I need a high-ish resolution photo of a partial page in the1923 ATF catalog

Todd Johnson

Hi all. I would like a clear photo of one quadrant from a page in the 1923 ATF catalog. If you have that year's catalog and wouldn't mind snapping a decent photo for me--just one--I'd greatly appreciate the help.

I don't need tracing quality/resolution, though that would be spectacular. I'm really just trying to see what a specific letter looks like in general, but all the "high resolution" scans I've found on the Interwebs aren't really very high resolution.

Please PM me if you'd be willing to help.

Regards,
 - Todd

Cory Maylett

Did you do a Google search? It's online with reasonably good resolution.

https://archive.org/details/1923AmericanTypeFoundersSpecimenBookCatalogue/page/n19/mode/2up

Edit: Oops, I wasn't paying attention. You're asking for even higher resolution than what's on the web.

Stephen Coles

Letterform Archive provides exceptionally good photographs (or scans) for a nominal fee. We do have the 1923 ATF in the collection.

Thomas Phinney

I'll PM you

Todd Johnson

I'm sure I haven't seen the ENTIRE internet (yet), lol, so I appreciate the links that are being posted. There's always a chance I haven't seen a particular repository.

@Stephen Coles I doubt this particular endeavor will be a commercial effort, so I'll avoid the nominal fee, this time. I appreciate hearing about the Letterform Archive.

-Todd

Justin Penner

David MacMillan's scans are better than any of the scans I've seen on the Internet Archive, but sadly he's only done the first 191 pages so far.

http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncomptype/typography/atf/atf-1923/index.html

Todd Johnson

Agreed, Justin, those are the best I found. Alas, it's incomplete and some of the existing links are dead.

Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.)

I feel it would take an uncommon amount of leisure and determination to comple a scanning project like that. Or an unpaid internship 😄