In honor of Ben Primer, and thanks to the Friends of the Princeton University Library, the Graphic Arts Collection has acquired a photography album owned by George Frederick Norton (1876-1917) documenting a hunting expedition in the American West and Alaska, ca. 1910. The album contains 117 mounted gelatin silver prints (slightly photoshopped […]
Fortuna im Goldlande oder das Lustige Kleeblatt in Californien. Unterhaltendes Gesells chaftsspiel. Nürnberg: Verlag von J.L. Lotzbeck, [n.d., c. 1855]. Hand-colored lithograph and illustrated board, folding down into the original card slipcase with a hand colored label. Graphic Arts Collection 2019- in process On the morning of January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered […]
In the back of the first volume of our newly acquired specimen albums from Godefroy Engelmann’s Société Engelmann père et fils, is this chromolithographed game board. At one end is an image of men and women playing Shatranj (the Persian word for what became chess). At the other, the men are smoking from a water […]
At the age of 81, the American graphic designer William H. Bradley wrote a casual memoir for his fellow members of the Typophiles, a social club for men in the printing industry. Written in the second person, Bradley covers his early years learning to set type and then, design posters. “The Iron Ore print shop […]