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Typefounding matrices -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

American Type Founders Company Bodoni Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0163
Overview

The American Type Founders Company Bodoni Drawings collection contains original working drawings used in the design and manufacture of the typeface ATF Bodoni released in 1909.

Dates: 1911
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Bixler Press and Letterfoundry collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0149
Scope and Contents

The collection contains material created by the Bixler Press and Letterfoundry in Skaneateles, New York. This establishment was started in 1973 by Winifred “Winnie” (Gray) Bixler ’69 (RIT Art and Design), and Michael Bixler ’69 (RIT Printing). It includes printed type specimens and ephemera, typeface drawings and negatives, and typographic realia like metal patterns and matrices.

Dates: 1966-2020
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Geofroy Tory and Simone de Colines, 1525, 1966-1971

 Item — Painting 9
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

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

Johann Gutenberg and Movable Type, 1455, 1966-1971

 Item — Painting 6
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

Joseph Blumenthal collection on Spiral type

 Collection
Identifier: CSC-0042
Overview

The collection consists of material used in the creation of Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral type, with related ephemera.

Dates: 1931 - 1940
Found in: Cary Graphic Arts Collection