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Lanston, Tolbert

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1844 - 1913

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Graphic Communications Through the Ages: Kimberly-Clark paintings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0018
Overview

The collection consists of 24 paintings illustrating the history methods for illustrating the written word developed between 950 B.C. and the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1966-1971
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype, 1897, 1966-1971

 Item — Painting 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: "Graphic Communications Through the Ages" commemorates significant milestones in the history of communications technologies: the development of paper and character forms, typography design, and printing. The paintings were commissioned in 1966 by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, who employed three internationally-known historical illustrators to produce the series: Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish, Jr.(1930-1992)....
Dates: 1966-1971
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection / Graphic Communications Through the Ages: Kimberly-Clark paintings

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Archival Record 1
Collection 1
 
Subject
Alphabet -- History 1
Calligraphy 1
Graphic arts -- History 1
Illustrations 1
Incunabula -- Italy 1
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Inscriptions -- History 1
Letterpress printing -- History 1
Lithography -- History 1
Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection 1
Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection -- Art collections 1
Newspaper publishing -- History 1
Offset lithography 1
Oil paintings (visual works) 1
Papermaking -- History 1
Papermaking machinery -- History 1
Photoengraving -- Halftone process 1
Picture-writing 1
Press and politics -- United States -- History -- 18th century 1
Printing -- History 1
Printing -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Printing presses -- History 1
Printing presses in art 1
Publishers and publishing -- History 1
Stereotyping (Printing) -- History 1
Type and type-founding -- History 1
Type and type-founding -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Type and type-founding in art 1
Typefounding matrices -- History 1
Typesetting -- United States -- History 1
Typesetting machines -- 1880-1920 1
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