Type specimen sheets and booklets
Collection
Identifier: Case Wing-Z250-A5
Scope and Content of the Collection
This is a growing collection of Type Specimen Sheets and Booklets issued from the 1870s onward.
The collection includes single sheet type specimens, type catalogs, booklets, posters, order forms, and other advertising materials originally issued by foundries, typesetters, and printers. Geographic ranges of these companies and individuals include the United States, Great Britain, and continental Europe. Significant amounts of material comes from American Type Founders Company, Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Bauersche Giesserei, Berthold Type Foundry, Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, Lanston Monotype Machine Company, Ludlow Typograph Company, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, and Monotype Corporation. Nearly 700 individual typefaces are represented in the collection, many in multiple formats. Aside from advertising materials, there are also a few examples of individual typefaces from sources other than printers, such as periodicals set in a particular type. Collection originally amassed by Ernst F. Detterer, the second Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, and continued by later Wing Collection curators
The collection includes single sheet type specimens, type catalogs, booklets, posters, order forms, and other advertising materials originally issued by foundries, typesetters, and printers. Geographic ranges of these companies and individuals include the United States, Great Britain, and continental Europe. Significant amounts of material comes from American Type Founders Company, Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Bauersche Giesserei, Berthold Type Foundry, Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, Lanston Monotype Machine Company, Ludlow Typograph Company, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, and Monotype Corporation. Nearly 700 individual typefaces are represented in the collection, many in multiple formats. Aside from advertising materials, there are also a few examples of individual typefaces from sources other than printers, such as periodicals set in a particular type. Collection originally amassed by Ernst F. Detterer, the second Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, and continued by later Wing Collection curators
Dates
- 1870-ongoing
Creator
- Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation (Organization)
Language
Materials are primarily in English, but also in French, German, and Spanish.
Conditions Governing Access
The Type specimen sheets and booklets are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Type specimen sheets and booklets are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Extent
12.1 Linear Feet (23 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Abstract
A collection of over 2500 type specimen sheets and other advertising materials issued by type foundries, typesetters, and printers that display typefaces, type families, or groups of types. Geographic coverage includes United States, Great Britain, and continental Europe.
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series
- Series 1: Individual Faces, 1920s-ongoing
- Boxes 1-16
- Series 2: Foundries and Type Houses, 1870-ongoing
- Boxes 17-23
- Series 3: Oversize, 1960-ongoing
- Box 1
Collection Stack Location
3a 29, 4 19 16 (oversize)
Accruals
The Newberry continues to add materials to this collection on a regular basis.
Processed by
Amanda Schriver and Lindsey O'Brien, 2014.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Services, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Advertisements
- Advertising -- Specimens
- American Type Founders Company
- Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment
- Bauersche Giesserei
- Berthold Type Foundry
- Borders (Type evidence)
- Detterer, Ernst Frederick
- Fonderies Deberny & Peignot
- Lanston Monotype Machine Company
- Ludlow Typograph Co
- Mergenthaler Linotype Company
- Monotype Corporation
- Printed ephemera
- Printing -- Catalogs
- Printing -- Specimens
- Trade catalogs
- Type and type-founding -- Specimens
- Type ornaments (Type evidence)
- Type specimens
- Typefaces (Type evidence)
Creator
- Newberry Library. John M. Wing Foundation (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Type specimen sheets and booklets, 1870-ongoing
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Amanda Schriver and Lindsey O'Brien.
- Date
- ©2014.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 7/23/2015: Revisions, additions, and updates were made.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org