Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book

Jesse R Ewing
Jesse R Ewing Posts: 13
edited May 21 in Type History
I just wanted to share a fun find that I don't believe I've run into anywhere online. It's a specimen book put out by the Linotype Composition Company of Baltimore, Maryland, a photo typesetting provider, dated May 1966. Probably nothing new inside that isn't available to see elsewhere, but it's still a nice booklet with a sense of humor, and it includes full alphabets (albeit screened out).

Photo Lettering by Bruno album on Flickr

Borrowed from Cranky Press, Salem, Ohio.
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  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,351
    The “Alter-Type” page is especially nice!
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,787
    edited May 21
    The bulk of it appears to be the full Filmotype library. I spotted the ones I did back when I was part of the effort to digitize them (spearheaded by @Stuart Sandler).
  • Stephen Coles
    Stephen Coles Posts: 1,041
    edited 6:07AM
    Yep, that’s the most Filmotype I’ve seen in one catalog. (This one comes second.) Nice find, Jesse, and thank you for sharing!
  • Florian Hardwig
    Florian Hardwig Posts: 291
    Thanks a bunch for sharing, Jesse! 
    Apart from being a wonderful window into commercial typography from that period, it’s a great resource that will help narrowing down the dates of some of Filmotype’s later releases. It includes faces like Ferdinand which aren’t included in a c.1958 catalog (kindly shared by James Puckett) nor in Filmotype by Trade, which came out in or after 1962.

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