Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Type Tuesday - Greco Adornado, Erbar and Sylvan types

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Continental Typefounders Association Inc.'s "titling letters" in Greco Adornado, Erbar and Sylvan. ...

Louise Todd Lambert

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The California Historical Society is home to a wonderful collection of oral histories, recorded in the 1970s, documenting the lives and acti...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Uncovering History through Art and Artifacts: Japanese Internment

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Siberius Y. Saito (1908–1980), The Guard Tower , ca. 1942, photographic copy print California Historical Society, CHS.Saito.008. ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Two Women atop Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome

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Two Women atop Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome.  California Historical Society, CHS2013.1460

Labor in San Francisco – Before and After 1915

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Sixty years after “the world rushed in” to California seeking gold in 1849, the working men and women of San Francisco responded to the...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Type Tuesday - Timely Typography

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Your Type Tuesday correspondent has been smitten with a recent donation of contemporary type specimens and ephemera!  You may have ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

MS Monday—PPIE Part 7: The John Howell Exhibit and a newly cataloged Kemble manuscript

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A recently re-discovered and cataloged gem from the California Historical Society’s Kemble collection is the John Howell exhibit guest book...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

League of American Wheelmen Century Run

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L.A.W. (League of American Wheelmen) Century Run , 6-1-1890. California Historical Society, CHS2009.187.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Type Tuesday - William H. Price

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William H. Price type foundry goes mod for their Windsor type series! Jaime Henderson Archivist jhenderson@calhist.org ...
Monday, May 11, 2015

MS Monday—PPIE Part 6: More from the Mooney papers

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Another, strange connection between the Panama Pacific International Exposition and the Preparedness Day Bombing of July 22, 1916, is revea...