Jim Crow
Jim Crow is the American Type Founders' 1933 and 1949 re-casting of the Dickinson Type Foundry's type of the 1850s, Gothic Shade. Dickenson, a Boston type foundry, had been incorporated into ATF in the original merger of 1892. The face was also known as Tombstone.
Jim Crow
- Name
- Jim Crowe
- Period
- 1850
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ATF only cast the face in 24 point, but later versions by the Los Angeles Type Foundry were cast from 18 to 30 point. It was often used to indicate political motifs. While cold type versions were popular right through the 1970s, no major foundry has issued a digital version, and it is seldom used today.
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• Name — Jim Crowe • Style — Display • Classifications — Grotesque sans-serif • Releasedate — 1850, 1933, 1949 • Foundry — Dickinson Type Foundry • Foundries — ATF, Los Angeles Type Foundry, Skyline Type Foundry • Sample — * Illustration — Jim Crow sample text
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1850
Jim Crow first recorded.
1850
Jim Crow is recorded from 1850.
1850
Jim Crow was established or created in 1850.
2007
Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights movement: abridged edition of From Jim Crow to civil rights: the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality (2007) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Jim Crow (typeface), revision 1280044687 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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