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

Index

361 Index Adobe, 196 Adscript, 241–242 Advertising types, 170–171, 243–245 Advertising Typographers Association of America, Inc., 270 Agency Gothic, 235–236 Alignment gauge, 140, 141, 141 Allison, Robert, 81, 82 Allison & Smith Type Foundry (Cincinnati), 81 Alternate Gothic, 233 American Line Type Book (ATF), 159 American Machinist (magazine), 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 128 American Press Association, 83 American Printer (magazine), 172, 176, 259 American Printing History Association, 271 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 149 American System of Interchangeable Type Bodies, 46, 47, 79, 136 American Type Designers and Their Work (exhibition), 172, 191 American Type Founders Company (ATF), 5, 27, 29, 29, 37, 60, 71 advertising devices, 117, 118 American Lining System in, 159 automatic cylinder press, 162 bankruptcy, 164 catalogs, 157–160 Cost Cut Equipment line, 161 “Day Book,” 137, 137 diversification of product line in, 157–161 early problems, 82–83 economic hardships, 157–165 Efficiency Department, 161 Engineering Department, 162 final auction of, 123, 289 formation of, 79–85 initial neglect by management, 81, 82 Jersey City plant, 158 Kelly press, 162–163 Kelly Press Division, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 163, 163, 165 Linn Boyd Benton at, 87–99 merger of, 80–82 Morris Fuller Benton at, 103–113 move from New York to Jersey City, 104, 147, 157, 193 move from Jersey City to Elizabeth, New Jersey, 98, 133, 165 need to close weakest foundries, 81 need to standardize type lines resulting from mergers, 103 organizing type matrices at, 104 prosperous periods, 157–165 specimen books, 85, 89, 157–160, 185 takeover of Thorne Typesetting Machine Co., 83–84 Type Designing Department, 164, 175, 186, 193 362 the bentons American Type Founders Company (continued) typemaking at, 117–143 Typographic Library and Museum, 17, 52, 105, 106, 106, 165, 173, 209 war work, 161–162, 165 Annenberg, Maurice, 45, 225 Antique, 229, 236, 237 Antique Condensed, 40 Ars Typographica (journal), 174, 178, 197 Arts and Crafts Society (London), 104 Ascender Corp., 271–272 Athias, Joseph, 13 Automatic cylinder pess, 162 Automatic justifying machine, 47, 57 Baas, Isaac Jr., 94 Bailey, Caroline Melinda (“Kit”), 26 Balloon, 118 Baltimore Type Foundry, 35 Band machine, 62–63 Bank Gothic, 235 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (New York/Chicago), 35, 46, 59, 80, 81, 84, 108, 119, 164, 170 Barth, Henry, 82, 82, 141 Barth typecaster, 141–142 Baskerville, John, 222 Baskerville type, 197, 222–224 Batty, Mark, 221 Bauer, John, 128, 160 Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 223 Becker, Charles Herman, 186, 235 Belsley, Clay, 150 Bembo, Pietro, 217 Benguiat, Edward, 221 Bennett, Paul A., 201, 215 Benton, Andrew, 19 Benton, Caroline, 27, 28, 29, 39, 111, 147, 149, 150, 151, 151, 153, 165, 257, 259, 263, 264, 269, 270 Benton, Catherine Britton, 19 Benton, Charles R., 20 Benton, Charles Swan, 19–22 Benton, Elizabeth, 27, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 151, 154, 259, 269 Benton, Ethel (nee Bottum), 26, 27, 147, 148, 149, 150, 150, 151, 151, 152, 152, 257 Benton, Gove & Co. (Milwaukee), 37–41, 93 Benton, Jessie, 22, 23, 23, 25, 26, 147, 148, 148, 151, 259 Benton, Joseph, 19 Benton, Katrina, 257, 258, 258, 259, 262, 263 Benton, Linn Boyd, 1, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 68, 82, 154 at American Type Founders Company (ATF), 87–99 automatic brass rule facing machine, 98 at Benton, Gove & Co., 37–40 Century type and, 87–90 challenges new measurement standards, 47 change of engraving protocols from lead to steel, 60, 63–64, 73 chief techical advisor with American Type Founders Company, 82 death of mother, 20, 30n15 delineating machine, 97, 98, 119–121, 121 early years, 22 education and early employment, 22–23 engraving factor tables, 133, 134, 137 establishment of letter-designing department, 87 family life, 147–154 float for steam boiler feed regulator, 93 fonting apparatus for multigraph types, 111 head of ATF general manufacturing department,90 influence on Linotype machine, 64–67, 70 interest in mathematics, 72 knitting machine by, 93, 154, 154 later years, 258–260 legibility studies, 88 loss of eyesight, 259 matrix engraving machine, 59, 71, 71, 73, 96, 117, 124–138, 202 matrix trimming machine, 96 medal from Colombian Exhibition (Chicago 1896), 69 mold attachment to prevent “swell bodies,” 94 mold for casting printers’ leads/slugs, 93, 94, 96 in New York City, 27, 82, 87 Northwestern Type Foundry, 35–41 optical scaling, 133 patent controversy, 94, 95, 100n13 patents, 47, 48, 52, 60, 68, 71, 72, 73, 93–99, 96–97tab, 154, 259 punch-cutting machine, 57–73, 90, 94, 96 reputation...