Typography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Architecture and Typography Scrapbook
Collection — Volume Brouillard volume: [Barcode: 31116022181371]
Identifier: 004-03-03
Scope and Contents
Produced sometime around 1900 by an anonymous compiler, the scrapbook of approximately 120 pages includes drawings, botanical illustrations, woodcut borders, etc. Among other material it includes pasted-in sheets from the 1886 and 1887 Calendrier de La Belle Jardinière by Eugène Grasset.
Dates:
circa 1750-1900
Giambattista Bodoni Correspondence
Collection — Box Red clamshell box: [Barcode: 31116022181363]
Identifier: 004-02-02
Dates:
1765-1817
The Hart Collection of Women in the Book Arts and Design - Books and Periodicals
Collection — Hart Collection - SpecColHt
Identifier: 157
Dates:
1500 - 2024
Cyrus Highsmith Sketchbook Collection
Collection — 169-02
Identifier: 169-02
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection comprises sketchbooks kept by Cyrus Highsmith between 1993 and 2025. The sketchbooks (210 sketchbooks and 33 pocket notebokos) include sketches, working designs for typefaces, personal notes, and ephemera laid in or pasted onto pages.
Dates:
1993-2025
Updike Prize for Student Type Design Entries
Collection — Drawer FF-10: 7, Drawer: 1
Identifier: 051-04-02
Scope and Contents
Beginning in 2014 Providence Public Library's Special Collections has operated a prize for student type design. More information about the prize, and a list of previous entrants is available on the library's website.This collection includes type specimens produced by contestants. As of 2026 they include the following student designers:
Joseph...
Dates:
2014-2025
Voyagers’ Press collection
Collection
Identifier: 024-02
Dates:
1954 - 1969
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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Voyagers’ Press collection