Hermann Ihlenburg papers, 1803-1906 (inclusive), 1866-1905 (bulk)

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Hermann Ihlenburg papers, 1803-1906 (inclusive), 1866-1905 (bulk)

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The Hermann Ihlenburg Papers spans the period from 1803 through 1906 and contains correspondence, photographs, letterform drawings, printed ephemera, and other documents relating to the career of the German-American type designer and punchcutter Hermann Ihlenburg (1843-1905). The collection holds some of Ihlenburg's personal papers, portrait photographs, personal sketchbooks, and a commonplace book from the mid-1860s. The bulk of the collection is hundreds of original drawings for type fonts and ornamental borders, type specimen sheets, and a scrapbook of nineteenth-century ephemera featuring fancy typefaces. Other papers includes a group of early nineteenth-century wash drawings of scenes in Germany.

1.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7944207

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Hermann Ihlenburg, a German-American type designer who specialized in ornamental fonts and borders, was born in Berlin in 1843, and received training in drawing and painting there. He was apprenticed to the Trowitzsch & Son type foundry in Berlin, and then worked as a punchcutter in Dresden and at the G. Haase & Sons foundry in Prague. After positions at the Flinsch foundry in Frankfurt, the Battenburg foundry in Paris, and the Fonderie Haas in Basel, Ihlenburg moved to the United States...

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