Providence Public Library (R.I.). Special Collections
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Updike Type Specimen Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: 004-04-06
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed primarily of 20th-century ephemeral type specimens from Europe and America. Many are notable for their colorful design and creative sample text, and some are styled in the manner of faux publications (e.g. “The Baskerville Banner,” which is presented as a newspaper broadside).
Dates:
1734-2017
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Advertising cards 2
- Rhode Island -- Description and travel 2
- Advertising 1
- Advertising--Fashion 1
- Aerial photographs 1
- Architectural photographs 1
- Black & white photographs 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Business enterprises -- Rhode Island 1
- Card photographs 1
- Checkers 1
- Composers -- Rhode Island 1
- Corsets 1
- Dry plate negatives 1
- Fashion--History 1
- Graphic design (Typography) 1
- Landscape photographs 1
- Music -- Rhode Island 1
- Musical works 1
- Newspaper layout and typography 1
- Novelties 1
- Performing arts -- Rhode Island 1
- Photographic postcards 1
- Photographic prints 1
- Photographs 1
- Photographs -- Rhode Island 1
- Postcards 1
- Postcards -- Rhode Island 1
- Printing 1
- Records (Documents) 1
- Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 1
- Rhode Island -- Description and travel 1
- Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Stereographs 1
- Theater programs 1
- Theaters -- Rhode Island 1
- Type specimens 1
- Viewbooks 1
- Whalers (Persons) 1
- Whaling 1
- Whaling ships 1 ∧ less
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