Mastodawn

I keep coming back to this fabulous 1885 catalog from specialty printer, McNeil Bros: https://archive.org/details/specimensofdrugg00mcne/page/n3/mode/2up

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Finally pulled one of the labels for a @FontsInUse post: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/76220/j-adolph-boyken-face-powder-label Four of these typefaces hadn’t yet appeared in a Use on the site.

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J. Adolph Boyken Face Powder label

McNeil Bros. was a San Jose printer specializing in labels. Their 1885 catalog, Specimens of Druggist Labels…, is an explosion of eccentric type and ornament in fancy frames, offering hundreds of examples of artistic printing from the real world. This label combines seven very

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@typographica Four more debutants (Belgian, Cloister, French Clarendon Shaded, Kitcat) from the same period, on the business card of John P. Schaum, plumber from Lancaster, Pennsylvania: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/76330/john-p-schaum-business-card

John P. Schaum business card

This is a nineteenth-century advertising trade card for John P. Schaum, gas fitter and plumber, whose business was locgated in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The other side of the card features an illustration with a rabbit and flowers. Chandeliers, Coal Oil Lamps, and Gas Fixtures.

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