Welcome to the second post in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library alphabet series! And the letter is…
- Frank was responsible for most of the illustrations and alphabets but it is also interlaced with layouts designed by other outstanding designers of the time. Frank Atkinson also produced a variety of additional books on sign painting—all good— but this one stands out of the group.'
- Atkinson Sign Painting by Frank H. Atkinson (1983, Hardcover, Reprint).
The ACD here at Erwin-Penland let me borrow this fantastic book on sign painting, 'Atkinson Sign Painting - A Complete Manual / Self Educational.' It is truly a find. It contains lessons on materials and process, many examples of signs and hand crafted advertisements, as well as my favorite - about seventy 'alphabets.' Chicago Tuscan Roman and its alternatives, 1937, Chicago. Update: The folks at okaytype.com point out this is from Frank Atkinson’s Sign Painting Manual. He called Chicago the “sign painting. Over 350 enthusiastic sign artisans from a half dozen countries turned out for the event September 23-27. The story of how a small group of apprentice sign painters in Denver began meeting weekly to swap ideas and learn traditional sign techniques came to symbolize a Renaissance in the industry that’s still underway.
B is for Broken Poster, which is one of 75 alphabets represented in Frank H. Atkinson’s Atkinson Sign Painting up to Now: A Complete Manual of Sign Painting. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1915 (not yet catalogued. Gift of Nicholas Curtis. Photograph by Petrina Jackson).
B is for born-digital
B is for “born-digital,” the term we use in the archival profession for materials that were created in a digital format. The library has been acquiring digital material since the 80’s, first on floppy disks, then CDs, now on hard drives, laptops, or even from the web. Born-digital material will only increase in the coming years and will be preserved alongside our books and manuscript collections.
Contributed by Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Archivist
Examples of 8″, 5.25″, 3.5″ floppy disks from the collections. (Photograph by Gretchen Gueguen)
An internal hard drive from a laptop computer manufactured ca. 1991, being imaged by the Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device (FRED). (Photograph by Gretchen Gueguen)
B is for Richard Brautigan
Atkinson Sign Painting Book
Richard Brautigan, best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America, was one of the seminal figures in the burgeoning San Francisco counterculture scene in the 1950s and ’60s. While never attaining mainstream success, his work was wildly popular among the anti-establishment crowd of the psychedelic era. A search of VIRGO, our online catalog, reveals 58 records related to Brautigan, including broadsides, chapbooks, posters, manuscripts, and books, such as Plant This Book with packets of seeds found inside the cover.
Contributed by George Riser, Collections and Instruction Assistant
Cover of Trout Fishing in America: A Novel by Richard Brautigan. The book was published in 1967. (PS3503 .R2736T6 1967. Gift of Marvin Tatum. Photograph by Petrina Jackson)
Cover of Please Plant This Book by Brautigan. Enclosed in the book are poem-covered packets of seeds. (PS3503 .R2736P54 1968, Gift of Marvin Taylor. Photograph by Petrina Jackson )
B is for the Bruce Family of “Berry Hill” Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit crack free download.
The Papers of the Bruce Family (MSS 2692, -a through -f) provide a window in time to 18th- and 19th-century southern plantation life. The family’s personal and business records include the operations of one of Virginia’s largest plantations and its influence on the South’s tobacco culture. Of particular interest are the lists and inventories of enslaved African Americans. Located in Halifax County, the Greek Revival mansion built by James Cole Bruce in 1842, “Berry Hill,” was the center of an agrarian economic and social community.
Contributed by Margaret Hrabe, Reference Coordinator
Berry Hill parlor, n.d. (Prints File. Photograph by Petrina Jackson)
Letterbook opened to a letter from “Berry Hill,” related to the tobacco crop. (MSS 2692-c. Photograph by Petrina Jackson)
List and Inventory of the Negroes (Men and Boys) on the Plantation of Messrs. Bruce, Seddon and Wilkins. St. James Parish, Louisiana, “Wilton” near Convent. November 22, 1849 (MSS 2692. Photograph by Petrina Jackson)
List and Inventory of the Negroes (Women, Girls, and Infants) on the Plantation of Messrs. Bruce, Seddon and Wilkins. St. James Parish, Louisiana, “Wilton” near Convent. November 22, 1849 (MSS 2692. Photograph by Petrina Jackson)
I hope you join us in a couple of weeks when the letter of interest is C. Until then, “C” you soon!
Barteldes was designed by James Puckett and published by Dunwich Type Founders. Barteldes contains 18 styles and family package options.Barteldes is a striking display type family that reimagines classic American letters for the twenty-first century. Barteldes is perfectly suited to editorial, advertising, and package design. Six weights can handle a wide range of headlines. Size-specific fonts maintain hairlines in small, medium, and large sizes. Swash capitals enliven words. And an expansive character set covers over 200 languages.
Atkinson Watercolor Paintings
Barteldes is based on American architectural lettering and sign painting. Capital letters were based on architectural lettering by the Denver architectural firm Gove & Walsh and built in 1906. Lowercase letters were based on exemplars in Frank Atkinson's classic manual 'Sign Painting Up to Now', published in 1909.
Font Family:
· Barteldes Small Extralight
· Barteldes Medium Extralight
· Barteldes Large Extralight
· Barteldes Small Light
· Barteldes Medium Light
· Barteldes Large Light
· Barteldes Small Book
· Barteldes Medium Book
· Barteldes Large Book
· Barteldes Small Medium
· Barteldes Medium Medium
· Barteldes Large Medium
· Barteldes Small Semibold
· Barteldes Medium Semibold
· Barteldes Large Semibold
· Barteldes Small Bold
· Barteldes Medium Bold
· Barteldes Large Bold
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Release date: August 31, 2018