The Butterick Publishing Company was founded by Ebenezer Butterick to distribute the first graded sewing patterns . By 1867, it had released its first magazine, Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions, followed by The Metropolitan in 1868. These magazines contained patterns and fashion news.
16-465: Butterick may refer to: Butterick Publishing Company People with the surname [ edit ] Ebenezer Butterick (1826–1903), American tailor, inventor and businessman Matthew Butterick (born 1970), American typographer, lawyer and writer Mike Butterick , a New Zealand politician Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
32-453: A holiday or season). They also featured play ideas (items to make), and on teaching morals and values. The series did not have a fashion focus as did The Delineator, but was more general in outlook. Each issue offered some kind of prize or reward and a Deli-Club membership card. The series did not contain advertising. Robert Bass Robert Muse Bass (born 19 March 1948 ) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He
48-914: A trustee of the Brookings Institution , a trustee of Rockefeller University , Groton School , Middlesex School , and the Amon Carter Museum . Bass and his wife Anne donated $ 13 million to fund the renovation of Yale's Cross Campus Library, which was renamed the Bass Library . In 2005, they donated $ 30 million to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2013, they donated $ 50 million to Duke University to support Bass Connections, an initiative to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and studies. In 2001, Bass and his wife donated $ 10 million to Duke to strengthen undergraduate teaching. They also donated $ 10 million in 1996 to establish
64-582: A worldwide enterprise selling patterns as far away as Paris, London, Vienna and Berlin, with 100 branch offices and 1,000 agencies throughout the United States and Canada. In 1903, the company built the Butterick Building at Spring Street and MacDougal Street (now Sixth Avenue ) in Manhattan . The building, which still stands, is 16 stories tall and has an additional two stories underground. Parts of
80-480: Is Sid Richardson . Bass attended The Governor's Academy , and graduated from Yale University , where he received a bachelor of arts degree. He received a master in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business . Bass's father founded Bass Brothers Enterprises in 1960 after inheriting $ 11 million from his great uncle Sid W. Richardson in 1959. In 1985, Robert Bass founded
96-461: The Plaza Hotel to Donald Trump , thanks to their mutual friend Tom Barrack . In April 1988, he led a buy-out of Bell & Howell . In June 1988, Bass made an offer to purchase Macmillan Inc., the publishing and information company, but the company responded with a restructuring. Bass formerly served as chairman of the board at Aerion Supersonic , a developer of supersonic business jets. Bass
112-660: The Bass Society of Fellows at Duke. They also contributed to the creation of Bass Hall in Downtown Fort Worth (performing arts venue located in Fort Worth, Texas that routinely hosts musical and theatrical performances). Bass is married to Anne T. Bass. They have four children. One daughter, Margaret, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article as an example of a student whose wealth and family connections helped her receive admission to an elite university. They reside in
128-625: The Robert M. Bass Group as his personal investment company. In 1990, it was renamed Keystone, Inc., after the Keystone Field in West Texas from which the Bass family derived their fortune. He founded Oak Hill Capital Partners as a family office in 1986. In April 1987, Bass and other owners of TFBA Limited Partnership bought and took private Taft Broadcasting for $ 1.43 billion. In March 1988, Bass sold
144-721: The building interior were designed by Louis Tiffany , and it housed the second largest printing plant in the world (second only to the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.). In 1926, S.R. Latshaw was president of the Butterick Publishing Co. One of Butterick's subsidiary companies was the Ridgway Company, which they purchased in 1909 and published the pulp magazines Romance , Everybody's Magazine and Adventure . In 1961, Butterick licensed
160-412: The middle of February 2016. These continued to be sold from fabric and sewing-supplies stores like Jo-Ann Fabrics and Hancock Fabrics; Walmart commenced to offer them as well. Butterick also published a series of pamphlets for children titled The Little Delineator. Designed for both boys and girls, the pamphlets featured eight pages of stories, artwork and contests. Each issue focused on a theme (often
176-526: The name and trademark Vogue Patterns from Condé Nast Publications, Inc. and purchased its pattern division. The company was purchased in 1967 by American Can Company and became a subsidiary renamed the Butterick Fashion Marketing Co. In the 1970s, sewing lost popularity and sales began to suffer. In 1983 Butterick's management group headed by Bill Wilson and John Lehmann purchased the company from American Can Company . William Proctor Wilson
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#1733093780427192-544: The spring of 1867, E. Butterick and Co. began publishing Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions . In 1868, the monthly magazine The Metropolitan began publication. Both magazines were aimed at women and served as a means to sell Butterick paper patterns via mail order . In 1873, the two magazines were merged into a single publication, The Delineator . The magazine served as a marketing tool for Butterick patterns and discussed fashion and fabrics, including advice for home sewists. By 1876, E. Butterick & Co. had become
208-522: The title Butterick . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Butterick&oldid=1195016682 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Butterick Publishing Company In
224-458: Was replaced by Tom Vice as chairman upon the announcement of a partnership between Boeing and Aerion on February 5, 2019. Bass has served as chairman of Stanford University 's board of trustees, Stanford Management Company, the National Trust for Historic Preservation , and Cook Children’s Medical Center . He is a trustee of Stanford University, a director of Stanford Management Company,
240-648: Was the chairman of Aerion Corporation , an American aerospace firm in Reno, Nevada . In 2018, he had a net worth of $ 5 billion. Bass has served on the Texas Highway & Public Transportation Commission . Robert Muse Bass was born on 19 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas . His father, Perry Richardson Bass , was an investor, philanthropist and sailor. His mother, Nancy Lee Bass , was a philanthropist. He has three brothers: Lee Marshall Bass , Ed Bass , and Sid Bass . His uncle
256-417: Was the first chief executive officer of the privatized Butterick. In 1988 management sold approximately 60 percent of the company to Robert Bass 's Acadia Investors . In 1988 Wilson was succeeded as chief executive officer by John Lehmann. In 2001, The McCall Pattern Company acquired Butterick and Vogue Patterns, and it still continued printing and marketing sewing patterns in and under all three lines as of
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