Dates foundries joined ATF.

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• Stephen Coles Posts: 996

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  I am sure the dates are documented in each profile within Annenberg’s Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs, but I don't see a single list in the book. The best online source I know for this info is MacMillan’s Circuitous Root. Additional notes from Paul Shaw.

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• Stephen Coles Posts: 996

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  Alaistair Johnson’s Alphabets to Order has a timeline with some ATF acquisition dates. That may be the one you’re thinking of.

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• James Puckett Posts: 1,970

  November 2016

  Thanks, Stewf!

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• PabloImpallari Posts: 777

  November 2016

  

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• James Puckett Posts: 1,970

  November 2016

  I’m specifically trying to get a date for Damon Type Foundry (AKA Damon and Peets). Circuitous Root refers to Damon ending ca. 1929, but I can’t find any other information about it. 

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• George Thomas Posts: 633

  November 2016

  Annenberg, page 127, says they began in 1868 as strictly a sales organization until 1896 when they opened their own foundry. They were never a member of ATF and shut down in 1929.
  

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• James Puckett Posts: 1,970

  November 2016

  Consuegra lists them as a foundry absorbed by ATF (American Type Design and Designers, p. 263). I don’t think anyone else does. He have have listed them in error. It does seem likely that Damon would have been absorbed by ATF since Damon’s types were almost all pirated ATF designs.

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• Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,748

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  Could be a mistake.
  
  Consuegra also says Pacific States Typefoundry joined ATF. But Maurice Annenberg in Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs (1994, Oak Knoll) contradicts this, saying they never joined ATF.

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• Stephen Coles Posts: 996

  November 2016

  What does Consuegra list as sources for his info?

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• Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,748

  November 2016

  He doesn't have specific citations. There's a two-page bibliography at ~ the end of the book.

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