St. Louis. 1872 - 1892. James A. St. John and Carl Schraubstadter, Sr. purchase the Boston Type Foundry
Engaged in early machine engraving of matrices (ca. 1882). (See Werner, N. J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. )
Sold for cash into American Type Founders at its creation in 1892.
Geometric
Eckman, James. "The Great Western Type Foundry of Barnhart Brothers and Spindler, 1869-1933." Printing and Graphic Arts. Vol. 9 (1961): 1-32 dates Geometric to 1882. Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. cites Geometric as one of several faces the matrices of which were engraved by machine at this very early date (the other two faces were Geometric Italic and Morning Glory.
Geometric Italic
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis. Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. cites Geometric Italic as one of several faces the matrices of which were engraved by machine at this very early date (the other two faces were Geometric and Morning Glory.
Morning Glory
1882. Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. cites Geometric as one of several faces the matrices of which were engraved by machine at this very early date (the other two faces were Geometric and Geometric Italic
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