Oswald Bruce Cooper papers, 1913-1940.

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Oswald Bruce Cooper papers, 1913-1940.

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Art work for type designs; art boards, proofs and finished advertising pieces; and limited correspondence, all from the period after the foundation of the Bertsch & Cooper advertising firm. The correspondence is mostly with Richard N. McArthur, and concerns Cooper's work as a type designer for the Barnhart Bros. and Spindler type foundry in Chicago. There is also a file on patent cases of 1926-1928, and Cooper's testimony before Congress on the originality of typefaces.

9.7 linear feet (5 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 record carton)

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Barnhart Brothers & Spindler

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McArthur, Richard N.

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Frederic William Goudy (1865-1947) was a type designer and author. He started the Village Press near Chicago, later moved to Massachusetts, and finally to Marlboro, New York. In 1923 he purchased Deepdene, a pre-Revolutionary mill in Marlboro, where he set up his press. In 1939 fire destroyed the Village Press for the second time and Goudy, at age 74, did not try to reestablish it. He continued designing and also lectured at Syracuse University. Deepdene was also a wildlife sanctuary, and in 194...

Bertsch & Cooper.

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Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940

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Chicago lettering artist, advertising designer and type designer; creative partner of the firm of Bertsch & Cooper, 1913-1940. Cooper was educated at the Frank Holme School in Chicago. He is best known for his Cooper Black and Cooper Bold typefaces, among the most successful advertising types of the twentieth century. He was a founding member of the 27 Chicago Designers and of the Society of Typographic Arts, which produced a retrospective tribute to him, The Book of...