1 Block Of Printing Type
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Sep 1962
name: label: Donor Name
content: John White
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Small block of metal letters, a sample of the first proofs of a 16,000 piece font of a new type face for printing of Cherokee books, etc. in italic face because their writing [is] quite slanted. signed after one of Eric Gill's types, by Torvald Faegre, a student at Roosevelt University, Chicago. Matrices cut by Triangle Type Foundry, Chicago, and engraved by Walter Malowski. Operations supervised by donor. Cost of whole job about $175 supplied by Am. C. of Learned Societies." Script is Cherokee Syllabary.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 242882
label: USNM Number
content: E400096-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Printing Type