Description
The top and bottom borders contain drawings of green mountains and blue sky; the left and right borders have a patterned design of green diamonds on a blue background. The dark green cartouche contains a quote from the college’s alma mater Men of Dartmouth by Richard Hovey (1864-1900) and a mileage scale. The quote reads: “‘For the men of Dartmouth who have the still North in their breath and the Granite of New Hampshire is made part of them ’till Death.’ — Hovey –.” The poet is praised in the 1951 issue of the The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:
In his admirable and often quoted New Yorker piece on college chants, Morris Bishop of Cornell remarks: “Blessed among colleges is Dartmouth. Blessed in having mothered Richard Hovey…a true poet [who] gave his college a series of songs, rich and masculine…a garland which no other American college can attempt to match.”
Full publication information lower center and lower right: “Designed by George O. Cutter Dartmouth 1940. Copyright 1938 by George O. Cutter. The Tudor Press. Boston, Mass.”
Tudor Press was a lithograph, offset, and letterpress printer in Boston. The company was founded by in 1910 by Ralph Harland Wilbur. With the purchase of a four-color offset press in 1940, the company became known for its large format color printing. The company printed pictorial maps by Elizabeth Shurtleff and others and printed field maps for the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. They also printed banknotes and currency. The founder’s son Harland Wilbur took over the firm in 1941; his son Ralph E. Wilbur became president of the company in 1965. He renamed it Graphic Litho and moved it to its current location in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1967.
Condition: Very good overall; professionally cleaned and deacidified with only light remaining toning and wear.
References:
“About Us.” Graphic Litho. http://www.graphiclitho.com/about (26 January 2023).
Hitchcock, Nancy A. “Lawrence, Mass. large format printer Graphic Litho thrives with specialty services.” New England Printer & Publisher. http://www.graphiclitho.com/docs/PINE-Company-Profile-Article-No-Date.pdf (26 January 2023).
McCarter, Bill. “The Hanover Scene.” October 1951. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1957/10/1/the-hanover-scene (26 January 2023).
