Elrie Robinson collection. Type specimens, circa 1950s.

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Elrie Robinson collection. Type specimens, circa 1950s.

Broadsides, pamphlets, and business cards printed in several Victorian type specimens by Elrie Robinson. Pamphlets advertise printing work and publications available from Elrie Robinson.

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Robinson, Elrie

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Publisher and job printer of St. Francisville, Louisiana. From the guide to the Elrie Robinson papers, 1934-1946, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Elrie Robinson was born in Alvarado, Tex., on May 17, 1883 and arrived in New Orleans in 1906. He first married May E. Leake, editor and publisher of the St. Francisville True Democrat, which she and W.W. Leake had founded in 1893. Robinson joined her in publishing the newspaper in 1908 and became ...