Japanese washi figurines from the 1998

This month’s Artifact of the Month, the last of 2020, is all about a year-in-review; it is an original Saturday Evening Post from 1954.

This month’s artifact is from our permanent exhibit; it is a book printed in 1800 entirely from straw. Historical Account of the Substances Which Have Been Used to Describe Events and to Convey Ideas from the Earliest Date to the Invention of Paper by Matthis Koops.

This month’s Artifact of the Month is from our Rare Book Library: Wirecloth for Paper Mills, published in 1925 by Rai Wire Works of the French Compagnie de Général D'électricité (aka the General Electricity Company).  

This month’s artifact is a dandy roll.

This month’s artifact is a calendar for August 1918, printed by the Marchbanks Press

Paper Trade Journal: Convention issue, 1907 

This month’s “Artifact of the Month” is a collection of lithograph prints by Swedish artist Lars Norrman (1915 – 1979).  

This month’s artifact comes from our Rare Book Library: Essays for the Month of December

This month’s artifact is a letter to Dard Hunter from a Mr. David Silve c. 1943 regarding the introduction of a newly invented font type: Times New Roman.  

In 1929, a British newspaper entitled The Times of London hired typographer Stanley Morison to create a new font for the paper, after Morison criticized The Times for being “extremely out of touch with modern trends in typography.” Morison led the project and supervised Victor Lardent, an advertising artist for The Times, who actually drew the letterforms.