paper, renderings, and
hand-built models of architectural features, as well as photographs
of completed features.
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