The Jonathan D. Bulkley collection of illustrated billheads and letterheads contains about 36,000 billheads, letterheads, flyers, and other ephemera relating to commerce and industry in the United States from 1758 to 1952, with the bulk of the items dating from 1840 to 1910. Most of the items are engravings, but some lithographs are also included. Imagery, logos, and decorative typography on the documents relate to the history of American and international trade, production, finance, and printing and graphic design in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Jonathan Duncan Bulkley (1930-2012) was born in Port Chester, New York and grew up in North Salem, New York. In 1947, he graduated from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. From 1948 to 1950, Bulkley served in the Marine Corps Reserve, then studied at Yale University. In 1957, he earned an architecture degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he studied under the modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In 1958, Bulkley moved to San Francisco, California, and in 1960, he established Jonathan Bulkley and Associates, his architecture firm where he specialized in designing commercial and residential buildings. In the early 1970s, he founded the real estate property company, Round Hill Pacific and worked as an investor in the San Francisco area where he resided until his death in 2012.

44.58 Linear Feet (214 binders)

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