Farmer, Little & Co.; A. D. Farmer

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1. Overview

New York. Emerged ca. 1861 out of Elihu White's typefoundry. As indicated by the specimens below, through at least 1867 they were trading as Farmer, Little & Company dba "White's New York Type Foundry." Traded as A. D. Farmer from 1892. Acquired by ATF in 1909. {Saxe-Loy, 24}

2. Specimen Books

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1866. Supplement No. 3

Late Specimens of Printing Types ("Supplement No. 3") (NY: Farmer, Little & Co., 1866.) This has been digitized from the New York Public Library copy and is available from The Hathi Trust (ID: nyp.33433003361064) I have assembled a single-file version from the Hathi Trust page scans and uploaded this to The Internet Archive; the icon at left links to a that. For convenience, here is a local copy of this (22 Megabyte PDF): farmer-1866-supplement-no-3-hathi-nyp-33433003361064-png.pdf

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1867. Specimen Book

As digitized, this specimen book lacks a title page. It has been digitized by Cornell University from its copy, and made available through The Internet Archive; at http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032199238. The icon at left links to that presentation. Here, for convenience, is a local copy of the PDF version: PDF version (cu31924032199238.pdf) and the (nicer) DjVu version (cu31924032199238.djvu).

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1887. Specimens of Printing Types

Specimens of Printing Types (Chicago [not NY]: Farmer, Little & Co., 1887.) This has been digitized from the New York Public Library copy and is available from The Hathi Trust (ID: nyp.33433003361080) I have assembled a single-file version from the Hathi Trust page scans and uploaded this to The Internet Archive; the icon at left links to a that. For convenience, here is a local copy of this (188 Megabyte PDF): farmer-1887-hathi-nyp-33433003361080-png.pdf

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1889. Selected Type Faces

Selected Type Faces from the Foundry of Farmer, Little & Co. (NY: Farmer, Little & Co., 1889.) This has been digitized from the New York Public Library copy and is available from The Hathi Trust (ID: nyp.33433044560187) I have assembled a single-file version from the Hathi Trust page scans and uploaded this to The Internet Archive; the icon at left links to a that. For convenience, here is a local copy of this (65 Megabyte PDF): farmer-1889-hathi-nyp-33433044560187-png.pdf

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1893. Specimens

Specimens from the A. D. Farmer and Son Type Founding Co. (NY: A. D. Farmer & Son, 1893.) This specimen contains a supplement, paginated uniformly with the specimen itself, which begins on page 305 (image no. 319 of the digitization). This has been digitized from the New York Public Library copy and is available from The Hathi Trust (ID: nyp.33433006349405) I have assembled a single-file version from the Hathi Trust page scans and uploaded this to The Internet Archive; the icon at left links to a that. For convenience, here is a local copy of this (376 Megabyte PDF): farmer-1893-hathi-nyp-33433006349405-png.pdf

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1900. Typographic Specimens

Typographic Specimens (NY: A. D. Farmer & Son Type Founding Co., 1900.)

This book has been digitized by Google Books from the Univ. of Michigan copy. The link here is to a local copy of the Google Books digitization. It is also available at higher resolution from The Hathi Trust (ID: mdp.39015039415107). Here is a local copy assembled from the page scans from The Hathi Trust: farmer-1900-hathi-mdp-39015039415107-png.pdf

3. Type-Makers Employed

4. Typefaces

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Abbey Family

image link-shortblank-sf0.jpg Runic. By 1867.

image link-shortblank-sf0.jpg Runic Condensed, No. 2. By 1887.


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