A Directory Of The St Louis Book And Printing Trades To 1850
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A Directory of the St. Louis Book and Printing Trades to 1850
Author | : David Kaser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : |
Music Publishing in St. Louis
Author | : Ernst Christopher Krohn |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780899900438 |
Recasting a Craft
Author | : Robert A. Mullen |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780809326365 |
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, type for newspapers and books was set one letter at a time, and the manufacturers of the metal type used in the printing trade were called typefounders. This prominent yet rarely documented industry was essential to the development of modern American publishing and was particularly prevalent in St. Louis. In Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization, Robert A. Mullen recognizes the city's significant contributions to typefounding and details how the craft fundamentally changed through mechanization, growth, and the creation of a large conglomerate. Like many trades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that were eventually lost to industrialization, the typefoundries of St. Louis grew from small shops to factories with organized labor. Mullen describes three distinct periods of the industry that emerged in St. Louis's typefounding trade: the early struggles in establishing the industry there, the period of intense competition and creative enterprise, and the proliferation of new companies that appealed to those customers who felt alienated by the monopolizing older companies. Mullen discusses at length the technological, social, and demographic foundations of the immense growth of the trade in the nineteenth century, identifying the changes in typographical design and the demand for it in the new era of advertising. He also profiles the workers, working conditions, and labor issues--such as the failed industry-wide strike of 1903--that emerged as the craft of typefounding entered the industrial age. More than two hundred type designs that originated with the St. Louis firms are listed in an appendix with examples of each face. The volume also contains a list of the catalogs of the St. Louis typefoundries known to exist in the public and academic libraries of the United States.
Guide to the Study of United States Imprints
Author | : George Thomas Tanselle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Bibliographical literature |
ISBN | : 9780674367616 |
Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Author | : Lawrence O. Christensen |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826260161 |
Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.
Frontier Cities
Author | : Jay Gitlin |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812207572 |
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recovers the history of these urban places and shows how, from the start, natives and newcomers alike shared streets, buildings, and interwoven lives. Not only do frontier cities embody the earliest matrix of the American urban experience; they also testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history. The twelve essays in this collection paint compelling portraits of frontier cities and their inhabitants: the French traders who bypassed imperial regulations by throwing casks of brandy over the wall to Indian customers in eighteenth-century Montreal; Isaac Friedlander, San Francisco's "Grain King"; and Adrien de Pauger, who designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans. Exploring the economic and political networks, imperial ambitions, and personal intimacies of frontier city development, this collection demonstrates that these cities followed no mythic line of settlement, nor did they move lockstep through a certain pace or pattern of evolution. An introduction puts the collection in historical context, and the epilogue ponders the future of frontier cities in the midst of contemporary globalization. With innovative concepts and a rich selection of maps and images, Frontier Cities imparts a crucial untold chapter in the construction of urban history and place.
The Imprint Catalog in the Rare Book Division
Author | : New York Public Library. Rare Book Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Imprint |
ISBN | : |