LC control no. | no 00016257 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Salter, Stefan |
Associated country | Germany United States |
Located | Queens (New York, N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) |
Birth date | 1907-09-28 |
Death date | 1985-01 |
Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
Place of death | Columbia (Mo.) |
Field of activity | Book design Printing Bookbinding |
Affiliation | American Book-Stratford Press Pantheon Books University of Missouri--Columbia |
Profession or occupation | Book designers Bookbinders Typographers College students |
Found in | Short stories of Wilkie Collins, 1950: colophon (format, typography, and binding designed by Stefan Salter) German Designers online, June 20, 2019: Stefan Salter (Book and jacket design. Born 28 September 1907 in Berlin. 1926: went to London and studied at the County Council School of Arts and Crafts: typography, printing and bookbinding, the latter under Douglas Cockerell. 1928: emigrated to New York. 1932: moved to California where he read (foreign) books for the story departments of Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers, and worked with printers. 1937: returned to New York and began his career as a book designer, having been trained by his brother George Salter. Until 1942 worked for the printer American Book-Stratford Press, New York. 1943-64: designed books for Pantheon Books, New York. Became a U.S. citizen mid 1930s) <http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/stefan_salter> Encyclopedia of Science Fiction online, June 20, 2019: George Salter (Salter's brother Stefan Salter (1907-1985), in America from 1928, was also an illustrator) <http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/salter_george> Ancestry.com, June 20, 2019: Stefan Salter in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (Born: 28 Sep 1907; Died: Jan 1985; Last Residence: Columbia, Boone, Missouri, USA) 1940 United States Federal Census, via Ancestry.com, January 22, 2021 (Queens, N.Y.; 78 Road, no. 141-27: Stefan Salter, head of household; sex: male; age: 32; born: Germany; where living on April 1, 1935: California; occupation: art director; industry: book retail store) New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943, via Ancestry.com, January 22, 2021 (Declaration of intention, dated March 6, 1929: Stefan Salter; occupation: play broker; born: Berlin, Germany, Sept. 28, 1907; now residing: 9 Thayer St., New York City, N.Y.) "The thirsty man," in the Kansas City star (Kansas City, Mo.), 1 April 1979, via Newspapers.com, January 22, 2020 (Stefan Salter, a 71-year-old blind, disabled man attending the University of Missouri-Columbia to earn a master's degree) "Blind amputee loses aid for bus trips," in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Mo.), 25 Mar. 1979, via Newspapers.com, January 22, 2020 (Stefan Salter, a 71-year-old blind amputee attending the University of Missouri; a German immigrant; a former book designer; working toward master's degrees in art history and foreign languages; blind since 1964 and lost a leg 11 years later) |