[INCOMPLETE: I've only assembled Nos. 1-19; the series goes much further.
These are digitizations of the original articles of William E. Loy's series "Typefounders and Typefounding in America" which appeared in The Inland Printer from August 1900 to [find]. At present, many of these digitizations are from the rather low-resolution copies available via Google Books.
In the material below, each icon to the left of an entry links to a PDF-format extract of the article.
No. 1, Prior to the Revolution
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 1 - The Conditions Prior to the Revolution." The Inland Printer, Vol. 25, No. 5 (August, 1900): 650. Digitized by Google from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota copies and available via the Hathi Trust.
No. 2, Last Quarter, 18th Century
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 2 - The Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century." The Inland Printer, Vol. 25, No. 6 (September, 1900): 814-815. Digitized by Google from the University of Michigan copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
Note: For the icon at left I've used the first page of this issue, as the article itself has no illustration of its own and the cover of this number of the magazine is imperfect in the Google scan.
No. 3, Archibald Binny
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 3 - Archibald Binny." The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 1 (October, 1900): 91. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
The portrait of Binny in the Google scan of this article is quite a poor reproduction. Here are two portraits of Binny from a different source: the 1896 publication One Hundred Years by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan (successors to Binny's firm). The first is clearly from the same portrait. The second is from a medal cut by a Mr. Fürst, a die-sinker at the Philadelphia Mint who may also have cut punches for the firm.
No. 4, James Ronaldson
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 4 - James Ronaldson." The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 2 (November, 1900): 282. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
Here, as in No.3, is a better version of the portrait, as taken from One Hundred Years.
No. 5, Elihu White
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 5 - Elihu White." The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 3 (December, 1900): 457. [Note: This was printed as a second "No. IV" in error; it is the fifth article.] Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
For an account of White which is more sympathetic to his important influendes - if not his directly successes - in the history of typefounding, see the 1874 memoir of David Bruce, Jr., published as History of Typefounding in the United States. Ed. James Eckman. (NY: The Typophiles, 1981).
No. 6, David Bruce [Sr.]
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 6 - David Bruce [Sr.]" The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 4 (January, 1901): 647-648. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
No. 7, George Bruce
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 7 - George Bruce." The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 5 (February, 1901): 802. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
No. 8, James Lindsay
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 8, James Lindsay." The Inland Printer, Vol. 26, No. 6 (March, 1901): 981. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
No. 9, David Wolfe Bruce
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 9, David Wolfe Bruce." The Inland Printer, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April, 1901): 96. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust. The UMN copy was originally bound without issue covers. This volume has also been digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. The cover used in the PDF here is from that digitization.
No. 10, James Conner
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 8, James Conner." The Inland Printer, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1901): 229. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust. The UMN copy was originally bound without issue covers. This volume has also been digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. The cover used in the PDF here is from that digitization.
No. 11, James Conner's Sons
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 11, James Conner's Sons." The Inland Printer, Vol. 27, No. 3 (June, 1901): 376. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust. The UMN copy was originally bound without issue covers. Within this issue, however, appears a small cut of the cover. The cover used in the PDF here is from that cut in the UMN digitization; it is only very slightly better than nothing. (This volume has also been digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy, but in that copy the cover of issue No. 3 is missing.)
No. 12, William Hagar
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 12, William Hagar." The Inland Printer, Vol. 27, No. 4 (July, 1901): 561-562. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
No. 13, Hagar Foundry
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 13, Hagar Foundry." The Inland Printer, Vol. 27, No. 5 (August, 1901): 712. The UMN copy was originally bound without issue covers. This volume has also been digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. The cover used in the PDF here is from that digitization.
[No. 14], Charles Wells
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: [No. 14], Charles Wells." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 1 (October, 1901): 99. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy and available via the Hathi Trust.
Started the Cincinnati Type Foundry, originally as a branch of Elihu White's (New York) Type Foundry.
No. 15, Henry Barth
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 15, Henry Barth." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 2 (November, 1901): 244-245.
Cincinnat Type Foundry; ATF.
No. 16, John T. Reton
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 16, John T Reton." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 3 (December, 1901): 417.
Kansas City Type Foundry, mostly.
No. 17, Edward Miller
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 17, Edward Miller." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 4 (January, 1902): 584.
Albany; Northwestern (Milwaukee).
No. 18, George F. Smith and His Sons
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 18, George F. Smith and His Sons." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 5 (February, 1902): 748.
Binny & Ronaldson -> Johnson -> MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan.
The portrait of George F. Smith as it appears in Google's scans does him little justice. Here's a better version, from MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan's One Hundred Years:
No. 19, Lawrence Johnson
Loy, William E. "Typefounders and Typefounding in America: No. 19, Lawrence Johnson." The Inland Printer, Vol. 28, No. 6 (March, 1902): 913.
Here is a better version of the portrait, once again from One Hundred Years:
The material by Loy from The Inland Printer is in the public domain. Its digitizations by Google and others are all in the public domain. Their reprints here remain in the public domain.
MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan's One Hundred Years is in the public domain. My scans, used here, from my copy remain in the public domain.
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