Type and type-founding -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Frederic W. Goudy collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0008
Scope and Contents
The Frederic W. Goudy collection contains materials from 1867 through 1964, with the bulk of the papers dated between 1920 and 1947.This collection contains materials related to the life of printer, typographer, and type designer Frederic W. Goudy includes print items, proofs, manuscripts, type patterns and drawings, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and realia.Items of note include photographs of the Goudys in their home and workshop at Marlborough,...
Dates:
1867-1964; Majority of material found within circa 1920-1947
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