The Bentons: How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry

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329 Credits Books, magazines, archives and ephemera collections cited are part of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT unless otherwise indicated. Multiple illustrations on one page are listed in clockwise order. Chapter 1 p. 1, 2 Cary Graphic Arts Collection, photos by Frank Cost. p. 3 Photo by Frank Cost; Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel, “On Punch Cutting & Wood Cutting,” Colophon 10 (1932); Fritz Kredel for Paul Koch’s “The Making of Printing Types,” Dolphin 1 (1933): 30, plate 2; ibid., 36. p. 5 Rudolf Koch, The Typefoundry in Silhouette: A Portfolio of Twenty-Five Silhouettes (Offenbach, Germany: Klingspor Bros. Type Foundry, 1918); “The Making of Printing Types,” 47. p. 6 “Type Making,” Chicago Specimen 9, no. 4 (October 1875): 4, courtesy of the Book Arts Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. p. 7 Theodore Lowe De Vinne, The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Practices of Plain Printing Types (New York: The Century Co., 1900), 45–46; ATF ephemera, uncatalogued . p. 8 Photos by Frank Cost. 330 the bentons p. 9 “The Making of Printing Types,” 52; Histoire de l’Invention de l’Imprimerie par Les Monuments (Paris: Imprimerie Rue de Verneuil, No. 4, June 1840), 12. p. 10 Theodore Lowe De Vinne, The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Practices of Plain Printing Types (New York: The Century Co., 1900), 23; Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use, vol. 1 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1922), 21. p. 12 Photo by Frank Cost; Lucien Alphonse Legros and John Cameron Grant, Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of their Production (London, New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), 79; Cary Collection. p. 13 Photo by Frank Cost; Rudolf Koch, The Typefoundry in Silhouette; ATF/Kingsley Archives; ATF ephemera. p. 15 Carl Schraubstadter Jr., “Electrotype Matrices,” Inland Printer 4, no. 6 (March 1887): 382. Chapter 2 p. 23 Courtesy of Caroline Benton Gregg, rephotographed by Henry Weiland. p. 24 Courtesy of Caroline Benton Gregg. p. 25 Courtesy of Laurence Gregg. p. 27, 28, 29 Courtesy of Laurence Gregg; middle photo on p. 27 by T. H. Powe, Milwaukee . Chapter 3 p. 38 Courtesy of Laurence Gregg. p. 39 Line image courtesy of James Eckman, MD; American Type Founders Co., Portable Book of Specimens from The Benton & Waldo Foundry Operated by American Type Founders Company, Pantentees and Manufacturers of Benton’s Self Spacing Type (Milwaukee, New York: ATF Co., ca. 1893), courtesy of Laurence Gregg. p. 41 All examples from the Portable Book of Specimens. 331 credits Chapter 4 p. 44 Cary Graphic Arts Collection, photo by Frank Cost. p. 46 Quadrat [Henry Lewis Bullen], “Discursions of a Retired Printer, No. VII,” Inland Printer 38, no. 4 (January 1907): 520. p. 48 U.S. Patent No. 290,201, http://patft.uspto.gov (browser plug-in required to access full image); Typographic Specimens: Benton’s Self Spacing Type (Milwaukee, St. Paul: Benton, Waldo & Co., ca. 1884), back cover, courtesy of Laurence Gregg; “Benton ’s Punch Engraving Machine,” Benton-Waldo Type Foundry, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.A. (pamphlet), n.d., back cover, courtesy of Laurence Gregg; Portable Book of Specimens, 4; Typographic Specimens: Benton’s Self Spacing Type, 8. p. 49 Typographic Specimens: Benton’s Self Spacing Type, 1. p. 50 Typographic Specimens: Benton’s Self Spacing Type, 12, 14; Portable Book of Specimens, 32. p. 51 Typographic Specimens: Benton’s Self Spacing Type, 1. Chapter 5 p. 58 U.S. Patent No. 332,990, http://patft.uspto.gov; Theodore Lowe De Vinne, The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Practices of Plain Printing Types (New York: The Century Co., 1900), 349. p. 63 Henry Lewis Bullen, “Origin and Development of the Linotype Machine, Part II,” Inland Printer 72, no. 6 (March 1924): 936; Bullen, “Origin and Development of the Linotype Machine, Part I,” Inland Printer 72, no. 5 (February 1924): 769. p. 66 Bullen, “Origin and Development … Part II,” 937. p. 68 “Benton’s Punch Engraving Machine,” Benton-Waldo Type Foundry, Milwaukee , Wis., U.S.A. (pamphlet), n.d., cover, courtesy of Laurence Gregg; photo by Morris Benton, courtesy of Laurence Gregg. p. 71 U.S. Patent No. 809,548, http://patft.uspto.gov p. 72 Lucien...