The Peter Newell Family Papers contain correspondence, photographs, personal papers, writings, drawings, paintings and publications that document the life and career of illustrator and humorist Peter Newell, with additional material relating to his children, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. The papers span the dates of 1840-1985, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1884-1950.
Primarily a bookbinder, Peter Verburg apprenticed under bookbinder Ellen Starr Gates at the Hull House bindery in Chicago.
For the Boston publisher L.C. Page, he provided at least one book cover, and a set of decorations that were reused in a set of titles by the author Nathan Gallizier.
He later went on to become the directory of the bindery at the Merrymount Press, working for D.B. Updike.
The thesis examines the career of the artist and craft worker Phoebe Traquair (1B52-1936) and her role in both the establishment and development of an Edinburgh arts and, crafts school between the 1880s and the 1920s.