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    A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing. The device casts bars, or slugs of type, out of type metal primarily...
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    manufacturers: Linotype Intertype Corporation the Typograph, produced in Germany Ludlow Typograph The Monoline, a very basic machine The Linotype and...
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    Caslon (redirect from Ludlow Caslon)
    The hot metal typesetting companies Linotype, Monotype, Intertype and Ludlow, which sold machines that cast type under the control of a keyboard, brought...
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    sans-serif display typeface designed in 1935 by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph company. It is an adaptation of the uppercase light weight of his earlier...
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    a paper tape, which was then fed to control a casting machine. The Ludlow Typograph involved hand-set matrices, but otherwise used hot metal. By the early...
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    sans-serif typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton in 1938 for the Ludlow Typograph company. Radiant is a "stressed" or "modulated" sans-serif, in which...
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    the city of Venice in the month of September, A.D. 1480. [Chicago, Ludlow typograph co., 1928] 15 p. 30 cm Jenson, Nicolas, ca. 1420–1480. Pliny the Elder:...
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  • War in 1914 Ludlow Massacre (song) Ludlow Monument Ludlow Street Jail, former American federal prison in New York City Ludlow Typograph, a hot metal...
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  • School of the Art Institute. He joined the design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1923 and served as director of the department of typeface...
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    a 1930 sans-serif typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph company. Tempo is a geometric sans-serif design, closely copying German...
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    months of each other in 1937. The face created by R. Hunter Middleton for Ludlow was advertised in June, while Gerry Powell's version for American Type Founders...
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    the Linotype and the Monotype, were introduced in the 1890s. The Ludlow Typograph Machine, for casting of type-high slugs from hand-gathered brass matrices...
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    A Ludlow Typograph specimen of Times New Roman Type Specimen from the metal type period. The design was altered in smaller sizes to increase readability...
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    Karnak is a slab-serif typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton for the Ludlow Typograph company and issued in the period 1931–1942. Karnak is a "geometric"...
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    61806°W / 41.86889; -87.61806 (Ludington Building) Loop May 8, 1980 Ludlow Typograph Company Building April 27, 2022 1913–1948 2028-2062 N. Clybourn Avenue...
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  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company commissioned him to design a Venetian type-face (i.e. one based...
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    printed with a F4503E Elrod strip casting machine manufactured by the Ludlow Typograph Company. The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part...
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    director of advertising and typography at Ludlow Typograph Company. Though he designed one typeface for Ludlow, his duties there primarily consisted of...
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    by antimony crystals. Eutectic alloys are used on Linotype-machines and Ludlow-casters to prevent blockage of the mould and to ensure continuous trouble-free...
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