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Luke Lucas - Melbourne, Australia

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Vintage American Typography

POSTED BY Luke ON 18 FEB 2011 @ 01:17 PM

Washington DC – 1903

I stumbled across these amazing scans of typographic covers for Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the late 19th / early 20th century. Considering these were all done by hand the precision and style are actually incredible. A pure example of the craft.

Manhattan, New York – 1911

Cincinnati, Ohio – 1904

Kansas City, Missouri – December, 1895

Indianapolis, Indiana – 1898

Tampa, Florida – 1915

Brunswick, Georgia – July, 1920

Talk about inspiration. A whole lot more are over at BibliOdyssey.

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