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Box 5

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Contains 104 Results:

specimen sheet for Jenson Heavyface type

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 1
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundry, Chicago - ad sheet for job faces (type), 1893

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents

part of American Type Founders Co.

Dates: 1893
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

clipping from Chicago Herald giving financial statement of American Type Founders Co., 1892

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 3
Dates: 1892
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

pamphlet with specimens of Jenson Old-Style type

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 4
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Boston Type Foundry - specimen sheet for new faces

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents

part of American Type Founders Co.

Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Boston Type Foundry - card advertising rule work done at foundry

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 6
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Benton., Waldo & Co. Type Founders, Milwaukee - business card

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 7
Scope and Contents

part of American Type Founders Co.

Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Benton., Waldo & Co. Type Founders, Milwaukee - catalog entitled "Benton's Self-spacing Type"[31pp.], 1890

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 8
Dates: 1890
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Central Type Foundry, St. Louis - specimen sheet of new type faces 

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 9
Scope and Contents

part of American Type Founders Co.

Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Central Type Foundry, St. Louis - specimen sheet for Epitaph type faces

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 10
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Central Type Foundry, St. Louis - business card with name of Schraubstadter & St. John agents? at bottom

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 11
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

American Press Association Series (n.d.), specimen sheet for type named Schoeffer Old Style [l4pp], specimen catalog, 1897

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 12
Dates: 1897
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

Priory Text types (quasi-Gothic, for religious publications), specimen sheet, 2 copies

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 13
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

specimen brochure of silhouettes

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 14
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

specimen brochure of "mural ornaments" 

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 15
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

"Facts for Printers" including specimens of foreign-language type faces (Greek, Russian, Hebrew, etc.), pamphlet

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 16
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

specimen brochure featuring "scorchers", figures riding bicycles, for advertising printing

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 17
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

pamphlet of specimens of Florentine Old-Style Series , 1896

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 18
Dates: 1896
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

reprint of articles in The Journalist (New York) stating American Type Founders is a trust, with rebuttal from ATF - sheet circulated by ATF (, 1892

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 19
Dates: 1892
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)

folder listing officers, manufacturing foundries, branches, and agents of American Type Founders Co.

 Item — Box: 5
Identifier: Item 20
Dates: 1866-1934
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection / TYPE FOUNDRIES AND AGENTS / American Type Founders Company, New York City (49 items)