Object Details
- Donor Name
- John White
- 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.
- Record Last Modified
- 19 Feb 2021
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Cherokee
- Accession Date
- 11 Sep 1962
- Accession Number
- 242882
- USNM Number
- E400096-0
- Object Type
- Printing Type
- Place
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8428778
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e75cf267-1483-44fd-8cf0-1c6ab483f75b
