Margaret Schmid Hartelius student work
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0079
Summary
Consists of two illustrations completed by Margaret Schmid (1922-2001) for an advertising design course at Parsons School of Design. After graduating in 1947. Schmid, whose name changed when she married Paul Hartelius, Jr., went on to a successful fifty-year career as an illustrator and children's book author.
Dates
- 1946 - 1947
Creator
- Hartelius, Margaret A. (Person)
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (2 illustrations)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents of Collection
The two items in the collection are brightly colored advertisements for CBS records and WABC news. Attached to one of the drawings is a copy of the design problem describing the class assignment: to create an advertising campaign for a broadcasting company.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical note
Margaret Schmid (1922-2001) was born in Reading, Michigan. She attended Parsons School of Design in the 1940s and graduated in 1947. She and her husband, Paul Hartelius, Jr., established Briarmead, a commercial illustration studio, through which she served as a freelance illustrator for major publishing companies. Among their joint projects was the design of the Camp Fire Girls handbooks. She later became a prolific author and illustrator of children's books. She died in 2001 at the age of 78.
Source:
[obituary]. Journal.Maine.Com. Accessed August 17, 2010 at http://journal.maine.com/Obituaries/by_code.html?code=20010809528600
http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/margaret-a-hartelius/50630632
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Margaret Schmid Hartelius, 1996.
External Support
The processing of this collection was supported in part by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust.
- Advertising layout and typography (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Commercial art -- United States (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Drawings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Graphic arts -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
- Parsons School of Design. Graphic Advertising and Illustration Department
- Student projects (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Margaret Schmid Hartelius student work
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anne Kumer
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- August 19, 2010: Bernadette Vitale revised and expanded descriptive notes.