49.5 linear feet of material consisting of correspondence, minutes, financial records, membership surveys and directories, event information, sound recordings, and other records of the American Center for Design, founded as the Society of Typographic Arts. Also present are ACD/STA material collected by Susan Jackson Keig, first woman president of the STA in 1955–1956, when she was Susan Karstrom, including typed reminiscences (from 1989) in which Keig describes STA meetings/field trips in the 1950s–1960s, including one to visit Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, a 1955 STA news release announcing Susan Karstrom's election as president, seven reel-to-reel audio tapes of STA conferences and discussions (1962–1963), and ACD membership mailings from 1991–1992. Includes phonograph record album, R. Buckminster Fuller thinks out loud, and tape recordings made at STA conferences, including tapes of John Berry and Eric Larabee.