KDA Industrial Product Design Records
Scope and Contents
This collection includes designs, drawings, documents, concepts, prototypes, press releases, logos, mailing material, correspondence, and miscellaneous material related to the KDA Industrial Product Design Company. This material primarily details ideas for new products, many of which the company designed for specific clients. These items also document routine business tasks of KDA Design like corresponding with clients, preparing mailings, and designing a company webpage.
Dates
- 1959 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
KDA Design opened its doors in 1947 in Addison, Illinois. The company specializes in designing industrial products for a variety of clients and markets from creation through startup production. Additionally KDA Design performs research and studies for clients in order to design competitive products.
Extent
82 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
General
The finding aid inventory provided with the initial deposit includes many typographical errors. Errors have been corrected in ArchivesSpace when possible, but a few may still be present, especially in company and product names.
- Title
- Guide to the KDA Industrial Design Records
- Subtitle
- Record Group 1173
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Jaimie Kicklighter 06/25/2015, accession 14-052 inventory provided by donor. Record Group entered in ArchivesSpace by Lisa Glasscock.
- Date
- 10/22/2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
