Designed by Will Ranson (1878-1955) and cast by the Chicago firm Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, the Parsons Series became a smash hit. ...

On November 17, 1983, the ACLU issued a thoroughly researched and persuasively argued release, demanding an end to the deportations of Salva...

At the end of July 1914, on the outbreak of World War I, banker George Thomas Marye (1849–1933) walked into San Francisco’s temporary city ...

Today's Type Tuesday is a bit of a mystery as the text in the type specimen is in Danish. Published in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1901 typog...

Newly cataloged are the records of the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company, which operated the Kennedy Mine near Jackson in Amador County, C...

One of the many treasures held within the California Historical Society's Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing is a vast...

Last week I discovered this faded Civil War letter, written by the poet Charles Follen Adams to his brother John Swasey Adams while Charles ...

Last Tuesday we featured Rudolf Koch's Kabel series, a straightforward type displayed by European Typefounders Inc. in decidedly mal...

This delightful stock certificate was issued by the California Aeronautic Company in 1876 and illustrated by the African American artist and...

The Kabel Series was designed by German Rudolf Koch in 1927 and originally released by the Klingspor Foundry. Here it is offered by the Euro...