{"id":626,"date":"2020-04-19T19:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=626"},"modified":"2021-01-04T02:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T02:36:24","slug":"the-composing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/the-composing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Composing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Composing Room, type-setting firm founded by Sol Cantor and Robert L. Leslie<\/a> in 1934.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Composing Room<\/span> became the sponsor for a variety of intellectual and educational endeavors starting with PM and A-D magazines, graphic arts courses, the A-D Gallery, Gallery 303 and eventually the lecture series Heritage of the Graphic Arts in the 1960s. Hortense Mendel David<\/a> was publicity director and co-editor of publications.<\/p>\n

Robert L. Leslie served as an intermediary between Ismar David (in Jerusalem) and Intertype (in Brooklyn) during the production of David Hebrew David metal type.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An undated announcement for The Composing Room<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Composing Room, type-setting firm founded by Sol Cantor and Robert L. Leslie in 1934. The Composing Room became the sponsor for a variety of intellectual and educational endeavors starting with PM and A-D magazines, graphic arts courses, the A-D Gallery, Gallery 303 and eventually the lecture series Heritage of the Graphic Arts in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}