Rare FINE ARTS Puzzle 'Hunting Pals' - No. 2384 [300 pieces]

(Saalfield Publishing Company, Publications)

(features envelope postmarked January 18, 1957)

Awaiting the Attack
Fishing Bears
Hunting Pals (300 piece interlocking puzzle)
Majestic Nature
Sail On
Where Peace Abides
Winter-Time

The library and archives of the Saalfield Publishing Company of Akron, Ohio, were purchased by Kent State University in April, 1977. The Saalfield Company published children's books and other products from 1899 to 1977 and was, at one time, one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world. This inventory is limited to a group of cloth books, picture puzzles, paper dolls, and a variety of activity books. (There is a separate inventory for original artwork from the collection.) The cloth items include children's books, banners, and promotional materials. Among the activity books are coloring books, follow-the-dot books, pasting and sticker books, wet-a-brush, rub-a-pencil, and stencil books, and sewing cards. Of special interest are a number of Shirley Temple items including authorized editions of paper dolls (including one 32" tall), coloring books, sewing cards, and other activity books. Materials are arranged first by type of publication (muslin books, coloring books, paper dolls, etc.), and then by publisher's number without regard to date of publication. The categories themselves were suggested by the Saalfield Company's own publisher's catalogs and by the order in which the collection was received.

Saalfield Publishing

The Saalfield Publishing Company published children's books and other products from 1900 to 1977. It was once one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world.

The company was founded in 1900 in Akron, Ohio, by Arthur J. Saalfield who had come to take charge of the Werner Company's publishing department. During its flourishing, the company published the works of authors including Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, Daniel Defoe, Colonel George Durston, Laura Lee Hope, Herman Melville, Dr. Seuss, Anna Sewell, Shirley Temple, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Johann Rudolf Wyss, and Robert Sidney Bowen.

Saalfield published the New Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica in 1903, and was sued for copyright violation.

The company also published educational toys and games, including the game Blockhead!.

A page from Ethel Hays's version of Peter Rabbit © Saalfield Publishing Company.

Among the artists employed by Saalfield was noted illustrator Ethel Hays. She worked on a variety of the company's juvenile titles, including Peter Rabbit, The Night Before Christmas, and The Little Red Hen. Her most notable work came after Saalfield had secured the license from the Johnny Gruelle Company in 1944 to produce Raggedy Anne and Andy material. Storybooks, coloring books, and paper doll ^[1] booklets soon followed. Most of the artwork fell to Hays, "whose exuberant, curvilinear style perfectly captured the whimsy and energy of Gruelle's characters." ^[2]

In April 1977 Saalfield Publishing Company shut down, and its library and archives were purchased by Kent State University.

Lawsuit over New Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica

Saalfield published the Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica in 8 volumes with a 4 volume supplement (when the British edition had 24 volumes). The Encyclopædia Britannica Company had acquired all the rights to the encyclopedia in America. In addition, D. Appleton & Company claimed that the 4 volume supplement used material from Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.

To avoid further litigation, the suit against Saalfield Publishing was settled in court "by a stipulation in which the defendants agree not to print or sell any further copies of the offending work, to destroy all printed sheets, to destroy or melt the portions of the plates from which the infringing matter in the Supplement as it appears in the Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica has been printed, and to pay D. Appleton & Co. the sum of $2000 damages."^[3]

See also

• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica

References

• Kent State University archives
• Special Collections, Akron-Summit County Public Library

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