Barnhart Brothers & Spindler

found: Its Type faces, border designs, typecast ornaments ... ca. 1930:t.p. (Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, type founders, manufacturers and merchants to printers) p. 4 (general offices in Chicago; founded 1868)

found: Annenberg, M. Type foundries of America and their catalogs, 1975:p. 56 (Barnhart Brothers and Spindler (The Great Western Type Foundry), 1868-1929; founded 1868 by purchase of Great Western Type Foundry stock; operated as partnership under name Barnhart Brothers & Spindler until incorporation under same name in 1883; in 1911 it sold out to American Type Founders Company but continued to operate under its own name for 20 years) p. 59 (seems to have used names Great Western Type Foundry [no publications in LC] and other names in Kansas City and other cities at some point in its history)

found: Annenberg, M. Type foundries of American and their catalogs, 1975:p. xix (The Great Western Type Foundry is listed as an alternate name for Barnhart Bros. & Spindler)

found: Classic typefaces: American type and type designers, 2011:page 263 (American Type Founders; ATF; created in 1892 by the absorbtion of 23 independent type foundries, including ... Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ...)

found: Barnharts big blue book, ca. 1896:t.p. (Barnhart Bros. & Spindler; Great Western Type Foundry)