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16 photos and 7 illustrations tagged fonts, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• typefaces
• type:foundry=klingspor
• typefacespecimen
• typespecimen
• type:face=sezession
• type:foundry=berthold
• 1900s
• london
• bldigital
• date1882
• pubplacelondon
• publicdomain
• sysnum003834328
• walfordedward
• large
• vol03
• page234
• mechanicalcurator
• imagesfrombook003834328
• imagesfromvolume00383432803
• westdrayton
• fontinwestdraytonchurch
• baptismalfonts
• churches

Members using this tag

• Letterform Archive 20 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Gebr. Klingspor specimen booklet, ca.1951

from Letterform Archive

• Maria Isabel Quimbay said:

  ¿Es posible conseguir ese libro y donde? Gracias!

• Letterform Archive said:

  Maria Isabel Quimbay Unfortunately, this type specimen is rarely available from used booksellers. This copy is in our collection and available for reference. You can visit in person or request images.
  
  Desafortunadamente, este tipo de espécimen rara vez está disponible en los libreros usados. Esta copia está en nuestra colección y disponible para referencia. Puede visitar en persona o solicitar imágenes.

Four excerpts from Franklin Type Foundry, Convenient Book of Specimens, Cincinnati, 1892

from Letterform Archive

• Florian Hardwig said:

  1. LB
  2. Lakeside Script!

• Flickr Foundation said:

  Stunning!

Foolish House, Ontario Beach Park in 1910

from George Eastman Museum

• 64 older comments, and then…
• mistranslatedcap said:

  Fantastic! Only wish there was a uncompressed version available!

• George Eastman Museum said:

  The compression doesn't really affect this image much. Photographs this old can have a look about them that suggests compression, however, its just the condition of an almost 100 year old autochrome. :)

• Robert Schneider said:

  Splendid.
  
  And all that for a nickel!

• BenjaminLClark said:

  "Wait for the Parade"

• gardenwife said:

  I love this! It looks like someone exploded ransom notes and they stuck all over the building. ;)