I LOVE a Good Mystery, Especially When It Gets SOLVED
It was exciting to open up my email this morning and get a note from Beth in Chicago (researcher par excellence, obvs) who has tracked down the identity of our vintage baby announcement family. And the story, as it unfolds, is pretty cool. I've omitted some of the more personal information she found.
After receiving Beth's note, I did a little digging around regarding Paul M. Ressinger. Here's what I found:
- Paul was an industrial designer who filed quite a few cool interesting product patents. This display case, display stand, illuminating device, folding packing receptacle, fountain pen, pen and pencil clip, swing for children, and my favorite, this vehicle for children. There are actually tons of patents by Mr. Ressinger.
- He was a founder of the Society of Typographic Arts-Chicago, which has a fascinating history. This history might shed some light on the other items we've found in the house, including this Prestini bowl from the Bauhaus era and this book of fonts. STA was associated with the same community of designers and artists who started the Institute of Design and László Moholy-Nagy was the first Director of the Institute. One of his artistic colleagues was Geza de Vegh who wrote a book about ceramics and created this vase that we found in the house at the Von Tury Studios in 1938.
Are you following this? Bauhaus bowl + Hungarian artist's ceramics + fonts & typography + baby announcement = Society of Typographic Arts + the Institute of Design.
Or something like that.
Paul M. Ressinger passed away in 1955 at the age of 64 (much too young). His widow, Berenice "Bunny" Ressinger, passed away at the age of 94. They had two sons, Paul Martin Jr. and...John Adams. A fellow Northwestern alum.
Whose birth announcement this is.
Which I would very much like to give back to him if he would like to have it.
I'll work on that next.
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