#20th century type

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

KEYSTONE INTIALS AND CUTS

The Keystone Type Foundry was established in Philadelphia in 1888 and operated independently until 1917 when it became one of the many foundries absorbed by American Type Founders. These cast and electrotyped initials and cuts are from the foundry's Catalogue and Specimen Book Keystone Products Consisting of Type, Material Furniture Complete Line of Miscellaneous Supplies for Printers and Publishers published in Philadelphia in 1910. All the initials and cuts shown here were designed by Keystone's own staff except for the Meridale and Lotus Initials which were licensed to Keystone.

This catalogue was copy No. 5351 and according to its bookplate was the property of Keystone and was only lent out, not sold or given, to a printer/publisher, and was expected to be returned "intact and in good condition, reasonable wear expected." Someone clearly did not follow those instructions, as several specimens have been cut from the catalogue's pages as can be seen in the Caslon Bold Page Ornaments.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Keystone Type Foundry #Catalogue and Specimen Book Keystone Products #type specimen books #type display books #type specimens #Initials #printing cuts #electrotyping #cast type #20th century type

[ltwilliammowett]

Rigs and Ship Types

#naval history #rigs #ship types #16th-20th century #infographic #age of sail #age of steam

[visenyaism]

Do you think Tony Soprano was a true psychopath or did he have something else going on mentally?

psychopath suggests he’s abnormal and you cannot say that when he is the exact same flavor of violent, insecure about masculinity, racist, clinging onto imagined idealized tradition, father issues, misogynistic, suuuuper paranoid about being cucked evil that like. most conservative men (and all fascist men) have. it’s just most tony sopranos become cops or republican state senators and not mobsters

#alí and i both wrote our theses on early 20th century ethnonationalism so when tony started talking about retvrning to italy it was like. #well we know this exact type of guy nothing remarkable about that

[fictionadventurer]

Many men had offered her many things in the past, love and friendship, luxury and jewels, entertainment, dogs, amusements, homage--some she had accepted, some refused, but no man before had offered her work. Peter had offered her that, he had offered her a share of his--not noble or inspiring or fascinating work, just his work, what he had. He had offered it her, called her great energies into play, and set her to work beside himself in a furrow. And she was glad; for some reason she found it very good.

--Desire by Una Lucy Silberrad

#books #jo walton has done it again #almost the only reason i ever look at tor.com these days is to read her monthly roundup of the books she's read #because a good chunk of her reading is the type of classics i love #including a lot of forgotten light classics of the early 20th century #this was one of those #mentioned in a column from last year that i happened to read the other day #with a review that said this should be one of those classics that everyone knows and reads #instead of being this completely forgotten book #and since it happened to be on hoopla (a common perk of these types of book recs from her) i read it #i don't think it's all-time classic great #but it's a solid middlebrow novel #the beginning was a bit of rough going but after the major part of the plot kicked off it become rather lovely #because there was a lot of the above #explorations of the value of work and friendships and relationships #and because of things like the above quote the central relationship is one of my favorite romances of the year #it's a solid relationship built on friendship and mutual respect #with both of them having stories and emotional journeys beyond the romance #reminded me a little bit of gaskell in some ways

[stardial]

i was really curious about when the last time someone got excommunicated was. turns out it was last month

#in hindsight it feels obvious but i really thought it would be the type of thing that woudlve ended after we entered like #the 20th century maybe #but they’re still out here excommunicating heretics etc etc #arambles

[providencepubliclibrary]

Seems like someone needs reading glasses

From O.I. Leman (Moscow) type specimen book, 1914

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#20th century #type specimens

[crustswamp]

#20th century women #my type #greta gerwig #hot

[dracolizardlars]

My mother taught me how to read Roman numerals when I was about 6 years old.

And now I use it to see what year the 19th century books my late father collected were published in so we can tell if they're first editions

#draco speaks #truly roman numerals are a heinous awful numbering system #fucking MCCCLXIV type shit #when you could have just typed 1864 and saved ink #I think most of the 20th century ones have the publication date in normal numbers thankfully

[revindicatedbyhistory]

makes me kind of mad that im an ancient greek history type of guy. im sorry...

#i mean really im more of a 20th century history type of guy but thats for political reasons #for purely historical ones im an ancient greek history guy

[frogs-in3-hills]

they did WHAT to souseki natsume????

#this is not about the real life 20th century japanese literary satirist. this is about the character from the great ace attorney chronicles. #sully is typing #dgs #aa musical 4

[prussianmemes]

i absolutely love seeing the comments section on a random video of a zoomer making a quirky tiktok video about how to recycle chicken bones into great bone meal fertilizer for your plants (something we've been doing forever) and seeing boomers with their sunglasses and polos in the comment section calling this disgusting unsanitary hippy liberal bullshit.

i don't think anyone can be a greater parody of themselves than anglosphere boomers. you are literally the most consumerist and blind sighted people on the planted, and you get upset over such a fundamental idea like recycling bones.

these are the same people who 'own' ecologist zoomers by posting photos of the english countryside (a completely sterile wasteland devoid of native fauna) to show those anti-traditional liberal hippies the what for.

#like these are the people who get who uppity about le societal decay and who are the biggest 'defender of are values and traditions...' #you people are freak abominations of the 20th century #free of any real hardships unlike anyone outside of the immediate western world #warped by a bastardized notion of what's 'traditional' #txt #they're also the type to have those faggoty monoculture backyard lawns #it's just #you people completely embody every single thing you claim to be against

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Specimen of Type Faces Monotype Linotype was produced ca. 1930 to display the range of typefaces used at the American Typesetting Corporation of Chicago, "the largest of its kind in the world," established in 1919. The plant operated 24 hours a day, offering day and night services. Their Monotype Department boasted ten keyboards and twelve casters, and their Linotype Department operated ten machines. The typefaces shown here are Goudy Old Style, Cloister Text (a Gothic face, not the Roman Cloister designed by Benton), Typewriter, Monotype Accents, and Copperplate Gothic.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #monotype #linotype #American Typesetting Corporatioin #Goudy Old Style #Copperplate Gothic #Cloister #Typewriter font #type setting #type composition #20th century type

[ltwilliammowett]

Ship types of the 15th- early 20th century 1 the gaff sail 2 the staysail 3 the lateen sail 4 the lugger sail 5 the spritsail 6 The tjalk 7 the centreboard (leeboard) 8 the cutter 9 and 10 one and a half masters 9 the ewer (ever) 10 the Curonian barge 11-13 The topsail schooner 11 the mainsail 12 the staysail 13 the jib

14 The schooner brig 15 the schooner mast with square sails 16 the fully rigged mast with square sails

17 the brig 18 the three-masted gaff schooner 19 the three-masted topsail schooner 20 the three-masted marsail schooner

21-23 The barque 21 the foremast 22 the mainmast 23 the mizzen mast

24-27 The full rig (ship) 24 the mizzen mast 25 the mizzen yard 26 the mizzen sail 27 the porten tape - a white line along the hull to imitate portholes 

28-31 Four-master 28 the four-masted gaff schooner 29 the four-masted barque 30 the cross jack 31 the four-masted full-rigged ship

32-34 The five-masted barque 32 the sky sail 33 the main mast 34 the mizzen-mast

35-37 Development of the sailing ships in 400 years 35 the five-masted full rigged ship Prussia, 1902-1910 36 the English clipper Spindrift, 1867 37 the caravel Santa Maria, 1492

#naval history #ship types #15th -20th century #age of discovery #age of sail #age of steam

[winterbirb]

The cultural idea of the "Feds" (specifically the FBI) is still deeply influenced by the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, despite the fact that he died half a century ago. The cultural perception has changed, but quite slowly, and at different speeds depending on region + generation, and with that comes a difference in trust in the "Feds."

A 70 year old from rural Kansas would have been 18 when Hoover died—for those first 18 formative years, Hoover was already long established as the director of FBI. A 50-year old might not remember Hoover, but will likely have grown up with direct references to him. A 30-year old doesn't even remember the Soviet Union, much less Hoover's anti-Communist overreach, but the cultural perception remains, a vestigial thing, even though by the 90s the FBI's main "political" operations were against white supremacist cults.

Even my own perception of who might think what is outdated—I'm relying on tropes and stereotypes from media up to 30 years old (TV shows from the mid-90s) that influenced me as a kid. But the world ages around me, even as the impressions in my head remain the same age. In 25 years, Vietnam vets will probably be as scarce as WW2 vets today. I grew up with Vietnam vets being a thing, but when I'm 50, the world will just look different, and I'll never be able to go back to one where "the Feds" bring up associations with Hoover's reign. That world is already slipping away.

#rambles #studying the 2nd half of the 20th century has me feeling a certain type of way

[gingerwerk]

Personally I’m glad that Mota is finally gonna start letting Lemay get the shit talking he deserves. He’s gotten off too good for far too long and we need to start giving him as much shit as MacArthur and Patton

#if there’s one thing about me is I am gonna Hate all the big name generals with a Passion #I was talking to my coworkers at the museum the other day how like yeah I technically #can be seen as boring or generic when I say I prefer to study wwii/20th century mil history #but I am Exclusively reading low level soldier memoirs and getting all the tea how they Hate x colonel and y general #I hate all authority types from CEOs to big name generals like all y’all are nasty ass bitches #Kelly watches Mota

[local-limebug]

i'm so out of it rn but apparently my eldest aunt's mother in law used to practice magic. in rural pakistan in the mid to early 20th centruy. she ran away from her village to marry the man she loved and was hated for it by the society around her. apparently people used to call her too cunning. she was also apparently famous in the villages nearby for her beauty.

i am really, really mad that i did not get to ever meet this woman.

#especially as someone who is now interested in paganism #like ancestral connection and magic are such an important part of the magicks and practices i've been looking into #and its always felt so difficult for me because i come from a muslim family and its like who the hell am i supposed to connect to?? #i dont share a drop of blood with this woman but my heart aches to know her anyway #she was famous for her beauty. her first husband died and she was forcibly married to his brother. #she ran away from that marriage and married a man she loved. she practiced magic and had children and everyone talked shit about her for #being too cunning but she just kept on going despite the hardship #and idk. i feel like i might be putting this woman who died well before i was born on some type of pedestal but like !!! #in rural punjab during the 20th century this woman fought for her life to not be taken from her #and idk. i wish i could have met her #i mean even if she was alive i probably wouldnt have since my family have cut ties with her family #because her son cheated on my aunt but i really really wish i had met this woman once #limebug.txt