A broadside keepsake in honor of founding member of the Typophiles, Paul A. Bennett. Offset print.
Paul Bennett Keepsake
Month: May 2020
Memory Book 1
A memory book, made for Temple Beth-El, in Providence, Rhode Island in 1955.
Gladstone Poster
A Poster for Pinelawn Memorial Park with quotation of William Gladstone:
Show me the manner in which a nation or community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals.
Pinelawn Advertisement
A pull page advertisement, honoring Memorial Day, that appeared in Long Island’s Newsday newspaper on Friday, May 27, 1977.
Memory Book 2
A Memory Book, made for Temple Beth-El, Providence, RI, 1955.
Memorial Book Page
A page from a memorial book, made for Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island in 1955.
John Baskerville
Portrait of printer and typographer John Baskerville, used on the cover of a keepsake for a lecture by John Dreyfus at Gallery 303 in 1971.
John Baskerville Keepsake
Portrait of the printer and typographer John Baskerville for the cover or a folder, containing a specimen of Baskerville types. The specimen was “Printed in Great Great Britain at the University Printing House, Cambridge, as a keepsake for a lecture by John Dreyfus at Gallery 303 on 17 November 1971″
The Four Chaplains
Washington Park Cemetery already had a sculpture of the four chaplains and presumably wanted to build a mausoleum with this theme as well.The four chaplains (two Protestant, one Catholic and one Jewish) served on th S.S. Dorchester, when it was torpedoed in the north Atlantic on February 3, 1943. The four sacrificed their gear and ultimately themselves to comfort and to save the lives of as many of the men in their care as possible.
The promotional material for Washington Park Cemetery–North states:
Here is a resting place as different from gloomy, depressing cemeteries of the past as day is from night . . . a park-like estate of inspiring and uplifting beauty . . . a sanctuary where children can come without fear or forboding.
Here you will find no overgrown or neglected graves, no tombstones to disturb the tranquil beauty of the scene. Instead, the eye will encounter only natures’s bountiful gifts, exquisitely sculptured shrines, Bible Gardens, and religious works of art.
This projected mausoleum, featuring the four chaplains, was not built
Graphic for Emmy Roth
Silversmith Emmy Roth (1885–1942) left Germany in 1933 for France. Two years later she emigrated to Palestine.
