Letterform face-off across West O’Reilly Street in Presidio, Texas. #letterforms #SignPainting

Some noodling on the RISO w/ all variants of Wm H Page & Co’s Gothic Paneled — 1st shown in its 1874 _Specimen of Chromatic Wood Type…_ and patented on 3 March 1874 as US Design Patent 7,230.
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/chromatic-gothic-paneled/

Happy Birthday, William Thomas Morgans, born July 2, 1844. He was one of the dominant producers & innovators of wood type in the US in the late 1870s, serving as the founding partner of the wood type companies Young & Morgans (1876) and later Morgans & Wilcox Mfg Co (1880).

I’ve updated the list of Rob Roy Kelly’s 1964 folio w/ newly located copies http://www.woodtyperesearch.com No 5, in a private collection, was Kelly’s personal copy, recently consigned by his daughter.
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Darius Wells born 26 April 1800 Kingsboro, NY. Invented the router (lateral revolving cutting tool) to make the 1st machine cut #WoodType in 1828. An active abolitionist he ran a station on the underground railroad in Patterson, NJ helping enslaved humans move north to Canada to live as free humans.

Accidental typographic palimpsest, encountered in Special Collections at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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HBD Henry P Hamilton born 21 Apr 1862 youngest of 3 brothers, worked with older brthr George at _The Detroit Record_ as a printer & then with oldest brthr James at Hamilton & Baker, later Hamilton Mfg Co Credited patents USD37308 & 37309 http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/hamilton-mfg-672-673 #WoodType

HBD! Horatio Nelson Bill born in Lebanon, Conn., USA, March 25, 1824. He worked as a sign painter before cutting wood type for Edwin Allen (w/ brother Jeremiah). They formed their own wood type co., H & J Bill (1850), then Bill, Stark & Co (1853), closed in 1854, & was sold to Wm. H. Page in 1856.

Happy Birthday William Hamilton Page,born in Tilton, NH, USA, March 14, 1829. Images shown here from his co’s 1878 specimen catalog, slightly repurposed from 1867.

More at www.woodtyperesearch.com/william-hamilton-page/

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A few textures encountered while looking at type specimen catalogs held at the Smithsonian’s National American History Museum, and at the Library of Congress. File under: 2-jam-packed-days in DC.

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