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LETTERING • LOGOS • LETTERFORMS • ALPHABETS • TYPOGRAPHY • CALLIGRAPHY • ETC

01/30/17--05:00: Frederic William Goudy in Censuses, Directories and Passenger Lists

The Inland Printer, April 1899

1870 United States Federal Census
Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois
Name / Age / Occupation
John F Gowdy, 39, superintendent of schools
Amanda M Gowdy, 39
Charles Gowdy, 13
Fredrick W Gowdy, 5
Fannie Gowdy, 2
Amanda Gowdy, 2 months
Mary Senate, 14, servant

1880 United States Federal Census
Butler, Montgomery County, Illinois
Name / Age / Occupation
John F. Gowdy, 48, teacher
Amanda M. Gowdy, 48
Frederick W. Gowdy, 15
Josie T. Gowdy, 10

1885 South Dakota Territorial Census
Highmore, Hyde County, Dakota Territory
Name / Age / Occupation
John F Goudy, 54, real estate
Fred W Goudy, 20, real estate

1892 Chicago, Illinois, Voter Registration
F. W. Goudy, 4301 Oakenwald Avenue

Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index
Frederic W. Goudy, 32
Bertha M. Sprinks, 27
June 2, 1897, Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois

1900 United States Federal Census
Carol Avenue, Cicero, Cook County, Illinois
Name / Age / Occupation
Frederick W Goudy, 34, art designer
Bertha W Goudy, 30
Frederic T Goudy, 5 months
Harriette E Sprinks, 53 [Goudy’s mother-in-law]
Elsa C Sprinks, 29 [Goudy’s sister-in-law]

1909 Passenger List
Name: Frederic William Goudy
Home Address: 358 East 28th Street, Brooklyn, New York
Departure Date: August 18, 1909
Port of Departure: Cherbourg, France
Arrival Date: August 25, 1909
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Oceanic

1910 New York, New York, City Directory
Fred W Goudy, decorator, 225 5th Avenue, Room 1029; 353 West 117th Street (home)

1910 United States Federal Census
405 Seventh Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Name / Age / Occupation
Frederic W Goudy, 45, decorative designer
Bertha M Goudy, 40
Frederic T Goudy, 10

1910 Passenger List
Name: Mr. Fred Goudy
Name: Mrs. Bertha Goudy
Name: Master Frederic Goudy
Departure Date: August 20, 1910
Port of Departure: Havre, France
Arrival Date: August 30, 1910
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Chicago

1911 New York, New York, City Directory
Fred W Goudy, designer, 37 East 28th Street, Room 909

1912 New York, New York, City Directory
Fred W Goudy, designer, 39 East 28th Street, Room 909

Polk’s (Trow’s) New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, 1912
Goudy, Fred W., Co. (N.Y.) Frederick [sic] W. Goudy, Pres.; Charles H. Barnard, Sec. Capital, $20,000. Directors: Frederick W. Goudy, Charles H. Barnard, Winford J. Northup) 132 Madison Avenue

1913 New York, New York, City Directory
Fred W Goudy, president, 132 Madison Avenue; 405 7th Street, Brooklyn (home)
Fred W Goudy Co, publishers, 132 Madison Avenue

1913 Passenger List
Name: Frederic William Goudy
Name: Frederic Truesdale Goudy
Home Address: 405 7th Street, Brooklyn, New York
Departure Date: July 15, 1913
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: July 24, 1913
Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts
Ship Name: Arabic

1914 Passenger List
Name: Frederic W Goudy
Home Address: Forest Hills Gardens, New York
Departure Date: August 15, 1914
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: August 22, 1914
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: St Louis

1915 New York State Census
40 Deepdene Road, Forest Hills, Queens County, New York
Name / Age / Occupation
Frederick [sic] W Goudy, 50, designer
Bertha M Goudy, 45
Frederick [sic] T Goudy, 15

1916 New York, New York, City Directory
Frederick W Goudy, type designer, 2 East 29th Street; Forest Hills (home)

1917 New York, New York, City Directory
Frederick W Goudy, artist, 2 East 29th Street; Forest Hills (home)

Artist listing: Frederick W Goudy, 2 East 29th Street

Designers and Draughtsmen listing: Frederick N [sic] Goudy, 2 East 29th Street

1920 United States Federal Census
40 Deepdene Road, Forest Hills, Queens, New York
Name / Age / Occupation
Fred Goudy, 53, designer/type
Bertha Goudy, 50, composer/books

1921 Passport Application
Fred William Goudy, type designer, Forest Hills, New York
Witness: Hal Marchbanks, printer, Marchbanks Press, 114 East 13th Street, New York, New York

1921 Passenger List
Name: Fred W Goudy
Home Address: 40 Deepdene Road, Forest Hills Gardens, New York
Departure Date: July 16, 1921
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: July 25, 1921
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Baltic

1922 New York, New York, City Directory
Frederick W Goudy, president, Village Letter Foundry, Forest Hills (home)

1925 New York, New York, City Directory
Fred W Goudy, manager, Marchbanks Press Inc, 114 East 13th Street

1925 Passenger List
Name: Fred W Goudy
Name: Bertha M Goudy
Home Address: Marlborough, New York
Departure Date: July 11, 1925
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: July 19, 1925
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Carmania

1929 Newburgh, New York, City Directory
Frederick [sic] W and Bertha M Goudy, type designers, South Main

1930 United States Federal Census
South Main Street, Marlboro, Ulster County, New York
Name / Age / Occupation
Frederic W Goudy, 65, type designer/type manufacturer
Bertha M Goudy, 60, typography/type manufacturer
Frederic T Goudy, 31, type work/type manufacturer
Mary A Goudy, 26

1930 Passenger List

Name: Frederick W Goudy

Home Address: Marlborough, New York

Departure Date: July 19, 1930

Port of Departure: Liverpool, England

Arrival Date: July 27, 1930

Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts

Ship Name: Cedric

1935 Passenger List
Name: Fred Goudy
Departure Date: November 16, 1935
Port of Departure: New York, New York
Arrival Date: November 29, 1935
Port of Arrival: San Diego, California
Ship Name: California

1936 Newburgh, New York, City Directory
Frederick W Goudy, type designer and founder, South Main

1938 Newburgh, New York, City Directory
Frederick W Goudy, type designer and founder, South Main

1940 United States Federal Census
Marlboro Street, Marlborough, Ulster County, New York
Value of Home: $25,000
Name / Age / Occupation
Fred W Goudy, 75, designer of type
Fred T Goudy, 41, caster of type
Alice M Goudy, 36

1940 Passenger List
Name: Frederic Goudy
Departure Date: July 12, 1940
Port of Departure: Los Angeles, California
Arrival Date: July 17, 1940
Port of Arrival: Honolulu, Hawaii
Ship: Matsonia

1940 Passenger List
Name: Frederic Goudy
Departure Date: July 26, 1940
Port of Departure: Honolulu, Hawaii
Arrival Date: July 31, 1940
Port of Arrival: Los Angeles, California; bound for San Francisco, California
Ship: Lurline

Arts & Decoration, September 1919

(Next post on Monday: The Hawkeye Yearbook, 1937, 1943)

02/06/17--05:00: The Hawkeye Yearbook, 1937, 1943

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The Cactus 1929

(Next post on Monday: Ernest C. Riedl)

02/13/17--05:00: Letterer: Ernest C. Riedl

ERNEST CHARLES RIEDL

New York, New York, Birth Index

(Ancestry.com)
Name: Ernst Riedl
Birth Date: 9 Feb 1890
Birth Place: Manhattan, New York

1900 United States Federal Census
1015 Third Avenue
Manhattan, New York, New York

Name / Age / Occupation
Charles Riedl, 47 [Austrian emigrant; hotel employee]
Fannie Riedl, 32 [Austrian emigrant]
Ernest Riedl, 10
Frank Pichl, 38 [Boarder]
Frieda Pichl, 22 [Boarder]

1909 Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: 214 E 23d
Occupation: Artist

1910 Baltimore, Maryland, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: 214 E 23d
Occupation: Artist

1910 United States Federal Census
214 East Twenty-Third Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Name / Age / Occupation
Charles Riedl, 57, Steward/Hotel
Fannie Riedl, 41
Ernest Riedl, 20, Designer/Engraving Company
William Barton, 50 [Boarder]
Mabel Barton, 34 [Boarder]

1912 Plainfield, New Jersey, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: Woodland av

The Graphic Arts

February 1915
The Work of Ernest C. Riedl
Unconventionality—along word and along stretch getting there consistently. There is a distinction 'between some of the shallow “original” eccentricities of to- day and true unconventionality built primarily on a solid foundation. The character and experience of Ernest C. Riedl have made feasible unconventionality a possibility.

After achieving success in the beaten paths, instructing in various schools, and in the one which taught him five years (the Maryland Institute of Baltimore), a pupil of C. Y. Turner, and winning the grand prize medal he sacrificed all and came to New York.

The fact that he has studied lettering and historic ornament from the very root, and, tiring of so-called “interpretations,” his soul revolting against monotony, again reflects his discontented progress. He is never idle, is always striving for something new, despises monotony, for he will never

“Walk to the grave in sackcloth
For even one short sleep
In the Castle of Indolence.”

and, incidental to his character, this talented fellow modestly informs me that there is nothing interesting about himself, while I know him to be an accomplished pianist and author as well.

His latest wrinkle is to introduce humor, be it ever so subtle; attributed to his occasional contributions to Judge and Life. Unlike the serious conventional design, his drawing, through its compelling interest, impresses the memory. With a light-hearted touch he can make a cold and soulless commercial “proposition” bristle with interest; be it boilers or coffin nails, the impression lingers . His prolific mind loves to overcome obstacles.

To “get away from the mob,” he has secluded himself, amid five acres of woodland, outside of Westfield, N.J., in a beautiful studio-bungalow, which may be credited for having inspired the strong compositions, the originality, and the mastery of line which have placed Ernest C. Riedl among the leaders of his class to-day.

World War I Draft Card
Name: Ernest Charles Riedl
Address: Woodland Avenue, Westfield
County: Union
State: New Jersey
Birthplace: New York
Birth Date: 9 Feb 1890
Age: 27
Occupation: Self-employed Artist and International Magazine Company,
119 West 40th Street, New York City
Nearest Relative: Mother and Father
Height/Build: Tall/Slender
Color of Eyes/Hair: Blue/Light
Disability: Deaf in right ear; right eye bad; fallen arches in both feet
Signature: June 5, 1917

1917 Plainfield, New Jersey, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: Woodland av nr W Broad

1919 Plainfield, New Jersey, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: Woodland av

1920 United States Federal Census
Woodland Avenue
Westfield, New Jersey
Name / Age / Occupation
Charles Riedl, 66, Teacher of Music
Fanny Riedl, 52
Ernest C Riedl, 29, Designer/Art Goods

1921 Plainfield, New Jersey, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: Woodland av

1924 Plainfield, New Jersey, City Directory
Name: Ernest C Riedl
Street address: Woodland av, M

New York, Passenger List
One of many voyages to Bermuda by Riedl who changed the spelling of his surname to Riedel.

Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 1? April 1928
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 19 April 1928
Ship Name: Bermuda

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 30 April 1929
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 2 May 1929
Ship Name: Bermuda

1930 United States Federal Census
Woodland Avenue
Westfield, New Jersey
Name / Age / Occupation
Ernest C Riedel, 40, Commercial Artist
Fannie Riedel, 62

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 25 April 1936
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 27 April 1936
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 1 May 1937
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 3 May 1937
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Arrival Date: 30 April 1938
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 2 May 1938
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

1940 United States Federal Census
507 Wychwood Road
Westfield, New Jersey
Name / Age / Occupation
Ernest C Riedel, 50, [blank]
Almeda Riedel, 43
Ernest Witte, 76 {Riedel’s Uncle]
Jacob Reichald, 57, Gardener

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 30 April 1940
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 2 May 1940
Ship Name: President Roosevelt

World War II Draft Card
Name: Ernest Charles Riedel
Address: 507 Wynchwood Road, Westfield, New Jersey
Employer: Self
Height/Weight: 6’ 0” / 176 lbs
Eyes/Hair: Blue/Blonde
Signature: April 27, 1942

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest C Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Departure Date: 2 May 1947
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 5 May 1947
Ship Name: Fort Amherst

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Bermuda
Departure Date: 10 May 1950
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 12 May 1950
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Departure Place: New York, New York, USA
Departure Date: 29 Dec 1950
Ship: Queen of Bermuda
Port: New York

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Bermuda
Departure Date: 2 May 1951
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 4 May 1951
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Departure Place: New York, New York, USA
Departure Date: 5 Jan 1952
Ship: Queen of Bermuda
Port: New York

New York, Passenger List
Name: Ernest Riedel
Companion: Almeda Riedel
Port of Departure: Bermuda
Departure Date: 30 April 1952
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Arrival Date: 2 May 1952
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda

Social Security Death Index
Name: Ernest Riedel
Last Residence: 07091 Westfield, Union, New Jersey
Born: 9 Feb 1890
Died: Jan 1970
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (1964)

(Next post on Monday: J. F. Griswold “The Rude...” Artist)

02/20/17--05:00: Creator: J. F. Griswold “The Rude…” Artist

Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” was exhibited in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art at New York City’s 69th Regiment Armory. Some of the art in the “Armory Show” was parodied by cartoonists. A parody of Duchamp’s painting, published in the New York Evening Sun on March 20, 1913, was J. F. Griswold’s “The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway)”. Griswold’s illustration was part of the series “Seeing New York With a Cubist”. The previous day the Evening Sun published Griswold’s “A Spring Day on Fifth Avenue”.

“The Rude Descending a Staircase” has been reproduced and referenced in numerous books, periodicals and websites but no one has identified who Griswold was. There was a cartoonist named Bert J. Griswold who was based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but his style looks nothing like the two Evening Sun drawings signed J. F. Griswold. Circumstantial evidence in censuses, city directories and periodicals point to Julia Frances Griswold as the artist.

According to the New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, at Ancestry.com, Griswold was born April 12, 1881, in Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey. Her parents were Warren Griswold (1845–1887) and Lydia Griswold (1847–1920). The 1880 U.S. Federal Census recorded Griswold’s parents, two older brothers, Ralph and Chauncey, and paternal grandmother, Frances, in Chatham, New Jersey. Griswold’s father was a bookkeeper.

The 1895 New Jersey state census listed Griswold, her mother, brothers and grandmother as residents of Chatham, New Jersey.

According to the 1900 census, the quintet lived in Madison, New Jersey at 38 Fairview Avenue. The birth month and year of each person were also recorded. The census said 1882 was the birth year for Griswold who was at school. Her mother and grandmother were unemployed; Ralph was a draftsman; and Chauncey, a cashier. They had a servant.

Information regarding Griswold’s art training has not been found. Griswold has not been found in the 1910 census. A 1912 New York City directory listed Griswold as an artist who lived at 100 West 76 Street in Manhattan. She was not in the 1913 and 1914 directories.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 15, 1912, published an article, “Idleness in Women Menace to Society”, that reported the happenings at the Central Evening High School for Women. Griswold and two others were judges of the costume design category and they chose three women for the roll of honor.

The Armory Show was in New York City from February 17 to March 15, 1913. Five days after the exhibition, Griswold’s “The Rude Descending a Staircase” was published. It’s a mystery as to how Griswold was chosen for the series “Seeing New York With a Cubist”. Seven months after the exhibition, The New York Times, October 10, 1913, reported the names of appointed teachers in the evening, high, trade, and elementary schools. Griswold taught Design for Dressmaking at the Manhattan Trade School.

The New York Times, April 26, 1914, covered the exhibition by members of the New York Paint Club. The artists included Griswold, Frank A. Nankivell, Howard Heath, Adele Klaer, Israel Doskow, David Robinson, George W. Parker, C. W. Fairchild, Harriet S. Phillips, Laetitia Herr and W. W. Faucett.

It’s not clear how and when Griswold met the Schneider sisters: Sophie the artist, and Frances the writer. They traveled together starting July 24, 1914 as recorded on their Emergency Passport Applications. Also notable is Griswold’s birth year on the application, 1882, that is a year later than the birth index date. At the time of the application, the trio stayed at Suttie’s Hotel, Bedford Park, London.

A passenger list, at Ancestry.com, had Griswold’s full name and said she departed Liverpool, England on October 7, 1914, and arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 19. According to the passenger list, Griswold was an artist who was born in Madison, New Jersey and whose home address was 38 Fairview Avenue, Madison, New Jersey. The Schneider sisters were on the same ship and their address was 100 West 76 Street, Manhattan, New York City.

Griswold was listed at 100 West 76 Street in the 1915, 1916 and 1917 New York City directories. In 1915, she was a school teacher, then in 1916 and 1917, an artist.

Griswold was at the same address in the 1920 census. She shared an apartment with four women. The head of the household was artist Sophie Schneider; Frances Schneider was a writer. Mary Smith did housework; and Dorothy H. Purinton was a commercial artist.

On December 23, 1922, Griswold and Thomas E. McCoy married in Manhattan according to the New York, New York, Marriage Index at Ancestry.com.

The 1925 New York state census listed Griswold (as Julia McCoy), her husband McCoy, an electrician, and Sophie Schneider in Manhattan at 423 West 23 Street.

The 1930 census said the trio resided in Manhattan at 439 West 21 Street and both women were commercial artists.

The New York Times, March 22, 1931, published a death notice for Griswold.

Julia Griswold McCoy, wife of Thomas E. McCoy 439 West 21st St., suddenly, on March 20. Funeral services at 38 Fairview Av., Madison, N.J., on Sunday, at 3 P.M.

Griswold was laid to rest at John Hancock Cemetery, Florham Park, Morris County, New Jersey.

The New York, New York, Death Index recorded Thomas McCoy’s passing as December 3, 1946, in Manhattan. The status of Sophie Schneider is not known.

(Next post on Monday: Bierman Heidelberg & Co)

02/27/17--05:00: Lettering: Bierman Heidelberg & Co

The Clothier and Furnisher

August 1889

September 1889

October 1889

November 1889

December 1889

January 1890

Items of Interest from the Stock of Bierman, Heidelberg & Co
1891
Selected pages

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(Next post on Monday: McCrorey Building)

03/06/17--05:00: Creator: Alan Aldridge

ALAN ALDRIDGE
June 1, 1943 – February 17, 2017

The Guardian
February 20, 2017
How Alan Aldridge made the 60s swing – in pictures

The Guardian
February 22, 2017
Alan Aldridge obituary

Design Week
February 24, 2017
Remembering Alan Aldridge: the revolutionary graphic designer of the “swinging sixties”

The Telegraph
February 28, 2017
Alan Aldridge, Sixties psychedelic illustrator – obituary

Famous Graphic Designers
Alan Aldridge

Alan Aldridge at the Design Museum

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969)

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 2 (1971)

Bernie Taupin: The One Who Writes the Words for Elton John (1976)

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1973; 2009)

The Peacock Party (1979)

The Ship’s Cat (1977)

Further Reading

Vintage Children’s Book: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast, Part One; Part Two; Part Three

The Penguin Book of Comics (1967)
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes: The Art of Alan Aldridge (2009)

(Next post on Monday: Stat Store Publishing)

03/13/17--05:00: Street Scene: Captain America at Liberty View

• S U N S E T P A R K , B R O O K L Y N •

Liberty View

850 3rd Avenue (at 31st Street)

About the designer, Dave Cortes
Related post: Avengers: Age of Awnings

(Next post on Monday: Comics for Collectors)

03/20/17--05:00: Street Scene: Comics for Collectors, Ithaca, New York

• I T H A C A, N E W Y O R K •

Comics for Collectors

207 North Aurora Street

The Comic Book Club of Ithaca

ITHACON 42

(Next post on Monday: Liberty)

03/27/17--05:00: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Quote credited to Ernest Benn (Sir John Pickstone Benn)

Life
August 8, 1912
see bottom right-hand corner of page 1562

Rockford Register-Gazette
(Illinois)
August 15, 1912
page 8, column 2: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.—Life.

San Francisco Chronicle
(California)
April 8, 1917
Cartoonagrams by Charles A. Ogden
Second tier, first panel: Behold a chick getting it’s first liberty. Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Further Reading
The Big Apple

(Next post on Monday: Vivian Berg)

04/03/17--05:00: Letterer: Vivian Berg

Vivian Berg was born Vivian Lipman on January 4, 1923, in New Rochelle, New York.

In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Lipman family resided in New Rochelle, New York, at 43-45 North Avenue. Vivian was the youngest of four children born to Benjamin, a grocery store proprietor, and Mary, both Russian emigrants who arrived in the United States in 1905. Vivian’s siblings were born in Connecticut.

The Daily Argus (Mount Vernon, New York), September 19, 1939, published this item:

Tau Alpha Meeting
Tau Alpha will hold a meeting tonight at the home of Miss Vivian Lipman, 22 Burling Lane, at 9 o’clock.

According to the 1940 census, the Lipmans remained in New Rochelle but at a different address, 22 Burling Lane.

Women in Comics said Vivian studied at Cooper Union, where she met her future husband Dave Berg.

Women in Comics also said Vivian worked for MLJ (Archie) and Classics Illustrated in the 1940s. Women and the Comics (1985) mentioned Vivian twice. About the publisher MLJ, Women and the Comics said “Vivian Lipman Berg (who edited Archie and inked the art, wrote puzzle pages and text pieces for the company and scripted and drew ‘Three Monkey Teers‘).” Regarding Timely Comics, the book said “Vivian Lipman Berg wrote text pieces for the company in 1942”.

According to Who’s Who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada (1995), Vivian and Berg married on March 3, 1949.

The Orangetown Telegram (Pearl River, New York), December 8, 1950, reported the South Main P.T.A. enrollment drive and said: “The kindergarten, registering 113%, had a separate party in the Parish House of St. Paul's Episcopal Church under the direction of the teacher, Miss Vivian Lipman.”

In the 1960s, Vivian was a letterer for DC Comics. Two titles she worked on were Doom Patrol #117 (below) and Superboy #118.

Dave Berg was profiled in the Daily News (Tarrytown, New York), on April 17, 1977. Berg was asked where he got his ideas for his long-running MAD feature “The Lighter Side”.

Everywhere, he answers, saying his wife, Vivian, loves to read so she helps with the research. For example, for a “lighter side of modern technology,” she read the book “Future Shock” for ideas. Discussion and the comic followed.

MAD’s Greatest Artists: Dave Berg: Five Decades of “The Lighter Side Of…” (2013) has a sample of Vivian and Dave in “The Lighter Side of…Teenage Phases” from MAD #248, July 1984.

At some point, Vivian and her family moved to Marina Del Rey, California.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Vivian was a magazine writer and illustrator according to Who’s Who of American Comics Books 1928–1999.

Vivian’s husband died in 2002. Vivian passed away December 21, 2014, in California.

(Next post on Monday: McCrorey Building)

04/10/17--05:00: Typography: Stat Store Publishing

Stat Store 1988 brochure of services and prices was designed by Alexander Isley.
Brochure is in the collection of the North Carolina State University Libraries.

Brochure sleeve, front and back
3.5 x 3.5 inches / 8.9 x 8.9 centimeters

Panels 1–2

Panels 3–4

Panels 5–6

Panels 7–8

Panels 9–10

Panels 11–12

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The Stat Store

(Next post on Monday: McCrorey Building)

04/17/17--05:00: Street Scene: McCrorey Building

•NEWYORKCITY•

West 18th Street near 6th Avenue, Manhattan

(Next post on Monday: Hollywood Type Casting)

04/24/17--05:00: Comics: Carl Burgos

Carl Burgos was born Max Finkelstein on April 18, 1916, in New York, New York. The birth date is based on the Social Security Death Index and his parents’ petitions for naturalization at Ancestry.com.

Burgos’s father was Isidor Finkelstein, a tailor, whose naturalization petition, dated December 13, 1923, said he was born in Moghielev, Russia, on October 25, 1886. (Isidor’s World War II draft card said his birth was October 15, 1886 in Zlobin, Russia.) He sailed on the steamship Merion which departed Antwerp, Belgium, on November 16, 1907. The ship arrived in New York City on November 29, 1907. Isidor became a naturalized citizen February 14, 1927.

Burgos’s mother was Ester Bielin, a dressmaker, whose naturalization petition said she was born in Stressin, Russia, on March 2, 1886. She sailed on the steamship Samland which departed from Antwerp, Belgium. The ship arrived in New York City on April 2, 1907. She married Isidor on August 26, 1911. On the petition, dated June 27, 1941, her first name was spelled Esther. She became a naturalized citizen July 16, 1942.

Burgos’s brother, Rubin Finkelstein, was born March 2, 1912, in New York City. Rubin married Clara Cantor on March 30, 1935 in Manhattan, according to the New York, New York, Marriage Index at Ancestry.com. Clara passed away May 22, 1996. Rubin passed away May 20, 2003.

The 1920 U.S. Federal Census recorded the Finkelsteins in Manhattan, New York City at 191 East 100 Street.

The same address was in the 1925 New York state census.

In the 1930 census, the Finkelstein family resided in the Bronx at 945 Faile Street.

In the Steranko History of Comics (1970), page 58, Steranko wrote:

The man responsible for the inflammable fury [The Human Torch] was Carl Burgos. Born in New York in 1917 [sic], his childhood was little different than most others except for his natural artistic talent and unruly imagination. In his early teens he enrolled in the National Academy of Design. “I quit after one year because I couldn’t learn enough,” Burgos says.

At 17, he took a job with the Franklin Engraving Company which just happened to be the firm that engraved the plates for a line of comic books produced by Harry A. Chesler. For the first time, Burgos was exposed to stacks of original comic art. Whenever possible, he took the time to study the artist’s techniques, their pen styles and brush strokes. He discovered he could draw as well as some and better than a few who already worked in comics. He formulated an idea about becoming a comic artist. What could he lose?

An overview of Burgos’s comics career is at Who’s Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Many of his comic book credits are at the Grand Comics Database. A collection of images from Google is here.

According to the 1940 census, Burgos and his parents lived at 602 West 157th Street in Manhattan. Burgos’s occupation was artist in the newspaper industry. He had completed four years of high school.

A 1942 Manhattan city directory had this listing: “Burgos Carl 602W157…..AU dubn 3-4117”.

During World War II, Burgos enlisted as Max Finkelstein. In the Steranko History of Comics, Burgos said “I started in the Air Force, took infantry ranger training, went overseas as a rifleman, was transferred to the Signal Corps, and came back in the engineers. It sounds crazy, but it could only happen to a comic book man.” The Department of Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, at Ancestry. com, said he was discharged March 18, 1946.

Alter Ego #49, June 2005, published “The Privacy Act of Carl Burgos”, Jim Amash’s interview with Burgos’s daughter Susan, a teacher and animation artist. She mentioned her mother, Doris, sister, Linda, grandparents and uncle. Doris’s Social Security application, at Ancestry.com, had her full maiden name. In July 1947 her name was Doris Finkelstein, then in September 1948 she was Doris Burgos.

In 1968 Burgos filed copyright renewals on his creation, the Human Torch. The renewal registrations were published in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 22, Part 1, Number 1, Section 1, Books and Pamphlets, Current and Renewal Registrations, January–June 1968, on page 1256

and in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 22, Part 1, Number 2, Section 1, Books and Pamphlets, Current and Renewal Registrations, July–December 1968, on pages 2761 and 2762.

Burgos’s copyright renewal filings were mentioned in the article “The true story of life at Marvel Comics in the glory days of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee”.

Burgos passed away March 5, 1984, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS file. American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (2013) said Burgos died on March 7. The Social Security Death Index said Burgos’s last residence was Franklin Square, New York. His wife, Doris, passed away January 2, 2002.

Further Reading
Timely-Atlas-Comics: Happy 100th Birthday To Carl Burgos
Comics Alliance
The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds
The Beat: When Carl Burgos tried to sue for the Human Torch
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
Sub-Mariner & The Original Human Torch, Volume 1
Alter Ego #108, April 2012: “With the Fathers of Our Heroes”
Find a Grave
Lambiek Comiclopedia
Wikipedia

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Old Waldorf Bar Days
With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail; Also, a Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores
Albert Stevens Crockett
Aventine Press, 1931
page 117: Ampersand
Two dashes Orange Bitters
One-third Brandy
One-third Tom Gin
One-third Italian Vermuth [sic]
Stir; strain; two dashes of Curacao on top

The American Printer
March 1937
page 44: Re: Ampersand Cocktail
As promised on page 26, we give below ingredients and directions for making the Ampersand Cocktail, formerly a favorite in the barroom of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street....

The ingredients are:
Two dashes orange bitters
One-third brandy
One-third Tom gin
One-third Italian vermouth
Two dashes of Curacao on top

Directions: Put the ingredients into a shaker in the order named, then add cracked ice—shake vigorously and strain into the cocktail glass and serve promptly. The more you shake it, the weaker it gets.

Special Editorial P.S. The one we got at the Ampersandinner must have been shaken early. It was potent!

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

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2009 exhibition at the Japan Society

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Punch
April 17, 1869
&
Of all the types in a printer’s hand,
Commend me to the Amperzand,
For he’s the gentleman (seems to me)
Of the typographical companie.
O, my nice little Amperzand,
My graceful, swanlike Amperzand;
Nothing that Cadmus ever planned
Equals my elegant Amperzand!

He’s never bothered, like A.B.C.
In Index, Guide, and Directorie:
He’s never stuck on a Peeler’s coat,
Nor hung to show where the folks must vote.
No, my nice little Amperzand,
My plumb and curly Amperzand.
When I’ve a pen in a listless hand,
I’m always making an Amperzand!

Many a letter your writers hate,
Ugly q, with his tall so straight,
x, that makes you cross as a bear,
And z, that makes you with zouns to swear.
But not my nice little Amperzand,
My easily dashed off Amperzand,
Any odd shape folks understand
To mean my Protean Amperzand!

Nothing for him that’s starch or stiff,
Never he’s used in scold or tiff,
State epistles, so dull and grand,
Mustn’t contain the shortened and.
No, my nice little Amperzand,
You’re good for those who’re jolly and bland,
In days when letters were dried with sand
Old frumps wouldn’t use my Amperzand!

But he is dear in old friendship’s call,
Or when love is laughing through lady-scrawl:
“Come & dine, & have bachelor’s fare,”
“Come, & I’ll keep you Round & Square.”
Yes, my nice little Amperzand
Never must into a word expand,
Gentle sign of affection stand,
My kind, familiar Amperzand.

“Letters Five do form his name:”
His, who Millions doth teach and tame:
If I could not be in that Sacred Band,
I’d be the affable Amperzand.
Yes, my nice little Amperzand,
And when P.U.N.C.H. is driving his five-in-hand,
I’ll have a velocipede, neatly planned
In the shape of a fly-away Amperzand.

Hanwell. Scandula Exoluta.

Reprinted in its entirety or in part in many publications

Every Saturday
May 15, 1869

Littell’s Living Age
June 19, 1869

Wit and Humour
(Poems from “Punch”)
Shirley Brooks
Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1875

The Christian Union
October 2, 1890

The Gentleman’s Magazine
November 1892

Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
November-December 1902
The Song of the Ampersand

T. P.’s Weekly
April 10, 1903
A Song of the &

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