Typography Collection (page 3)

Religious verse with flowers on a Christmas card
Religious verse with yellow flowers, red berries and two butterflies on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Decorative Christmas page design, holly and mistletoe
Decorative page design with a border of holly and mistletoe, Christmas Cards & Christmas Carols by Alfred Crowquill. Date: circa 1860s

Booklet cover, Christmas Carol arranged for four voices
Booklet cover in medieval illuminated manuscript style, Christmas Carol arranged for four voices. Date: circa 1880s

Booklet cover, Our Goose, a Christmas Legend. Date: circa 1880s

Booklet cover, Shall We Gather At The River, the title of a popular American hymn written in 1864. Date: circa 1880s

Business card, Calton Bar, Kobe, Japan
Business card for the Calton (or Carlton) Bar, Sannomiyacho, Kobe, Japan, the finest place in town, with service by more than a dozen beautiful girls

Youth club poster, Beatles night
Youth club poster advertising a Beatles night, alerting the girls in particular to the fact that four Beatle badges must be won. Details will be broadcast on Radio Glastonbury at 8pm. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, Maidenhead
Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, High Street, Maidenhead, with some amazing temporary reductions to three shillings and sixpence, and a four-day turnaround. Date: 20th century

Advertising leaflet for photographic services, offering to produce enlargements for half price during the winter months, as well as postcard reproduction. Date: 20th century

Dutch Dolls ABC
Alphabet made up out of wooden Dutch Dolls Date: 1930s

MɒIMɅ, Prosper (1803-1870). French novelist, playwright
Mɒ IMɅ, Prosper (1803-1870). French novelist, playwright, essayist and Hispanist. Title page of Colomba, 1840. Publication created in Leipzig

God Save the King 1
Black and white lantern slide of the first verse of the National Anthem. Roman typography with a Gothic style title. Part of Box 195 entitled Curtains & Flags Date: circa 1911

God Save the King 2
Black and white lantern slide of the third verse of the National Anthem. Roman typography style.. Part of Box 195 entitled Curtains & Flags Date: circa 1911

Public Library Sign
Public Library sign made from terracotta tiles. Forest Hill Library built 1900. Date: 2011

Poster, Rally Round the Flag, Every Fit Man Wanted. Recruitment poster for the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1915

Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1948

Fruit Label -- text
Fruit Label -- Fine oranges for beautiful girls, red oranges for red lips and no lipstick required, all done by the vitamines [sic] of these oranges. Date: 20th century

Johann Operinus
JOHANN OPERINUS (or OPORINUS) German/Swiss scholar, professor of linguistics and typography. Date: ? - 1568

Newport, Isle of Wight - Greetings from ladies of Newport ! Date: 1907

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1940

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Hollywood, California Date: circa 1940

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Date: circa 1940

Spain (1910). Solidaridad Obrera, publication
" Spain (1910). " Solidaridad Obrera", publication of the Labour Societies. Cover with the news of the Labour National Congress (Barcelona, 4th November 1910)."

PUJADES, Jer󮩭o (1568-1635). Soanish lawyer
" PUJADES, Jer󮩭 o (1568-1635). Soanish lawyer and historian. Main page of the " Semanario Hist󲩣 o Erudito"."

Cover design, Deruluft timetable
Cover design, Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, LVG), serving Berlin and Moscow. circa 1934

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

Burradon Colliery mining disaster
Report in the Illustrated London News, 10th March 1860, describing the terrible coal mining accident which occurred on 2nd March of that year at Burradon Colliery near Newcastle when a fatal

Grand Centrifugal Railway
Advertising flyer for the Grand Centrifugal Railway, an Extraordinary Novelty, 200 feet long, with a Virtical (sic) Circle, upwards of 40 feet in circumference

Writing Examples
Examples of capital letters as they were supposed to be in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Alphabets & Typography
Various examples of Russian alphabets and german typography from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Poster advertising National Parks for winter sports
Poster designed by Dorothy Waugh, advertising Americas National Parks for winter sports

Poster advertising the 1938 BIF
Poster advertising the 1938 British Industries Fair, London and Birmingham, 21 February to 4 March

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