Container Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in 1926 and manufactured

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es. In 1968 CCA merged with Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc., becoming MARCOR. MARCOR maintained separate management for the operations of each company, but had a joint

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. In 1986,

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, which had bought MARCOR in the early 1970s, sold the CCA company to the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, which merged with the Stone Container Corporation in 1998 to become part of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Under the leadership of

Walter Paepcke Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was a U.S. industrialist and philanthropist prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of ...

, CCA was a patron of graphic arts and design. The company amassed a collection of art works which eventually found their way to the

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. In the late 1940s, CCA commissioned

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to create a ''World Geo-Graphic Atlas'' which was distributed free to more than 150 colleges and universities. A review described it as the "handsomest and best atlas ever published in America."Review: [untitled] L. Ullman Reviewed work(s): ''World Geo-Graphic Atlas: A Composite of Man's Environment'' by Herbert Bayer IN: ''Geographical Review'', Vol. 45, No. 1 (January 1955), pp. 147–149
/ref> The Container Corporation of America headquarters were located in

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, in the United States.

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