Albert Schiller type pictures
1927-1964
- Collection Overview
- Organization and Arrangement
- Administrative Information
- Related Materials
- Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
- Collection Inventory
- Type Pictures
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Guide to the Albert Schiller type pictures, 1927-1964
Collection Overview
- Repository
- Kellen Design Archives
- Creator - Typographer
- Schiller, Albert, ca. 1899-1970
- Title
- Albert Schiller type pictures, 1927-1964
- Extent
- 1.8 linear ft: 1 oversize box
- Summary
- Typographer Albert Schiller (1898-1970) created artworks using pre-cast metal type elements. The collection is comprised of type pictures and printing samples featured in a 1976 exhibit at Parsons.
Organization and Arrangement
Matboards are arranged in chronological order by the items adhered to them. When more than one item appears on a board, the earliest date is used.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Kellen Design Archives January 13, 2011
66 5th Ave./lobby level/
New York, NY, 10011
212.229.5942
archivist@newschool.edu
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the Kellen Design Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Related Materials
The Los Angeles Public Library and the Rochester Institute of Technology hold related collections of Albert Schiller's work. A reference file on Albert Schiller is available in the Kellen Design Archives.
Keywords for Searching Related Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
- Advertising Agencies' Service Company.
Genre(s)
- Bookmarks.
- Christmas cards.
- Exhibition records.
- Newsletters.
- Samples.
Subject(s)
- Advertising layout and typography.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Printing -- Specimens.
Collection Inventory
| Type Pictures | ||||
| Title | Box | Folder | ||
| Bookmarks featuring poetry quotations, before 1964 | OSxxx-1 | 1 | ||
| A Christmas Most Merry [poster], after 1938 | OSxxx-1 | 2 | ||
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Includes titles of other type pictures in the collection. |
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| Second Church, 1927 | OSxxx-1 | 3 | ||
| The Machine, 1927 | OSxxx-1 | 4 | ||
| Printing samples, 1928-1950 | OSxxx-1 | 5 | ||
| The Mandarin, 1930 | OSxxx-1 | 6 | ||
| The Fountain, 1931 | OSxxx-1 | 7 | ||
| A Toast at Christmas, 1934 | OSxxx-1 | 8 | ||
| At the Opera, 1935 | OSxxx-1 | 9 | ||
| Approach to the City, 1937 | OSxxx-1 | 10 | ||
| Isometric City, Typewasset holiday card, 1937, 1951 | OSxxx-1 | 11 | ||
| The Antique Shop, 1938 | OSxxx-1 | 12 | ||
| From a Penthouse Window, 1939 | OSxxx-1 | 13 | ||
| New York Post clipping "Fire the Artist and Buy a Robot," 1938 Jan 11 | OSxxx-1 | 14 | ||
| The Ampersand Machine, 1940 | OSxxx-1 | 15 | ||
| Poster for retrospective exhibition at Long Island University, 1948 | OSxxx-1 | 16 | ||
| A Christmas Broadway, 1950 | OSxxx-1 | 17 | ||
| Type Talks Newsletter, New York Chimes newsletter, 1950, 1964 | OSxxx-1 | 18 | ||
| Totems in the Great Northwest, 1952 | OSxxx-1 | 19 | ||
| The Museum, 1954 | OSxxx-1 | 20 | ||