American Type Founders Company
American Type Founders Company
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Variants
American Type Founders Co. A.T.F. Co. ATF Co. American Typefounders' Company
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Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan. Specimens of printing types, 1871 (name not given)
found: Annenberg, M. Type foundries of Amer. and their catalogs, 1975: p. 41, etc. (American Type Founders Company; incorp. 2/8/1892, a combined company of 23 individual firms, including the principal branch of Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan Co. and Phelps, Dalton & Co.)
found: MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: American Type Founders Company; usage: American Type Founders Company; American Type Founders Co.; A.T.F. Co.; variant: American Typefounders' Company; note: later forms of name and subsidiaries include American Type Founders Sales Corporation [no publs. in LC data base]; American Type Founders, inc. (Incorporated 1946) [no publs. in LC data base]; and Daystrom, inc.)
found: LC in RLIN, 4/4/88 (hdg.: American Type Founders Company; usage: American Type Founders Co.; hdg.: Daystrom, inc.; usage: American Type Founders Company)
found: LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Daystrom, inc.; Incorporated in N.J. Feb. 1892 as American Type Founders Company, a consolidation of several of the leading type foundries of the U.S. including John Ryan Foundry [no publs. in LC data base] of Baltimore and Marder, Luse, and Company [no publs. in LC data base]; name changed to American Type Founders, inc., May 14, 1936)
found: Typophile website, 1 Sept 2009 American Type Founders page (Foundries incorporated into ATF included Inland Type Foundry)
Change Notes
1988-05-10: new
2009-09-30: revised
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