It is traditional, though by no means required,
for attendees at the ATF Conferences to create "keepsakes"
for distribution to the other attendees.
At times some of these keepsakes are also papers presented at the
conference,
but more often they are simply things made for their own sake.
Here is a
very incomplete
list of some of these keepsakes:
For the 1st Conference, (1978)
- [no items yet known to me]
For the 2nd Conference, Larchmont, NY (1980)
- Duensing, Paul Hayden.
Proposed Draft for a Syllabus of Typographic Taxonomy.
"Being a preliminary outline of all facets appertaining to
the Art and Craft of the Founding of Metal Types
as practiced until the time of the recent technological revolution
in graphic arts."
(Vicksburg, Michigan: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing,
1980).
Paper presented at the conference.
Reprinted by CircuitousRoot.
- Royall Jr., S. F. ("Bill").
Thompson Middleton Hammer Goudy.
(Williamsburg, VA).
Articles by these four, reprinted.
- Soulé, A. R.
Electro-Formed Matrices / Electro-Forming.
Paper presented at the conference.
Reprinted by CircuitousRoot.
For the 3rd Conference, Oxford, UK (1982)
- "Typefounding: Past & Future."
[broadside, 17 x 25 in.]
w/ color illustration of a type mould.
For the 4th Conference, Washington, DC (1984)
- Lanston Monotype Machine Company.
Facts About the Monotype.
(1927) 16pp.
Reprinted in facsimile for the Conference by Robert Halbert.
- Hurlbut, S.A. and Paul Hayden Duensing (ed.)
Irregularities in the Customs Shed:
The Troubles of Miller & Richard, Typefounders
.
(Vicksburg, MI: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1984.)
A reprint of an appeal to the U.S. House of Representatives
(H.R. 3671, some time after 1876)
seeking relief for unfair duties on Miller & Richard type
imported via San Francisco.
- Broadside with alphabet, 12x27 in.
(London: Second Hand Press, 1984)
For the 5th Conference, Indianapolis, IN (1986)
-
Hopkins, Richard L.
Richard A. Hill, illus.
On "Sets" &c.:
The Trials and Tribulations of Casting Monotype Matrices
.
Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1986.
-
Hyder, Darrell.
Confessions of a Letterpress Printer.
(North Brookfield, MA: [by the author], 1986)
12mo, self paper wrappers, 4pp.
-
Duensing, Paul Hayden.
"The American Typecasting Fellowship."
Vicksburg, MI: Private Press & Type Foundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1986.
Broadside, 14 x 23 inches.
Illus. with a screen print from Tabort & Co.
Book of Trades (ca. 1804).
-
A commemorative casting was created for this conference.
(the first for an ATF conference).
This was a decorative Victorian-style corner piece
engraved by Carl Solomonson for Dave Churchman.
Casting was done on a Thompson Type Caster by various people
during the conference.
This casting was later described briefly (with a specimen) in
Rich Hopkins booklet
"Story Behind the Engraved Matrix"
(Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1994)
for the 1994 ATF conference's commemorative casting.
For the 6th Conference, Terra Alta, WV (1988)
-
McGrew, Mac.
"How Full?"
(Pittsburgh, PA: The Press of the Licorice Cat, 1988).
Broadside with his own derivation of an ideal fonting scheme,
illustrated graphically in the case.
-
A commemorative casting was created for this conference.
This was a design adapted by Rich Hopkins from an illustration
in a Gujarati Type Foundry (India) specimen book
which depicted a traditional type founder's hand mold.
The matrix for it was engraved by Paul Hayden Duensing
and it was cast on Rich Hopkins' Thompson Type-Caster
by Pat Taylor and Bill Reiss during the conference.
This casting was later described briefly (with a specimen) in
Rich Hopkins booklet
"Story Behind the Engraved Matrix"
(Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1994)
for the 1994 ATF conference's commemorative casting.
-
Paul Hayden Duensing.
Matlas
[source for information:
ATF Newsletter No. 17, p. 27]
For the 7th Conference, Nevada City, NV (1990)
- "Strike It Rich" [broadside/poster advertising the conference, 11 3/4 x 18 in.]
(Bean Creek Press)
- Duensing, Paul Hayden.
Deutsche Druckschriften: German Printing Types.
(Vicksburg, MI: The Private Press and Type Foundry of
Paul Hayden Duensing, 1990).
174 copies (29 slipcased, 140 reserved for
ATF and Typocrafters meetings of 1990.
- Issue No. 14 of the ATF
Newsletter
was presented as a keepsake at this Conference.
For the 8th Conference, Williamsburg, VA (1992)
- Hopkins, Richard L.
American Typecasting Fellowship: Raison d'Être (Why We Exist - Our Reason for Being)
(Terra Alta, WV: The Hill and Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1992).
- Churchman, David C. and Bruche Washbish.
"Observations:
A Report to the American Typecasting Fellowship Conference,
Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia, July 1992."
This contains Churchman's article
"The House That Eggs Built:
A Brief History of the
Sterling Type Foundry"
and Washbish's article
"Electronics and the Letterpress Printer."
For the 9th Conference, Buena Park, CA (1994)
-
A commemorative casting was created for this conference
This was a design adapted at the suggestion of
David Peat and Rich Hopkins
from an early American Type Founders logo
(shown in the 1912
ATF Specimen Book).
Digital and photographic preparation of the design was done by
Rich Hopkins.
The matrix for this 72 point logotype was engraved by The Dale Guild on the
single surviving American Type Founders "Ad Cut" pantograph.
Technical assistance by William C. Gregan.
The matrix was made for and cast on an English
Monotype Super Caster.
Casting by Rich Hopkins in June 1994.
Rich described all of this in the companion keepsake booklet
"Story Behind the Engraved Matrix" (see below).
A photograph of one of these types,
digitally reversed for ease of reading by non-printers,
is used as the "topic image" at the top of this page.
-
Hopkins, Richard L.
American Typecasting Fellowship Commemorative Casting /
Story Behind the Engraved Matrix
.
Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1994.
Describes the engraved matrix used for the third commemorative casting
done for an ATF meeting.
This booklet contains important information on the life of
William C. Gregan,
a master engraver for American Type Founders.
For the 10th Conference, Charlotte, NY (1996)
-
A Demon Machine, Eats Paper and Lays Type
([no location]: Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1996).
Reprint of an 1897 newspaper account of the Monotype.
- Goble, Corban.
"Rogers Typograph versus Mergenthaler's Linotype:
The Push and Shove of Patents and Priority in the 1890s."
[This paper was first presented ten years earlier at the
69th Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications (Norman, OK, August 3-6, 1986.)]
- "A Font of Type" [broadside, 7 3/4 x 19 in.]
(San Rafael, CA / Petaluma, CA: Mount Tam Press / Anchor & Acorn Press). Tribute to
Lester Lloyd of Mackenzie & Harris.
- A two-page computer typewritten and photocopied essay on medical topics
by Robert C. Black.
- At the 1984 Conference No. 4 (Washington, D.C.),
John Dreyfus had presented
a talk entitled "Memories of Monotype,"
accompanied by slides.
As a keepsake for this 1996 Conference, Paul Hayden Duensing
and Rich Hopkins worked jointly to prepare for publication
Dreyfus' 1984 talk under the new title "Aspects of Monotype - I."
This version included significant additional material
by Duensing and Hopkins.
Here it is, presented through the courtesy of Rich Hopkins:
Aspects of Monotype - I (39 Megabyte PDF).
For the 11th Conference, Sunnyvale, CA (1998)
- [no items yet known to me]
For the 12th Conference, Rindge, NH and Ashuelot, NH (2000)
-
Duensing, Paul Hayden.
Weighty Matters for Monotype Movers.
Michigan: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 2000).
Consists of reproductions from an unspecified source of
specifications (with weights and dimensions) for the
Monotype Keyboard,
Composition Caster,
Type and Rule Caster,
Supercaster,
and Thompson Caster
(all English Monotype)
and the No. 4 Vandercook press.
For the 13th Conference, Provo, UT (2002)
-
Rehak, Theo, Dave Peat, Rich Hopkins, eds.
Photographic Views of Central Plant:
American Type Founders Company, Jersey City, New Jersey
.
American Typecasting Fellowship, 2002.
A reprint of an American Type Founders booklet;
also distributed to The Typophiles.
Still (2013) available from Dave Peat.
For the 14th Conference, Terra Alta, WV (2004)
-
Specimens of Twenty-first Century Hot-Metal Typesetting,
Typecasting, and Linecasting.
("A combined keepsake produced via letterpress by participants
at The American Typecasting Fellowship Conferecne in
Terra Alta, West Virginia September 2004")
- Walczak, Jim.
"My Self-Contained Cooling System for Type-Casting Machines."
(Oxon Hill, Maryland: Sycamore Press & Typefoundry, 2004)
For the 15th Conference, Carson, CA (2006)
- [no items yet known to me]
For the 16th Conference, St. Louis, MO / Kampsville, IL (2008)
- [no items yet known to me]
For the 17th Conference, Piqua, OH (2010)
-
For this conference,
Mel Arndt of Toledo engraved a beautiful 120 point matrix for the
ATF logo.
We cast this using a hand mold that Gregory J. Walters, our host,
imported from India.
There was no publication associated with this matrix or casting.
For a little more on it, see the Notebook on
Casting Mel Arndt's 120 Point Matrix (ATF Piqua, 2010).
- Daggs, Jim.
"There's Nothing Like the Kiss of Letterpress."
[broadside, 13 x 19 in.]
For the 18th Conference, Portland, OR (2012)
Although I was unable to attend this Conference,
I was able to put together a
complete list of the
keepsakes presented there
(q.v.)
The paper which I was unable to present at this Conference
(but which was distributed),
is available here:
"On Preserving Typecasting and Linecasting Documents in the Digital Era
For the 19th Conference, Salem, NH (2014)
See the main entry for this conference, at
../ ATF 2014 Conference: Papers, Presentations, and Keepsakes.
For the 20th Conference, Finger Lakes Region, NY (2016)
See the main entry for this conference, at
../ ATF 2016 Conference: Papers, Presentations, and Keepsakes.
For the 21st Conference, M&H Type Foundry, San Francisco, CA (2018)
TO DO.
For the 22nd Conference, Online (2021)
As this conference was online,
there were no traditional printed or cast keepsakes.
