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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Miscellaneous technical advertising matter, principally American, relating to printing and the book trade, assembled as part of a German study collection

About this Item

Title

  • Miscellaneous technical advertising matter, principally American, relating to printing and the book trade, assembled as part of a German study collection

Summary

  • Examples of German printing trade advertising, 1875-1890 include printers, press and equipment manufacturers, typefounders, engravers' ink manufacturers, paper manufacturers and related printing trade advertisements. Includes examples of marbling plates and actual texture cuts. Also includes American trade paper covers and printing history curiosities, 1879-1907 including flyer about the Ramage printing press that printed Confederate bills during the American Civil war; rural newspaper office in Florida and 1893 World's Fair souvenir. Includes examples of Chaos type, introduced by J.F. Earhart in New York in 1883, masthead examples of American printers technical journals American Model Printer, The American Arts Printer and the Superior Printer from 1879-1891 and an engraved portrait of A.W. Haight. Includes actual dies cut from celluloid including engraved cuts by A.M. Watzulik.

Names

  • Watzulik, Albin Maria, 1849-1930.
  • Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DLC, former owner
  • Graphic Design Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Created / Published

  • 1875-1907.

Contents

  • (from handwritten captions): Diverse Drucksachen 1875-1890 -- Von J.F. Earhart in New York zuerst eingeführte Chaosplatten, 1883 -- Amerikanische Arbeiten aus den 1880er Jahren -- Amerikanische Drucksachen -- Amerikanische Drucksachen aus den 1880er Jahren -- Mäser-Tonplatte-Schnitt -- 1880er Amerikanische Drucksachen -- Ältere amerkanische Reklamekarten u. Inserate -- Abbildungen: Handpresse Washingtons. Waldruckerei in Florida. -- 1880-1885 [Berger-Wirth price lists] -- Umsläge [!] und Kopftitel amerikanische Fachzeitschriften -- Wie die Amerikaner die Linien ornamental herstellen -- C.E. Bartholomew 1880's New Yorker Akzidenzen -- 1893 Schriftgiesserei C.F. Rühl in Leipzig -- Mäser-Tonplatten-Gravüren von A.M. Watzulik.

Headings

  • -  Printing--Germany--Specimens
  • -  Printing--United States--Specimens
  • -  Type and type-founding--Germany--Specimens
  • -  Type and type-founding--United States--Specimens
  • -  Printing plates--Specimens
  • -  Printing industry--Germany--1870-1910
  • -  Printing industry--United States--1870-1910

Format Headings

  • Advertisements--1870-1910.
  • Clippings--1870-1910.
  • Ephemera--1870-1910.
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--1870-1910.
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1870-1910.
  • Montages--1870-1910.
  • Printing plates--1890-1910.

Genre

  • Advertisements--1870-1910
  • Montages--1870-1910
  • Ephemera--1870-1910
  • Clippings--1870-1910
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1870-1910
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--1870-1910
  • Printing plates--1890-1910

Notes

  • -  Handwritten captions in German on sheets. Items are printed in either English or German.
  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Items measure 25 x 66 cm. or smaller.
  • -  Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : 1955, no. 266
  • -  Confiscated from the Arbeitsfront, Berlin, by U.S. military intelligence authorities in 1945-1946.
  • -  Forms part of: Graphic Design Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Item count formerly ca. 500 items.

Medium

  • ca. 375 items on 15 sheets ; 69 x 49 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 4129 (H) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005688661

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Watzulik, Albin Maria, Dlc Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and Graphic Design Collection Dlc. Miscellaneous technical advertising matter, principally American, relating to printing and the book trade, assembled as part of a German study collection. Germany United States, 1875. to 1907. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005688661/.

APA citation style:

Watzulik, A. M., Deutsche Arbeitsfront, D. & Graphic Design Collection Dlc. (1875) Miscellaneous technical advertising matter, principally American, relating to printing and the book trade, assembled as part of a German study collection. Germany United States, 1875. to 1907. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005688661/.

MLA citation style:

Watzulik, Albin Maria, Dlc Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and Graphic Design Collection Dlc. Miscellaneous technical advertising matter, principally American, relating to printing and the book trade, assembled as part of a German study collection. to 1907. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005688661/>.