Scrapbooks, 1925-1936.

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Scrapbooks, 1925-1936.

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Six bound scrapbook volumes containing prospectuses, advertisements, letterhead, announcements, printed type specimens, pamphlets, circular letters, price lists, press clippings, off-prints, photographs, and some correspondence, documenting the first decade of the firm Continental Typefounders Association. In addition to corporate history, the volumes show, through announcements, news clippings, and his published writings, Cary's national and international travels to lecture on type design, his encouragement of the incorporation of modern typefaces in advertising, and his lobbying to reduce the tariff on imports (1929-1930). The scrapbooks also contain a range of material on the life and work of type designer Frederic W. Goudy, whose Village Foundry typefaces were distributed exclusively through the Continental Typefounders Association.

1.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Continental Typefounders Association

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McMurtrie, Douglas C. 1888-1944

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Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff, 1892-1941

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Melbert Brinkerhoff Cary Jr. (1892-1941) was born in New York, educated at Groton School and Yale University (Class of 1916), and died in New York. He was director of Continental Type Founders Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and proprietor of the private Press of the Woolly Whale. From the description of Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection, 1895-1986. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 746849993 Frederic W. Goudy founded the Village ...

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947

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Frederic William Goudy was an American type designer. After a career in real estate, he began his career as a type designer at 40 and created over 120 type styles including University of California Oldstyle, exclusively for the University of California Press, and Goudy Old Style. Goudy founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom and was the Art Director for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company from 1920 until his death in 1947. From the description of Frederic W. Goudy collection, ...

Continental Typefounders Association, Inc.

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The Continental Typefounders Association, Inc. was organized in New York City in 1925 by Melbert B. Cary Jr. Its aim was to import from Europe the best new designs in type, initials, borders, and ornaments being developed by foundries on the continent, but cast to American type height and using the American point system primarily so that designers and printers in the United States could use fresh and modern faces for commercial advertising. Officers included Cary as president, Dougl...