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Material relating to boycott of Nazi typefaces, 1939-1940.
BANC MSS 2000/84 czLOCAL
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Title:
Material relating to boycott of Nazi typefaces, 1939-1940Creator/Contributor:
Graphic Arts Forum (New York, N.Y.), creatorAbstract:
Contains several copies of a 1939 proclamation, with signatures of notable members of the Forum, calling for graphic artists
and advertisers to boycott the purchase and use of Nazi typefaces, and encouraging them to use American-made type. The bulk
of the collection consists of requests from printers, publishers, and other interested parties in the U.S., Canada, and Europe
for copies of the proclamation, which features a list of Nazi-made type and compares typefaces made in Germany with similar
U.S. type. With this are minutes of the Forum's type committee meeting of May 1939, a press release, and clippings, among
which is the New Republic article of Aug. 9, 1939, from which many of the requests originated.
Date:
1939 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- e-gx---Willard, Howard
Boycotts -- United States
Printing -- United States
Type and type-founding -- United States -- 20th century
Type and type-founding -- Germany -- 20th century
Nazis -- Germany
Note:
Some proclamations are annotated.
Type:
Proclamations.Physical Description:
print
1 box and 1 oversize folder (.3 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2000/84 czLOCAL