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Creator: Professor G.A. Gaskell

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George Arthur Gaskell
April 21, 1844, Penn Yan, New York – Mid-April 1885, Jersey City, New Jersey

Portrait from Gaskell's Compendium of Forms (1882)

1860 U.S. Federal Census
Name: George A Gaskell
Age in 1860: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1860: Richmond, Ashtabula, Ohio
Gender: Male
Post Office: Richmond Center
Value of real estate: 
Household Members:
Name / Age
Benjamin Gaskell, 38, Merchant
Mercy Gaskell, 35
George A Gaskell, 16
Silas E Gaskell, 13
Julius S Gaskell, 9
Laura T Gaskell, 5

Daily State Gazette
(Trenton, New Jersey)
March 17, 1866
A change has been made in the resident principalship of the Trenton Business College. Professor G.A. Gaskell, an accomplished instructor, has now this institution, Profess Chamberlain having removed to another sphere of action. We commend this college as the means of furnishing improved facilities of acquiring a first rate business education. 

The Newark Daily Advertiser
(New Jersey)
October 18, 1866
Newark Business College


The Newark Daily Advertiser
November 14, 1866
Newark Business College


1870 U.S. Federal Census
Name: George A Gaskell
Age in 1870: 28
Birth Year: abt 1842
Birthplace: Ohio [sic]
Home in 1870: Jersey City Ward 1, Hudson, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Jersey
Value of real estate: 
Household Members:
Name / Age
Robert C Morton, 41 [Gaskell’s father-in-law]
Eomamin Morton, 29
Robert G Morton, 2
George A Gaskell, 28, Professor Penmanship
Sarah O Gaskell, 23


Jersey Journal
(Jersey City, New Jersey)
May 16, 1870
Prof. George A. Gaskell.

Moore’s Rural New Yorker
November 30, 1872
Bryant & Stratton College, Manchester, N.H.

(Michigan)
February 13, 1873
A Beautiful Handwriting.
There are but few of our readers who would not like to acquire a rapid and beautiful handwriting, for there is no one accomplishment so highly prized as this. The business colleges of the country have afforded the beat instruction in this branch and have succeeded in producing the most accomplished penmen. The best penman in America to-day is Prof. Gaskell, Pres’t of the Bryant & Stratton College of Manchester, N.H. There are few lovers of the beautiful art of penmanship who have not heard of this wonderful penman and many have seen specimens of his skill His large specimens have attracted great attention in New York city and throughout the country where they have been placed on exhibition.

He is now engaged day and night sending out copies of self-instruction, which he writes himself expressly for applicants, so that any one can learn to write at the home fireside. These contain full printed instruction, and are put up in large heavy envelopes and sent by mail prepaid for $1.00 per package. They are all numbered and so fully explained that no one can fail to learn rapidly from them. They have been ordered by thousands—not by poor writers alone, bat by the leading teachers of penmanship throughout the United States and Canada. Our readers would do well to write for a package, as nothing so complete, beautiful and useful for self-instruction will ever again be offered them.

Farmer’s Cabinet
(Amherst, New Hampshire)
March 26, 1873
A new compendium of Penmanship, comprised in a complete series of copy slips, has just been published by Prof. Gaskell, President of the Bryant & Stratton College, Manchester, N.H., who has long been known as the “Prince of American Penman,” and since the death of Father Spencer there has been no one to dispute this title. This Compendium is having a large sale throughout the country; as nothing so complete, beautiful and useful for self instruction has ever before been offered. It is sent by mail to any address for $1. Address Prof. G.A. Gaskell, Manchester, N.H.

Argus and Patriot
(Montpelier, Vermont)
April 19, 1873
Some time since an article appeared in the Argus and Patriot concerning Prof. G.A. Gaskell, of Manchester, N.H., who has advertised in various Vermont newspapers to send on receipt of $1.00 a series of self-instructing lessons, copies, etc., in penmanship.... 

Painesville Telegraph
(Ohio)
January 20, 1876
Gaskell’s Compendium.

Gaskell’s Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing
George A. Gaskell, 1879

The Youth’s Companion
May 1 and June 5, 1879
advertisements for Gaskell’s Compendium

Dodge City Times
(Kansas)
September 13, 1879
Self-Teaching Penmanship advertisement appeared in many newspapers.

Inter Ocean
(Chicago, Illinois)
September 4, 1879

Inter Ocean
September 18, 1879
No one accomplishment among business men is more highly prized than a neat and graceful handwriting. It is always a sure foundation for advancement with the young and aspiring clerk. But, unfortunately, the facilities for acquiring a really systematic handwriting are few and mostly expensive. The majority of young men in business cannot afford to give up their situations for a season to attend a business college. Mr. Gaskell, principal of one of the leading commercial schools of this country, has issued a system for self-teaching which is meeting with much favor from the best classes. The improvement of some that have used it is shown by photographic copies of handwriting on another page. The improved style of these young men is what we would consider the beau ideal of excellence in handwriting. It is free, bold, and yet plain. One of these young writers is now a teacher of penmanship in a business college in Brooklyn, N.Y.; another in Kentucky, and a third is in a first-class position in a railroad office in Detroit.

The above we clip from the Cincinnati Times. The improvement made in handwriting by this system is simply wonderful, an illustration of which is shown on the first page of the Inter Ocean of Sept. 4. It will pay examination.



1880 U.S. Federal Census
Name: George A. Gaskell
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1880: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son-in-law
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Sarah O. Gaskell
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Occupation: Teacher in School
Household Members:
Name / Age
Mary Scott 61
Joseph Scott 40
Robert Scott 31
Mary A. Scott 23
George A. Gaskell 36
Sarah O. Gaskell 32
Matilda Anderson 23

Gaskell’s Compendium of Forms Educational Social Legal and
Commercial, Embracing a Complete Self-Teaching Course in
Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition
Fairbanks, Palmer & Co., 1882

selected plates from Gaskell's Compendium of Forms (1883)

The Penman’s Hand-Book for Penmen and Students
G.A. Gaskell, 1883

Gaskell’s Guide to Writing, Pen-Flourishing,
Lettering, Business Letter-Writing, Etc.
The Office of “The Penman’s Gazette,” 1884

From the book, a Gaskell profile, selected plates,
and a page about his business college.

Jersey Journal
August 12, 1884
Advertisement


The Western Penman
May 1903
Some Reminiscences of a Queer Genius
and a Couple of Promising Youngsters
by Charles T. Cragin
memories of Gaskell, William E. Dennis,
and Austin N. Palmer

December 1922
The Golden Era of Ornamental Penmanship
by Horace G. Healey
Gaskell was born at Penn Yan, New York, April 21, 1844, and died in Jersey City the latter part of April, 1885. He surely crowded a great deal of life into his forty-one years.

When Gaskell was six years of age his father removed the family to Richmond Center, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. His father was a physician, interested in the manufacture and sale of patent medicines. He also manufactured an ink which was widely used in that section of the country. When Gaskell was in his early teens he went to Geneva and spent a short time with the elder Spencer. [Platt Rogers Spencer.] Then, at the age of sixteen, he entered the academy at Dundee, New York, where he pursued a course in the literary branches, at the same time teaching penmanship in that institution. After remaining there something like two years, he set out to see the world, and organized penmanship classes in several states. In 1864, at the age of twenty, he came to New York, and engaged with the Bryant & Stratton school in Newark, New Jersey. He taught a few months in Trenton, and then returned to Newark. In 1871 he went to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he had bought the Bryant & Stratton Business College on credit. He was there for several years, and then returned to New Jersey, conducting a business school in Jersey City. His school work from 1873 until the time of his death was entirely subordinated to the interests of his famous Compendium.

This was the pioneer publication of its kind. It consisted of a pamphlet of instructions, a large chart, and twenty plates of rather crudely [photo]engraved copies. More than two hundred and fifty thousand of these Compendiums were sold in ten years, at $1.00 per set. The source of the attractiveness of this Compendium lay in the fact that it was the photolithographic product of actual pen work. Prior to this time, and even much later, the usual penmanship book represented the skill of the engraver more than that of the writer. The very crudeness of the copies, therefore, made a strong appeal to the uninitiated, and thousands of country boys who purchased it were led, through it, to the very apex of penmanship attainment.

Gaskell was always a splendid writer. Make no mistake about that. No off-hand penman of his day could excel him. Coupled with his artistic genius was an equally strong talent for business. He knew how to reach the common people, and as a successful advertiser he took first rank. He spent thousands of dollars annually in the largest and best magazines, frequently using entire pages.

He also published several journals, most of them advertising his schools and publications, but the Penman's Gazette, which he published for about ten years, was a highly successful penmanship periodical.

Personally, he was a very attractive man, somewhat reserved and shy. Although he was constantly surrounded by fellow workers, yet no one could ever claim to be very intimate with him. He was tall, always well-dressed, and gave one the impression of refinement. In common with many others of that day, he was an unfortunate victim of the habit which the Eighteenth Amendment [prohibition of alcoholic beverages] is designed to prevent. One morning in April, 1885, some boys found his lifeless body among the marshes outside the city limits of Jersey City, and the world was poorer from that day, because George A. Gaskell had passed on. He left a widow, but no children.

His business, which had been built up entirely on his own personality and genius, was continued for a short time, but now his name is but a memory. A roll call of his former students at Manchester, and later at Jersey City, would include the names of many of the best known penmen of this country.


December 1936
G.A. Gaskell: A Pioneer Penman
by H.O. Keesling
G.A. Gaskell was one of America’s most skillful penmen. He was one of the best known penmen because of his national advertising. At the time the above flourish was made in 1880 he was in his prime. He conducted the Bryant and Stratton Business College in Manchester, N.H., where quite a number of America’s prominent penmen received some of their early inspiration. Notably among these penmen were L. Madarasz and W.E. Dennis. Gaskell advertised the work of these and other young penmen in magazines throughout the country and was one of the first to promote the “before and after” type of advertising. One of Mr. Gaskell’s former associates, L.G. Wilberton, M.D., now of Winona, Minn., writes as follows:

“About the year 1882-83 I accepted a position in the Bryant & Stratton College, Manchester, N.H., and remained with them a year as a teacher of Bookkeeping and other subjects. At that time Prof. G. A. Gaskell was president of that college. He was in the height of his penmanship skill.

Prof. Gaskell was still a young man and of excellent personal appearance. He would be classed as a handsome man, about six feet tall. His bearing, was erect and pleasing manners. He was a natural orator and speaker as well as a teacher of first rank. He excelled in teaching others. Penmanship was his favorite subject, and he did much to advance the study of good writing; in fact he became a national figure in the penmanship profession. He evolved a style of writing that was purely his own. He was a real artist and master in describing how each letter should be made, carefully showing the right and wrong way in forming letters and figures. The students soon became interested to learn how to write well. The results were that his students became excellent penmen and teachers.

Shortly after I left Manchester, Prof. Gaskell died. My opinion of him stands high and I am sorry he died so young.”


William E. Henning, Paul Melzer
Oak Knoll Press, 2002
Gaskell biography

Jersey Journal
April 18, 1885
Found Drowned
Is It Prof. Gaskell.
This afternoon a crowd of boys saw a body sticking in the mud in one of the creeks near the line of Brunswick street, between Eighth and Ninth streets. Edward Lyons, one of the boys, gave an alarm, and the body was drawn to solid ground. The police sent it to Speer’s morgue. Policemen and others who knew Prof. George A. Gaskell, of Gaskell’s business college, on Newark avenue, identified the body as that of that gentleman. The body was dressed in a full suit, including overcoat. A high silk was found near him. On the body were found a gold watch, chain and charm, a bundle of letters, and upon the little finger of the left hand a gold ring.

New-York Daily Tribune
April 19, 1885
Drowning of Professor Gaskell.
Professor George A. Gaskell, principal of Gaskell’s Business College, Nos. 23 and 25 Newark-ave., Jersey City, was found drowned yesterday in Mill Creek, between Eighth and Ninth sts. The water is very shallow at that point and it is supposed that Mr. Gaskell stumbled and, falling on his face, was smothered. He lived at 234 Fourth-st. He left the house on Friday night after supper and it is supposed that he missed his way and in wandering over the meadows fell into the creek. His body was discovered by two boys. His watch, chain and money were in his pockets, so that there is no suspicion that he was the victim of violence. The body was taken home by his friends. Professor Gaskell was noted as a fine penman and business instructor, and his business college has been successful.



New York Herald
April 19, 1885
Found Suffocated in the Mud. 
Professor George A. Gaskell, proprietor of the Jersey City Business College, was found dead yesterday in the mud, in the meadows, at the head of Ninth street, Jersey City. There were no marks of violence on the body, and his jewelry, money and papers were intact. Professor Gaskell had an unfortunate habit of indulging in protracted sprees at mooing intervals, and it is thought that he was under the influence of liquor when he wandered into the meadows, fell into a ditch and was suffocated in the mud. He left his home at No. 234 Fourth street on Tuesday morning, and his wife did not again see him alive. On Friday evening Frederick Luther saw him standing near the spot where his body was found. Professor Gaskell was the author of several text books on penmanship and bookkeeping. He was forty-two years old, and leaves a wife and several children.


Daily Patriot 
(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) 
April 20, 1885 
George A. Gaskell, principal of Gaskell’s business college, Newark, N.J., was found dead Saturday [April 18] morning, with his head and shoulders buried in the soft mud in a swamp, on Pavonia avenue, that city. His personal effects were untouched. His business was prosperous, and it is supposed that he accidentally fell over the street embankment. He had been away from home since Monday morning.



The Sabbath Recorder
(New York, New York)
April 30, 1885
Temperance.
Prof. Gaskell, one of the proprietors of the famous Gaskell Business School College, is reported to have been found dead by the way side one morning not long ago, the result of a habit of intemperance.


The New York Times
May 10, 1885
Not So Poor as She Thought.
When Prof. Gaskell was found dead in the mud at the upper end of Jersey City three weeks ago his wife assumed that he had left little property. He has been complaining before his death of being cramped for money to settle some bills, and when after his death Mrs. Gaskell discovered a deposit of $750 to his credit in the Hudson County Bank, she took it for granted that that was about all he had left, and applied for letters of administration. Because of the smallness of the estate the court decided that $1,500 was a large enough bond to require her to furnish, and she gave it. Yesterday she went into the Orphans’ Court to say that on examining her husband’s desk she was surprised to find bank books showing over $20,000 to his credit in banks in Boston, New-York, and Brooklyn. Two brothers of Prof. Gaskell appeared in court at the same time, accompanied by Assemblyman Corbin, their counsel. The widow was allowed to continue her administration of the estate, but the amount of her bond was increased to $30,000. She will be entitled to one-third of the estate. The brothers will divide the rest.


Further Reading
The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, Teachers of Handwriting
The Golden Age of Ornamental Penmanship



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Under Cover: Return of the Jedi

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George Lucas’s Return of the Jedi premiered May 25, 1983. On its 30th anniversary year, here is a look at designing two of the film-related books.

Ballantine Books had the license to publish Star Wars-related books, which were published either as a Ballantine or Del Rey book. Ballantine’s production manager, Fred Dodnick, offered the book design for Return of the Jedi: The Illustrated Edition and the Return of the Jedi Sketchbook to me. It was an easy decision. James Harris, Ballantine’s art director, designed the illustrated edition cover, which featured artwork by Ralph McQuarrie who was not credited in the book. The book was illustrated with storyboard artwork by Joe Johnston and Nilo Rodis-Jamero.


The tracing paper layout below shows the interior format of the Return of the Jedi: The Illustrated Edition. There are the width and depth of the text; the size of the margins; position of the running heads and folios (page numbers).



Samples pages of the the chapter opener, text spread, and illustrated spreads were requested for editorial approval. Seventy-seven photographs of artwork were supplied to me. The chapter opener (below) shows the chapter number, artwork and text with s drop cap. The text is dummy type, which was printed on self-adhesive, transparent sheets manufactured by LetraSet. 



The text spread with the the running head and folios.

An illustrated text spread with large artwork.

An illustrated text spread with small artwork.

The editor, Judy-Lynn Del Rey, approved the format. For the book I chose the font family ITC Galliard, which was designed by Matthew Carter. Dodnick said the total page count was 224 pages: eight pages for front matter (half-title page, copyright, and title page), and the remaining 216 pages for text and art. With the typescript manuscript, I had to do a “cast-off”: estimate the number of characters in the manuscript which would influence the size of the text type, the line width and the maximum number of lines on a page. The calculations involved a lot of multiplication and division. (If you want to know the method in detail, take a look at this page in the July 1912, Inland Printer.) And I had to account for the artwork.

While the manuscript was being typeset, I was working on an eight-page sample booklet, for use at book fairs, to solicit orders; below are three pages.


Below is my layout, drawn in marker, for the title page. Photo-Lettering was the typography house I used. A photostat of the film logo was given to me but I chose not to use it. 


In my file is a 30-year old, discolored diazo print of the title page type; it was one of two prints. The other print was cut apart used for paste-up on the mechanical.



Below are selected pages from the book.


Half-title page

Full title page

Page one did not use the ITC Galliard font.

Chapter opener

Text spread

Illustrated text spread


The Return of the Jedi Sketchbook featured artwork by Joe Johnston, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, Ralph McQuarrie and Norman Reynolds. The cover was designed by Ballantine’s art director, James Harris.



I do not have the original layouts but a four-page sample, using an early version of the book’s interior format, was produced for book fairs.






I did a color-coded thumbnail layout of the book: section pages in red and subject pages in blue. My initial layout used 94 of the 96 pages. Additional art was added after page 47. To note the change, I put asterisks on pages 48 and 49 and re-numbered the pages in blue.




I used the Crillee fonts for the section and subject titles. ITC Kabel fonts were used for the text, folios and tabs. Again, I chose not to use the film logo. Below are selected pages from the book.


















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School Days: Pratt Institute and the Golden Age of Comics

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Scores of Pratt Institute’s “Illustration” and “Pictorial Illustration” students contributed to the comics industry during its Golden Age and beyond. Some of them worked at the Eisner and Iger Studio which, later, was renamed the Iger Studio. Photos and addresses are from the school annual, Prattonia, which was accessed at Ancestry.com. Names are linked to Who’s Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999 with additional links and information (from Ancestry.com and newspapers) for some.

1931 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 4, 1931

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Howard J Sherman
Age in 1910: 11 months
Birth Year: abt 1910
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1910: Brooklyn Ward 30, Kings, New York
Address: 8401 17th Avenue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Grandson
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas L Sherman
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Carrie Sherman
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Members:
Name / Age
Byram W Winters 59
Marietta Winters 55
Roy L Winters 20
Fred S Winters 16
Thomas L Sherman 30
Carrie Sherman 29
Howard J Sherman 11 months

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Howard J Sherman
Age: 10
Birth Year: abt 1910
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Brooklyn Assembly District 9, Kings, New York
Address: 515 76th Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas Sherman
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Carrie Sherman
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: 
Name / Age
Thomas Sherman 40
Carrie Sherman 39
Howard J Sherman 10
Frances Sherman 6
Byram Winters 67
Marietta Winters 64

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Howard J Sherman
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1910
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 630 75th Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Thomas L Sherman
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Carrie Sherman
Mother's Birthplace: New York Household Members:
Name / Age
Thomas L Sherman 49
Carrie Sherman 48
Howard J Sherman 20
Frances M Sherman 16

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Howard Sherman
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: New York, Kings, New York
Street: 72 Street
House Number: 346
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Commercial Art
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 40
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 40
Income: 1200
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Thomas L Sherman 60
Carry Sherman 60
Howard Sherman 30
Frances Sherman 26

Social Security Death Index
Name: Howard J. Sherman
State of Issue: New Jersey
Date of Birth: Thursday May 6, 1909
Date of Death: Monday December 27, 1993
Est. Age at Death: 84 years, 7 months, 21 days
Last known residence:
City: Howell; Wall Township
County: Monmouth
State: New Jersey

1931 STUDENTS
150 Senator St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
(History Detectives, see transcript page 5;
1915 New York State Census
Name: Harold L Anderson
Birth Year: abt 1911
Birth Place: United States
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Residence Place: New York, Queens
Address: 235 Walnut Place
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Number of Years in US: 4
Household Members:
Name / Age
David L Anderson 30
Alma P Anderson 26
Harold L Anderson 4
Wilbur H Anderson 2

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Harold Anderson
Age: 8
Birth Year: abt 1912
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Queens Assembly District 5, Queens, New York
Address: 8667 106th Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: David L Anderson
Father's Birthplace: Sweden
Mother's Name: Alma P Anderson
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Name / Age
David L Anderson 35
Alma P Anderson 31
Harold Anderson 8
Wilbur Anderson 6
Josephine Peterson 62

1925 New York State Census
Name: Harold Anderson
Birth Date: abt 1911
Birth Place: United States
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Brooklyn, Kings
Address: 150 Senator Street
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
David F Anderson 39
Harold Anderson 14
Wilber Anderson 12
Josephine Peterson 66

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Harold Anderson
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1911
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 150 Senator Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: David L Anderson
Father's Birthplace: Sweden
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Members:
Name / Age
David L Anderson 42
Harold Anderson 19
Wilbur Anderson 16
Josephina H Peterson 72

13 Devoe St., South River, N.J.
Who’s Who suggests the signature “Harry / Douglas” represented two artists. Perhaps the slash was actually the letter “V”; see Douglas in 1933 graduates list.

563 48th St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
According to Eadeh’s parents’ 1906 Ohio marriage certificate, his father was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and his mother in Damascus, Assyria. In the 1910 United States Federal Census, the family lived in Cleveland, Ohio. After World War I, they moved to Brooklyn, New York.

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Alfred Eadeh
Age: 7
Birth Year: abt 1913
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1920: Brooklyn Assembly District 7, Kings, New York
Address: 572 48th Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Richard Eadeh
Father's Birthplace: Syria
Mother's Name: Jamela Eadeh
Mother's Birthplace: Syria
Household Members:
Name / Age
Richard Eadeh 36
Jamela Eadeh 35
Edward Eadeh 12
Victor Eadeh 11
Alfred Eadeh 7
Adeba Makhoul 64

1925 New York State Census
Name: Alfred Eadeh
Birth Date: abt 1913
Birth Place: United States
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Brooklyn, Kings
Address: 563 48th Street
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
Richard Eadeh 41
Jamesla Eadeh 40
Eduard Eadeh 17
Victor Eadeh 16
Alfred Eadeh 12

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Alfred Eadeh
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1913
Birthplace: Ohio
Race: White
Home in 1930: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 563 48th Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Richard Eadeh
Father's Birthplace: Palestine
Mother's Name: Jamuleh Eadeh
Mother's Birthplace: Syria Household Members:
Name / Age
Richard Eadeh 45
Jamuleh Eadeh 42
Edward Eadeh 21
Victor Eadeh 20
Alfred Eadeh 17

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Alfred P Eadeh
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1913
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Ohio
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: New York, Kings, New York
Address: 570 44 Street
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Artist/Advertising Firm
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Duration of Unemployment: 24
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 24
Income: 1360
Household Members:
Name / Age
Jamela Eadeh 50
Victor R Eadeh 31
Alfred P Eadeh 27
World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Alfred R Eadeh
Birth Year: 1913
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Ohio
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Kings
Enlistment Date: 7 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: New York
Enlistment City: Jamaica
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Artists, sculptors, and teachers of art
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 67
Weight: 157

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Alfred R Eadeh
Birth Date: 7 Feb 1913
Phone Number: 238-4470
Address: 8409 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11209-4601 (1993)

Social Security Death Index
Name: Alfred R. Eadeh
Last Residence: 32548 Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa, Florida
Born: 7 Feb 1913
Died: 26 Dec 2005
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)

Frank Volp
4380 Junction Blvd., Elmhurst, N.Y.


1932 GRADUATES


Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 8, 1932


(Chicago Tribune, September 10, 1996;
1915 New York State Census
Name: Gordon A Sheehan
Birth Year: abt 1910
Birth Place: United States
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Schaghticoke, Rensselaer
Address: 30 Crystal Street
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Number of Years in US: 5
Household Members:
Name / Age
Michael F Sheehan 46
Mary F Sheehan 45
Gordon A Sheehan 5

1925 New York State Census
Name: Gorden A Sheehan
Birth Date: abt 1910
Birth Place: United States
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Stillwater, Saratoga
Address: River Road
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
Michael F Sheehan 57
Mary F Sheehan 57
Gordon A Sheehan 15

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Gordon Sheehan
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1911
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Stillwater, Saratoga, New York
Address: Stillwater and Mechanicville
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Adopted Son
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Household Members:
Name / Age
Michael Sheehan 61
Mary Sheehan 60
Gordon Sheehan 19

The Saratogian
(Saratoga Springs, New York)
July 17, 1935
Gordon Sheehan, Former Resident, Weds in Brooklyn
Stillwater—Word has been received here of the marriage of Gordon A. Sheehan, New York City, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Sheehan, Stillwater-Mechanicville road, to Miss Dorothy Piev, also of New York City, in the Church of the Assumption, Brooklyn, July 9. Mr. Sheehan is a graduate of Mechanicville High School and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where he majored in art. Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan will continue to reside in New York City.

September 2, 1938
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Sheehan have left for Miami, Fla., after vacationing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sheehan, southside. Mr. Sheehan will establish residence in Miami where he is employed by Fleischer’s Studio, producers of animated cartoons.

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Gordon A Sheehan
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1911
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Coral Gables, Dade, Florida
Street: San Marco
House Number: 1425
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 3
Father's Birthplace: Irish Free State
Mother's Birthplace: Irish Free State
Occupation: Cartoonist
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 40
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 3rd year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 40
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 3000
Income Other Sources: No
Native Language: English
Social Security Number: Yes
Usual Occupation: Cartoonist
Usual Industry: Commercial Art
Usual Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Household Members:
Name / Age
Gordon A Sheehan 29
Dorothy P Sheehan 29The Saratogian
August 22, 1941
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Sheehan and daughter, Meryl Jane, Miami, are visiting Mrs. Sheehan’s father, P.J. Holland, Green St. They will return to Florida tomorrow where Mr. Sheehan is associated with the Max Fleischer Studios.
November 7, 1949
Card of Thanks
I wish to thank the Rev. David La Vole, John Ryan, Mrs. Florence Kiley, Dr. Frank Mastrianni, bearers, and all who sent flowers, Mass cards, donated cars or assisted in any way during the illness and death of Michael Sheehan.
Gordon Holland Sheehan. (Adopted the surname of his father-in-law for his middle name)

Social Security Death Index
Name: Gordon H. Sheehan
State of Issue: New York
Date of Birth: Wednesday, May 11, 1910
Date of Death: Friday, September 6, 1996
Est. Age at Death: 86 years, 3 months, 26 days
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence: Evanston, Cook, Illinois


1933 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 8, 1933

Harry V. Douglas
The following text is from an eBay listing on June 2, 2013:

Unique. Original Handrawn Prints by Cartoon Artist Harry V Douglas 1911-1995

These are very 2 unique prints hand drawn by the cartoon author Harry Douglas. They were commissioned by a private owner and are in 36" x 24" glass frames. Superior condition.

Harry Douglas was an animator for Max Fleischer Studios, he worked on the original Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons and also on the animated feature, “Gulliver’s Travels.” His cartoons were published in The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and Judge, and he produced the comic books “The Blue Blazer and Stuperman,” a parody of Superman.

In 1941 he was drafted into the Army and became a career officer, specializing in intelligence work. During World War II, while serving under General Patton, he was awarded three Bronze Stars and Croix de Guerre with a Silver Stare. He also received the Legion of Merit for his outstanding intelligence work on theSoviet military in postwar Vienna. His top secret commendation read, “From no other Officer in the world did the War Department receive such factual reporting from Major Douglas.” He retired from the Army in 1964. He then resumed his work as a commercial artist, specializing in portraits.

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Harry V Douglas
Birth Year: 1911
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: New York
State of Residence: New Jersey
County or City: Middlesex
Enlistment Date: 24 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: New Jersey
Enlistment City: Trenton
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Artists, sculptors, and teachers of art
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 66
Weight: 178

Social Security Death Index
Name: Harry V. Douglas
SSN: 136-32-5093
Last Residence: 08882 South River, Middlesex, New Jersey
Born: 15 Mar 1911
Died: 24 May 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (1956-1958)




1934 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 8, 1934



1915 New York State Census
Name: Edward Winiarski
Birth Year: abt 1911
Birth Place: United States
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Niagara Falls Ward 03, Niagara
Address: 1228 East Falls
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
Julian Winiarski 36
Caroline Winiarski 35
Waclaw Winiarski 11
Leon Winiarski 8
Theofil Winiarski 6
Edward Winiarski 4
Eugeni Winiarski 1

1925 New York State Census
Name: Eddie Winiarski
Birth Date: abt 1911
Birth Place: United States
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Niagara Falls Ward 03, Niagara
Address: 1220 East Falls
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
Josephine Fritz 18
Dorothy Wizner 50
Walter Wizner 21
Casmir Wizner 12
Colerier Wizner 05
Theofil Winiarski 16
Eddie Winiarski 14
Jenny Winiarski 11
Cesia Winiarski 07
Trala Winiarski 59

1929 Niagara Falls City Directory
Name: Edward Winiarski
Street Address: 1220-Falls
Residence Place: Niagara Falls, New York
Occupation: Student
(Winiarski Caroline widow; Julian died March 2 1929; Winiarski Hardware Company)

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Edward Winiarski
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1912
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York
Address: 1220 East Falls Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Birthplace: Poland
Mother's Name: Caroline Winiarski
Mother's Birthplace: Poland Household Members:
Name / Age
Caroline Winiarski 52
Leo Winiarski 24
Theofil Winiarski 22
Edward Winiarski 18
Jennie Winiarski 15
Jessie Winiarski 11

Niagara Falls High School
Niagarian 1931 Yearbook
Art Editor on The Chronicle;
graduated two years ahead of Albert Micale.






1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Edward Winiaski
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1912
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 400 Washington Avenue
Inferred Residence in 1935: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 326
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Occupation: Fine Artist
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 25
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 48
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 2500
Income Other Sources: No
Native Language: English
Veteran: No
Social Security Number: Yes
Usual Occupation: Fine Artist
Usual Industry: Magazine Company
Usual Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Household Members:
Name / Age
Edward Winiarski 28

The Social Security Death Index has information on someone who was very close in age to Winiarski and I believe it is him.
Name: Edward Winiarski
SSN: 053-05-5491
Last Residence: 11428 Jamaica, Queens, New York
Born: 6 May 1911
Died: Dec 1975
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


1935 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 6, 1935





1936 GRADUATES

The New York Times, June 4, 1936

Edward D. Cartier
(aka Edd Cartier; Biography)

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Albert E Micale
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1914
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Niagara Falls Ward 5, Niagara, New York
Address: 417 Portage Road
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Albert Micale
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's Name: Consita Micale
Mother's Birthplace: Italy
Household Members:
Name / Age
Albert Micale 52
Consita Micale 48
Joseph Micale 21
Mary Micale 19
Anna Micale 18
Santa Micale 17
Peter Micale 14
Albert E Micale 6

1925 New York State Census
Name: Albert Micale
Birth Date: abt 1914
Birth Place: United States
Age: 11
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Niagara Falls Ward 05, Niagara
Address: 417 Portage Road
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Number of Years in US: 11
Household Members:
Name / Age
Albert Micale 58
Concetta Micale 45
Joseph Micale 26
Mary Micale 23
Peter Micale 20
Albert Micale 11

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Albert Micale
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1914
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Race: White
Home in 1930: Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York
Address: 423 Thirteenth Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Albert Micale
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's Name: Concetta Micale
Mother's Birthplace: Italy
Household Members:
Name / Age
Albert Micale 62
Concetta Micale 58
Mary Micale 30
Peter Micale 25
Albert Micale 16

The Niagara Falls Gazette
June 26, 1933
Niagara Falls High School Graduation
Micale graduated two years after Edward Winiarski.

Social Security Death Index
Name: Albert Micale
SSN: 083-28-0629
Last Residence: 85253 Paradise Valley, Maricopa, Arizona
Born: 8 Dec 1913
Died: 6 Jun 1993
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (1952-1953)


1936–37 OFFICERS


Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 1, 1936

First-year illustration (B division)
Daniel Zolnerowich, president

Second-year pictorial illustration
Alfred Gabriele, vicepresident


1937 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 10, 1937

The Addison County Independent (Vermont), November 7, 2004

CORNWALL — Lachlan MacLachlan Field, 91, died at his home in Cornwall, in the care of his children and Addison County Hospice, on Oct. 31, 2004.

Born in Islip, Long Island, N.Y., on Aug. 8, 1913, he was the only son of Ruth Caldwell MacLachlan and Wallace P. Field. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1937 and later earned teaching certification at the University of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1961.

He worked for the Dennison Paper Company designing paper and cards until he entered the United States Army before World War II. He met his wife, Martha J. Wright, while he was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen in Winooski. He served in the Army for 20 years, both in Europe and the Far East, and retired in 1961 as a lieutenant colonel.

He moved with his family back to Vermont, where he taught grades 7 and 8 at Bridport School, then taught at Middlebury Union High School for 13 years, where he established the arts and crafts program.

He was an artist, and spent his life sketching and painting, leaving notebooks filled with sketches of the soldiers he served with during the war, draft horses he watched at Field Days, and Friendship sloops off the coast of Maine. While in the service, he illustrated for Army Times magazine and displayed his watercolors in many art shows throughout his life.

While a faculty member, he supported many sports teams and drama presentations with posters, sketches, drama sets and yearbook photographs. He created murals based on literary characters for both the Cornwall and Weybridge elementary schools.

He was a charter member of the Middlebury Artists Association, and encouraged many to try their hand at painting.

Other interests included military history, his Scottish heritage, birding locally, and in the 1970s creating cross-country ski trails around town, where he logged many kilometers after his retirement.

He was a member of the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department.

He leaves a son, Doug, of Cornwall, and a daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Greg Lyons, of Weybridge; three grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his wife, Martha, in 1987, and by his half-brother and half-sister, Jim and Joanne.

Memorial contributions maybe made to Elderly Services/Project Independence, P.O. Box 581, Middlebury, VT 05753 or Addison County Home Health and Hospice, Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753, or to the American Cancer Society.

149-33 Hawthorne Ave., Flushing, N.Y.
Women’s Club ’36; Paletteer ’37; Gym Meet; Swimming Club.
In came Miss Fezzywig; one vast substantial smile.

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Jean Hotchkiss
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Queens Assembly District 3, Queens, New York
Address: 42 State Street
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Guest
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Household Members:
Name / Age
George B Hotchkiss 36
Margaret Hotchkiss 34
George B Hotchkiss 8
Barbara Hotchkiss 7
Jean Hotchkiss 3

1925 New York State Census
Name: Jean Hotchkiss
Birth Date: abt 1917
Birth Place: United States
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Residence Place: New York, Queens
Address: 149-17 Hawthorne Avenue
Relationship: Daughter
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
George B Hotchkiss 41
Mary Hotchkiss 39
Geo B Hotchkiss 14
Barbera Hotchkiss 12
Jean Hotchkiss 8
Mary Hotchkiss 4
Richards Hotchkiss 3
Mary Hotchkiss 3
Mary Mohaned 27

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Jean Hotchkiss
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Queens, Queens, New York
Address: 149-33 Hawthorne Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: George B Hotchkiss
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Name: Margaret W Hotchkiss
Mother's Birthplace: Illinois
Household Members:
Name / Age
George B Hotchkiss 46
Margaret W Hotchkiss 44
George B Hotchkiss 19
Barbara Hotchkiss 17
Jean Hotchkiss 13
Margaret Hotchkiss 10
Richard W Hotchkiss 8
Mary Hotchkiss 8
Isabelle Graham 57

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Jean Hotchkiss
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1917
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: New York, Queens, New York
Street: Hawthorne Avenue
House Number: 149-33
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Queens, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Occupation: Designer
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 45
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 50
Income: 900
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
George Hotchkiss 55
Margaret Hotchkiss 53
Jean Hotchkiss 23
Richard Hotchkiss 18
Mary Hotchkiss 18
Isabell Graham 67

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Jean Hotchkiss
Arrival Date: 5 Aug 1929
Birth Date: 30 Aug 1916
Birth Location: New York
Birth Location Other: Flushing
Age: 12 Years 11 Months
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: London, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Address:  149-33 Hawthorne Avenue
Ship Name: American Trader

Social Security Death Index
Name: Jean C. Champagne
SSN: 051-40-8090
Last Residence: 11226  Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Born: 30 Aug 1917
Died: Jan 1988
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (1963-1964)
(Ancestry.com linked Jean Hotchkiss to Jean C. Champagne)


(Samples of comic book art)
318 Rochester Ave., New York, N.Y.
Artsmen Bowling ’36; Artsmen Boxing.
The fellow mixes blood with his colors.

9808 Flatlands Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Artsmen Rep. ’37; Prattonia Rep. ’37.
By his quiet yet telling wit you’ll know him.
1920 United States Census
Name: Arthur F Peddy
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Brooklyn Assembly District 16, Kings, New York
Address: 284? West 17th Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Samuel C Peddy
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Eva Peddy
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Samuel C Peddy 37
Eva Peddy 32
Arthur T Peddy 3
Mortimer S Peddy 7 months

1925 New York State Census
Name: Arthur F Peddy
Birth Date: abt 1917
Birth Place: United States
Age: 8
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Brooklyn, Kings
Address: 9808 Flatlands Avenue
Relationship: Son 
Color or Race: White 
Household Members: 
Name / Age
Samuel Peddy 42
Eva Peddy 37
Arthur F Peddy 8
Mortimer S Peddy 6
Jay J Peddy 2
Jacob Ader 19

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Arthur Peddy
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 9808 Flatlands Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Samuel Peddy
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Eva Peddy
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Samuel Peddy 44
Eva Peddy 42
Arthur Peddy 13
Mortimer Peddy 11
Jay Peddy 08
Annette Peddy 03

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Arthur Peddy
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1917
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: New 
ork, Kings, New York
Street: Flatlands Avenue
House Number: 9808
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Occupation: Drawing/Freelance
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Class of Worker: Working on own account
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: Yes
Household Members:
Name / Age
Samuel Peddy 52
Arthur Peddy 23
Mortimer Peddy 19
Jay Peddy 17
Annette Peddy 12

New York, Passenger List
Name: Arthur Peddy
Arrival Date: 26 Nov 1950
Birth Date: abt 1917
Birth Location: New York
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Address: 4717 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
Port of Departure: New York, New York
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Europa
Companion: Lillian Peddy

Connecticut, Marriage Index
Name: Arthur F Peddy
Birth Year: abt 1917
Residence: Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
Age: 70
Race: White
Spouse: Joanne Posner
Spouse Residence: Norwalk, FairField, Connecticut
Spouse Age: 63
Spouse Race: White
Marriage Date: 5 Apr 1987
Place of Marriage: Norwalk, Fairfield

Social Security Death Index
Name: Arthur F. Peddy
SSN: 158-07-5788
Last Residence: 06854 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
Born: 26 Dec 1916
Died: 15 May 2002
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)

116 South Ave., Mount Vernon, N.Y.
Mt. Vernon Scholarship to Pratt.
Pete is a sort of pest, He never lets the model rest.
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Peter Riss
Age: 5
Birth Year: abt 1915
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1920: New Britain Ward 5, Hartford, Connecticut
Address: 29 Cemetery Lane
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Gerasim Riss
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Elzan Riss
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Gerasim Riss 32
Elzan Riss 27
Peter Riss 5
John Riss 3
Nick Riss 1

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Peter Riss
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1915
Birthplace: Connecticut
Race: White
Home in 1930: New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut
Address: 185 Wooster Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: George Riss
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Nellie Riss
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
George Riss 42
Nellie Riss 35
Peter Riss 15
John Riss 13
Nicholas Riss 11
Jennie Riss 10
Paul Riss 8
Walter Riss 5

The Daily Argus
(Mount Vernon, New York)
March 29, 1934
“Dots . . Dashes - - About Davis” [High School]
Another outstanding art student is Peter Riss, art editor for this year’s annual.
Peter has done a great job in getting the finished work in quickly.

January 31, 1935
“High School Class Feted”
A.B. Davis High School
Commercial Graduates
...Peter Riss was the only art student in the class…

June 27, 1935
“Prizes Given Outstanding Students in 25 Subjects”
Davis P.T.A. prize for excellence in art—Peter Riss and William Birney (tie).

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Peter Reiss [sic]
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1915
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Connecticut
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
Home in 1940: Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York
Street: East Third Street
House Number: 150
Inferred Residence in 1935: Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Artist
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 1560
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
John Kozlow 45
Mary Kozlow 49
Mary Kozlow 14
Peter Reiss [sic] 25

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Name: Peter Riss
Residence Year: 1939
Street Address: Franklin av
Residence Place: Bristol, Connecticut
Occupation: Artist
Publication Title: Bristol, Connecticut, City Directory, 1939

Fawcett Companion: The Best of FCA
Paul Hamerlinck, Editor
TwoMorrows, 2001
Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 25, 1945

Pratt Institute Alumni
1987 Commencement
This document listed Edwin M. Eisenberg,
a 1937 Advertising Design (AD) student,

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Edwin M Eisenberg
Age: 3 [3 0/12] 
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Queens Assembly District 3, Queens, New York
Address: 372 13th Avenue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Ida Eisenberg
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Ida Eisenberg 27 [Florist]
Edwin M Eisenberg 3
Bernice G Eisenberg 3

1925 New York State Census
Name: Edwin Eisenberg
Birth Date: abt 1917
Birth Place: United States
Age: 08
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Brooklyn, Kings
Address: 373 Miller Avenue
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Household Members:
Name / Age
Philip Marcus 47
Bertha Marcus 37
Harriet Marcus 15
Pauline Marcus 14
Milton Marcus 11
Elinore G Marcus 2
Ida Eisenberg 32
Edmin Eisenberg 8
Beatrice Eisenberg 8

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Edwin M Eisenberg
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1917
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Address: 399 Montauk Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Stepson
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Ida Yablonsky
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Louis Yablonsky 40
Ida Yablonsky 37 [Remarried]
Ruth Yablonsky 15
Sylvia Yablonsky 12
Gloria Yablonsky 3
Edwin M Eisenberg 13
Beatrice G Eisenberg 13

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Edwin M Eisenberg
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1917
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Stepson
Home in 1940: New York, Kings, New York
Street: Shepherd
House Number: 785
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Artist
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 2nd year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 40
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 20
Income: 440
Household Members:
Name / Age
Louis Yablonsky 50
Ida Yablonsky 47
Ruth Yablonsky 25
Sylvia Yablonsky 22
Gloria Yablonsky 13
Edwin M Eisenberg 23
Beatrice G Eisenberg 23

Department of Veterans Affairs Death File
Name: Edwin Eisenberg
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1916
Death Date: 11 Feb 1998
SSN: 056019910
Branch 1: Army
Enlistment Date 1: 14 Aug 1942
Release Date 1: 12 Nov 1945

Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
Name: Edwin M Eisenberg
Death Date: 11 Feb 1998
County of Death: Palm Beach
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 81
Race: White
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1916

Social Security Death Index
Name: Edwin M. Eisenberg
SSN: 056-01-9910
Last Residence: 33433  Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Florida
Born: 15 Dec 1916
Died: 11 Feb 1998
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


1937 STUDENTS

John E. Ayman
88 W. 17th St., Woodhaven, N.Y.

3 Kimberly Ave., Springfield, Mass.

235 86th St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

18 Johnson St., Waterbury, Conn.
(The New York Times, August 13, 2000, obituary)

48 Warwick, Newark, N.J.

20 Summer St., New Port, R.I.

3404 Giles Pl., Bronx, N.Y.

43 Levin St., Newport, R.I.
(Find a Grave)

21 20th St., West New York, N.J.

452 Ridgewood Ave, Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Biography)

81 Scherick Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, August 28, 2002, obituary)


Robert S. Powell
158 N. Parade Ave., Buffalo, N.Y.
(Born Stanley Robert Pawlowski; Teen a Go Go)


427 42nd St., Brooklyn N.Y.

694 Cortlandt Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.

333 Central Park West, New York, N.Y.

633 Colorado Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
(Biography)

52 Prentice Ave., South River, N.J.
1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Daniel Zolnerowich
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1916
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New Jersey
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: New York, New York, New York
Street: East 6th Street
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, New York, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Artist
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 17
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 44
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 8
Income: 84
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Daniel Zolnerowich 24
Juliana Zolnerowich 20

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Daniel Zolnerowich
Phone Number: 257-2944
Address: 55 Sunset St, South River, NJ, 08882-2466 (1993)
[8 20th 82, South River, NJ, 08882 (1974)]

Social Security Death Index
Name: Daniel Zolnerowich
SSN: 063-16-9142
Last Residence: 08882 South River, Middlesex, New Jersey
Born: 5 May 1915
Died: 26 Aug 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)

514 W. Olive St., Long Beach, N.Y.

61 Croton Terrace, Yonkers, N.Y.


1938 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Eagle, June 9, 1938

Alfred J. Gabriele
(Biography)

Peter Riss


Nicholas Zuraw
1915 New York State Census
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
Birth Year: abt 1914
Birth Place: United States
Age: 6 months
Gender: Male
Residence Place: Yonkers Ward 05, Westchester
Address: 18 Croton Terrace
Relationship: Son
Color or Race: White
Number of Years in US: 210 Days
Household Members:
Name / Age
Andrew Zuraw 38
Annie Zuraw 33
Saniel Zuraw 14
John Zuraw 10
Wladimir Zuraw 9
Mishall Zuraw 7
Peter Zuraw 3
Nicholas Zuraw 6 months

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1914
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Yonkers Ward 5, Westchester, New York
Address: 18 Croton Terrace
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Andrew Zuraw
Father's Birthplace: Russia
Mother's Name: Anna Zuraw
Mother's Birthplace: Russia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Andrew Zuraw 44
Anna Zuraw 38
Daniel Zuraw 19
John Zuraw 15
Ladimer Zuraw 14
Michael Zuraw 12
Peter Zuraw 8
Nicholas Zuraw 6

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1914
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Yonkers, Westchester, New York
Address: 61 Croton Terrace
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Andrew Zuraw
Father's Birthplace: Czechoslovakia
Mother's Name: Anna Zuraw
Mother's Birthplace: Czechoslovakia
Household Members:
Name / Age
Andrew Zuraw 55
Anna Zuraw 49
Daniel Zuraw 28
John Zuraw 25
Michael Zuraw 22
Peter Zuraw 18
Nicholas Zuraw 16
Mary Zuraw 10
May Zuraw 27

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1915
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Yonkers, Westchester, New York
Street: Croton Terrace
House Number: 61
Inferred Residence in 1935: Yonkers, Westchester, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Occupation: Artist/Cartoon Company
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 7th grade
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Andrew Zuraw 64
Anna Zuraw 58
Peter Zuraw 27
Nicholas Zuraw 25
Mary Zuraw 20
Daniel Zuraw 38
Mary R Zuraw 36
Edwin D Zuraw 6
Andrew Kirnics 26
Top-Notch Comics, No. 16, June 1941

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
Birth Year: 1914
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: New York
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Westchester
Enlistment Date: 27 Jan 1941
Enlistment State: New York
Enlistment City: New York City
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Commercial artists
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 184

Social Security Death Index
Name: Nicholas Zuraw
SSN: 116-03-3964
Last Residence: 10701  Yonkers, Westchester, New York
Born: 3 Nov 1914
Died: 27 Feb 1998
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


1939 GRADUATES


Brooklyn Eagle, January 22, 1939

John Edward Ayman
Lillian Chestney

Charles Nicholas Cuidera
(Biography)

Philip James Dring
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Philip James Dring
Age: 1 [1 7/12] 
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Home in 1920: Newport Ward 4, Newport, Rhode Island
Address: 25 Fair Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Grandson
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Philip Dring
Father's Birthplace: Rhode Island
Mother's Name: Mary C Dring
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Household Members:
Name / Age
James Toomey 61
Pauline Toomey 20
Alice Toomey 13
Dorthy Toomey 12
Philip Dring 32
Mary C Dring 26
Philip James Dring 1

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Phillip J Dring
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Race: White
Home in 1930: Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
Address: 25 Thurston Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Phillip Dring
Father's Birthplace: Rhode Island
Mother's Name: Mary C Dring
Mother's Birthplace: Rhode Island
Household Members:
Name / Age
Phillip Dring 42
Mary C Dring 36
Phillip J Dring 11
Kathleen Dring 10
James Dring 8 months

1935 Rhode Island State Census
Name: P J Dring
Birth Date: 9 Jan 1918
Birth Place: Rhode Island
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Marital Status: Single
If at School: Pratt, Brooklyn
Grade: 13
Township: Newport
County: Newport
Household Members:
Name / Age
PJ Dring 17

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Philip Dring
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1919
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Nephew
Home in 1940: New York, Queens, New York
Street: Little Neck Pkwy
House Number: 4311
Inferred Residence in 1935: Newport, Rhode Island
Residence in 1935: Newport, Rhode Island
Occupation: New Worker
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 1st year
Duration of Unemployment: 4 Weeks
Weeks Worked in 1939: 20
Income: 600
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Rolert Lofblad 36
Aliel Lofblad 34
Robert Lofblad 3
Anne Lofblad 1
Philip Dring 21

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Philip J Dring
Birth Year: 1918
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Rhode Island
State of Residence: New Jersey
Enlistment Date: 14 Oct 1941
Enlistment State: New Jersey
Enlistment City: Fort Dix
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Authors, editors, and reporters
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 69
Weight: 154

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Name: Phillip J Dring
Residence Year: 1948
Street Address: 20 Summer
Residence Place: Newport, Rhode Island
Occupation: Advertising Manager
Publication Title: Newport, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1948

Name: Philip J Dring
Residence Year: 1957
Street Address: 20 Summer
Residence Place: Newport, Rhode Island
Occupation: Manager
Publication Title: Newport, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1957

Department of Veterans Affairs Death File
Name: Philip Dring
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 9 Jun 1918
Death Date: 19 Dec 1981
SSN: 035120048
Branch 1: Army
Enlistment Date 1: 14 Oct 1941
Release Date 1: 21 Sep 1945

Social Security Death Index
Name: Philip Dring
SSN: 035-12-0048
Last Residence: 02893  West Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
Born: 9 Jun 1918
Died: Dec 1981
State (Year) SSN issued: Rhode Island (Before 1951)

Robert Hayward Webb
(Classics Illustrated)
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Robert H Webb
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1915
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut
Address: 694 Courtland Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Thomas M Webb
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Name: Sarah M Webb
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Household Members:
Name / Age
Thomas M Webb 46
Sarah M Webb 56
Robert H Webb 15

Social Security Death Index
Name: Robert H. Webb
SSN: 066-16-5549
Last Residence: 20743  Capitol Heights, Prince Georges, Maryland
Born: 12 Apr 1915
Died: 11 Sep 2000
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)

Brooklyn Eagle, June 8, 1939


William T. Bossert
(On popular demand...; Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun)
Brooklyn Eagle, September 26, 1945

Lillian Chestney
Charles N. Cuidera
Philip J. Dring

Charles Mazoujian
(Life, February 9, 1942;
December 3, 1951 and here)
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Charles Mazoujian
Age: 2 [2 6/12] 
Birth Year: abt 1918
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1920: West Hoboken Ward 2, Hudson, New Jersey
Address: 915 Highpoint Avenue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Mazoujian
Father's Birthplace: Armenia
Mother's Name: Rosa Mazoujian
Mother's Birthplace: Armenia
Household Members:
Name / Age
John Mazoujian 40
Rosa Mazoujian 36
Aran Mazoujian 9
Charles Mazoujian 2
John Mazoujian 1

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Charles Mazoujian
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1918
Birthplace: New Jersey
Race: White
Home in 1930: West New York, Hudson, New Jersey
Address: 21 20th Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: John Mazoujian
Father's Birthplace: Turkey
Mother's Name: Rose Mazoujian
Mother's Birthplace: Turkey
Household Members:
Name / Age
John Mazoujian 49
Rose Mazoujian 43
Aram Mazoujian 19
Charles Mazoujian 12

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Charles Mazoujian
Age: 22
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1918
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: New Jersey
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: West New York, Hudson, New Jersey
Street: 20th Street
House Number: 21
Inferred Residence in 1935: West New York, Hudson, New Jersey
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Occupation: Artist
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 40
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
John Mazoujian 59
Rose Mazoujian 50
Aram Mazoujian 28
Charles Mazoujian 22

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Charles J Mazoujian
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: New Jersey
State of Residence: New Jersey
County or City: Hudson
Enlistment Date: 31 Jan 1941
Enlistment State: New Jersey
Enlistment City: Newark
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Architects
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 163

U.S., Social Security Death Index
Name: Charles John Mazoujian
Last Residence: 95831  Sacramento, Sacramento, California
Born: 24 Aug 1917
Died: 14 Jan 2011
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)

Robert H. Webb

Stanley M. Zuckerberg
(AskArt)


1939 STUDENTS

25 Cortlandt St., Mount Vernon, N.Y.


Robert Boyajian
265 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y.
(Obituary)

Robert Butts, Jr.
704 North Wilbur Ave., Sayre, Pa.
(Find a Grave)


117 Greenkill Road, Kingston, N.Y.

John T. Donaldson, Jr.
40 Fourth St., Pelham, N.Y.

Robert Donovan
606 10 St., Niagara Falls, N.Y.
A family tree at Ancestry.com said his full name was Robert Ralph Donovan.

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Robert R Donovan
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1919 
Birthplace: Ohio 
Race: White 
Home in 1930: Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York 
Address: 606 Tenth Street 
Marital Status: Single 
Relation to Head of House: Nephew 
Father's Birthplace: Virginia 
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania 
Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Laura B Mead 50 
Mildred H Mead 43 
Marie H Donovan 43 
Frederick J Donovan 13 
Robert R Donovan 11

Niagara Falls High School
Niagarian 1935 Yearbook
Donovan was a junior and yearbook cartoonist.








U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Robert R Donovan
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1918
Address: 200 N 1st St, Lewiston, NY, 14092-1210 (1993)

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Robert R Donovan
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1918
Address: 920 Mohawk St Apt 210, Lewiston, NY, 14092-1478

Social Security Death Index
Name: Robert R. Donovan
SSN: 128-12-9315
Last Residence: 14092  Lewiston, Niagara, New York
Born: 17 Sep 1918
Died: 12 Jan 2002
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


1627 72 St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

10616 Rockaway Blvd., Ozone Park, N.Y.

John R. Fischetti
1772 Madison Road, Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Who’s Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners)

Raymond Harford
249 Merrison St., Teaneck, N.J.

113 Halleck St., Youngstown, Ohio

Edward Lipowski
41 Conrad St., Buffalo, N.Y.


1 Mountainside Terrace, Clifton, N.J.

10711 86th St., Ozone Park, N.Y.

97 Boulanger Ave., West Hartford, Conn.

Samuel Schwartz
649 Empire Blvd., Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Biography)


Rockledge Gardens, Ward St., Norwalk, Conn.


1940 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Eagle, June 11, 1940

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Lloyd G Balderston
Age: 11 months
Birth Year: abt 1920
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Home in 1920: Springfield Ward 7, Hampden, Massachusetts
Address: 466 White Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Egerton B Balderston
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Name: Myra D Balderston
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Household Members:
Name / Age
Egerton B Balderston 44
Myra D Balderston 30
Lloyd G Balderston 11 months

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Lloyd G Balderston
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Race: White
Home in 1930: Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Address: 3 Kimberley Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: George E Balderston
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Name: Myra D Balderston
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Household Members:
Name / Age
George E Balderston 55
Myra D Balderston 42
Lloyd G Balderston 11
Jean H Balderston 8
Frederick H Balderston 5

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Name: Lloyd G Balderston
Residence Year: 1940
Street Address: 3 Kimberly av
Residence Place: Springfield, Massachusetts
Occupation: Student
Publication Title: Springfield, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1940

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Lloyd G Balderston
Birth Year: 1918
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Massachusetts
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Kings
Enlistment Date: 10 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: New York
Enlistment City: Jamaica
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Draftsmen
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 76
Weight: 168

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Name: Lloyd G Balderston
Residence Year: 1945
Street Address: 3 Kimberly av
Residence Place: Springfield, Massachusetts
Occupation: in US Army
Publication Title: Springfield, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1945

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: L G Balderston
Birth Date: 5 Nov 1918
Address: 27 Nelson St, West Springfield, MA, 01089-3040 (1990)

Social Security Death Index
Name: Lloyd Balderston
SSN: 027-01-9193
Last Residence: 01089  West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Born: 5 Nov 1918
Died: 6 Apr 1991
State (Year) SSN issued: Massachusetts (Before 1951)

Albert S. Bryant
Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985
Name: Albert Samuel Bryant
Birth Date: 20 Jul 1917
Event Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 9 Jun 1918
Baptism Place: Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Father Name: Edwin W Bryant
Mother Name: Mary L Bryant
Organization Name: Westminster Presbyterian Church

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Albert S Bryant
Age: 2
Birth Year: abt 1918
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1920: Scranton Ward 10, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Address: 615 Wheeler Avenue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Edwin W Bryant
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Name: Mary L Bryant
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Household Members:
Name / Age
Edwin W Bryant 43
Mary L Bryant 39
Mary E Bryant 6
Albert S Bryant 2

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Albert S Bryant
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1918
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Race: White
Home in 1930: Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Address: 1209 Linden Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Edwin W Bryant
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Name: Mary L Bryant
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Household Members:
Name / Age
Edwin W Bryant 54
Mary L Bryant 49
Mary Bryant 16
Albert S Bryant 12
Walter E Bryant0 7
Arthur Vail 45
Earnest Clemens 25

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Albert S Bryant
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1917
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Street: Taylor
House Number: 730
Inferred Residence in 1935: Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Residence in 1935: Same House
Occupation: Library Assistant
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 25
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: College, 3rd year
Duration of Unemployment: 140
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 7
Income: 300
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Harold A Serago 49
John Rudy 25
Jean Selvy 22
Lydia Evans 26
Albert S Bryant 23
Walter E Bryant 17
John H Sherlock 26
Ruth Jane Smulowitz 6
Bess Gregory 27

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Name: Albert S Bryant
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1946
Street Address: 201 XV Pine D
Residence Place: Scranton, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Artist
Spouse: Kathleen Bryant 
Publication Title: Scranton, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1946

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Albert S Bryant
Birth Date: 20 Jul 1917
Phone Number: 436-1231
Address: 9 Raintree, Leesburg, GA, 31763 (1986)
[1580 US 9, Leesburg, GA, 31763 (1994)] 

Social Security Death Index
Name: Albert S. Bryant
SSN: 196-01-3507
Last Residence: 31763  Leesburg, Lee, Georgia, United States of America
Born: 20 Jul 1917
Died: 27 Sep 1993
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)

Frank X. Doyle
(Lakeland Ledger and Orlando Sentinel, April 6, 1996, obituaries)

Donald T. MacLaughlin
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Donald T MacLaughlin
Age: 5/12
Birth Year: abt 1920
[abt 1919] 
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1920: Orange, New Haven, Connecticut
Address: 622 Washington Avenue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: William E MacLaughlin
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Margaret M MacLaughlin
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Household Members:
Name / Age
William E MacLaughlin 42
Margaret M MacLaughlin 27
William E MacLaughlin 6
Charles E MacLaughlin 4
Donald L MacLaughlin 5 months
Michael Left 52
Teresa Left 51
Leon W Left 24

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Donald T MacLaughlin
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1921
Birthplace: Connecticut
Race: White
Home in 1930: West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Address: 622 Washington Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: William C MacLaughlin
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Margaret MacLaughlin
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Household Members:
Name / Age
William C MacLaughlin 47
Margaret MacLaughlin 36
William MacLaughlin 16
Charles E MacLaughlin 14
Donald T MacLaughlin 9

West Haven High School
The Big Broadcast of 1937 Yearbook
MacLaughlin was a senior and tennis player.

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Donald MacLaughlin
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1919
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Connecticut
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Street: Washington
House Number: 537
Inferred Residence in 1935: West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: College, 2nd year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
William C MacLaughlin 64
Marguerita MacLaughlin 49
Charles E MacLaughlin 25
Donald MacLaughlin 21
Michael Taft 79
Teresa Taft 76

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Donald T MacLaughlin
Birth Year: 1919
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Connecticut
State of Residence: Connecticut
County or City: New Haven
Enlistment Date: 6 Jan 1942
Enlistment State: Connecticut
Enlistment City: Hartford
Branch: Air Corps
Branch Code: Air Corps
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
Source:Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Apprentices to printing trades
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 72
Weight: 142

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Donald T MacLaughlin
Birth Date: 8 Jul 1919
Address: 1945 Forest Hills Rd, Prescott, AZ, 86303-5508
[217 Creekside Cir, Prescott, AZ, 86303-5567] 
[PO Box 10998, Prescott, AZ, 86304-0998 (1993)] 

Social Security Death Index
Name: Donald T. MacLaughlin
SSN: 711-10-4479
Last Residence: 01460  Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Born: 8 Jul 1919
Died: 10 Nov 2000
State (Year) SSN issued: Railroad Board (Issued Through) (Before 1951)

Roderick Parkinson

Julius Svendsen
(Disney History; see April 29)


1940 STUDENTS


The New York Sun
June 6, 1940


1941 GRADUATES

Brooklyn Eagle, June 10, 1941

Kenneth Bald
(Dark Shadows)

Vincent Costello
1920 United States Census
Name: Vincent Costello
Age: 2 months
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Kingston, Ulster, New York
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas Costello
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's Name: Anna Costello 
Mother's Birthplace: Italy 
Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Thomas Costello 32 
Anna Costello 28 
Mary Costello 1 
Vincent Costello 2 months 

1930 United States Federal Census 
Name: Vincent T Costello 
Gender: Male 
Birth Year: abt 1920 
Birthplace: New York 
Race: White 
Home in 1930: Kingston, Ulster, New York 
Address: 117 Greenkill Avenue 
Marital Status: Single 
Relation to Head of House: Son 
Father's Name: Thomas Costello 
Father's Birthplace: Italy 
Mother's Name: Anna Costello 
Mother's Birthplace: Italy Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Thomas Costello 40 
Anna Costello 35 
Mary A Costello 11 
Vincent T Costello 10 
Elizabeth M Brophy 61 

1940 United States Federal Census 
Name: Vincent Costello 
Temporarily Absent: Yes 
Age: 20 
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1920 
Gender: Male 
Race: White 
Birthplace: New York 
Marital Status: Single 
Relation to Head of House: Son 
Home in 1940: Kingston, Ulster, New York 
Street: Greenkill Avenue 
House Number: 117 
Inferred Residence in 1935: Kingston, Ulster, New York 
Residence in 1935: Same House Attended School or College: Yes 
Highest Grade Completed: College, 2nd year 
Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Thomas Costello 51 
Bernadetta Costello 34 
Mary Costello 21 
Vincent Costello 20 
Kathleen R Costello 9 months 

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Vincent T Costello 
Birth Year: 1919 
Race: White, citizen (White) 
Nativity State or Country: New York 
State of Residence: New York 
County or City: Ulster 
Enlistment Date: 4 Mar 1942 
Enlistment State: New York 
Enlistment City: New York City 
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA 
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA 
Grade: Private 
Grade Code: Private 
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law 
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of 
Source: Civil Life 
Education: 4 years of college 
Civil Occupation: Commercial artists 
Marital Status: Single, without dependents 
Height: 68 
Weight: 163 

Social Security Death Index 
Name: Vincent T. Costello 
SSN: 070-12-9248 
Last Residence: 34994 Stuart, Martin, Florida 
Born: 30 Oct 1919 
Died: 5 Nov 1996 
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


Victor Dowd
(Art in the Face of War,
Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy,
The Ghost Army)

Alfred Duca

Raymond Harford
(Secret Soldiers)
1930 United States Census
Name: Raymond Harford
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1921
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Cliffside Park, Bergen, New Jersey
Address: 237 Franklin Avenue
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Raymond Harford
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Viola Harford
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Members: 
Name / Age
Raymond Harford 40
Viola Harford 32
Raymond Harford 9
Robert Harford 1

1940 United States Federal Census 
Name: Raymond D Harford Junior 
Age: 19 
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1921 
Gender: Male 
Race: White 
Birthplace: New Jersey 
Marital Status: Single 
Relation to Head of House: Son 
Home in 1940: Teaneck, Bergen, New Jersey 
Street: Carlton Terrace 
House Number : 249 
Inferred Residence in 1935: Teaneck, Bergen, New Jersey 
Residence in 1935: Same House Attended School or College: Yes 
Highest Grade Completed: College, 1st year 
Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Raymond D Harford 50 
Viola C Harford 43 
Raymond D Harford 19 
Robert J Harford 11 
Mary Kind 82 

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Raymond D Harford Jr 
Birth Year: 1920 
Race: White, citizen (White) 
Nativity State or Country: New Jersey 
State of Residence: New Jersey 
County or City: Bergen 
Enlistment Date: 9 Oct 1942 
Enlistment State: New Jersey 
Enlistment City: Newark 
Branch: Corps of Engineers 
Branch Code: Corps of Engineers 
Grade: Private 
Grade Code: Private 
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law 
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of 
Source: Civil Life 
Education: 3 years of college 
Civil Occupation: Commercial artists 
Marital Status: Married 
Height: 70 
Weight: 141 

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 
Name: Raymond D Harford Jr 
Birth Date: 21 Jul 1920 
Address: 95 Hotchkiss Cir, Penfield, NY, 14526-1401 (1986) 
[80 Ellingwood Dr, Rochester, NY, 14618-3604 (1992)] 

Social Security Death Index 
Name: Raymond D. Harford 
SSN: 154-14-6298 
Last Residence: 14618 Rochester, Monroe, New York 
Born: 21 Jul 1920 
Died: 22 May 2000 
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)

David Heames
(Classics Illustrated)
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: David Heames
Age: 1
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1920: Niles Ward 1, Trumbull, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Frank E Heames
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Name: May Heames
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members:
Name / Age
Frank E Heames 33
May Heames 27
Curtis Heames 7
Frank Heames 3
David Heames 1
Kate Williams 56

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: David Heames
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1919
Birthplace: Ohio
Race: White
Home in 1930: Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio
Address: 113 Halleck Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Frank Heames
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Name: May Heames
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members:
Name / Age
Frank Heames 43
May Heames 38
Curtis Heames 18
Frank Heames 13
David Heames 11
Kate Williams 67

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: David Heames
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1918
Address: 13454 Maple Ave, Flushing, NY, 11355-4537

Social Security Death Index
Name: David Heames
SSN: 296-09-7398
Last Residence: 11355  Flushing, Queens, New York
Born: 3 Dec 1918
Died: Apr 1982
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (Before 1951)

James Potter

Richard Rylands
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Richard RylandsGender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1921
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Home in 1930: Queens, Queens, New York
Address: 107-11 86th Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Elmer Rylands
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Helen Rylands
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Members: 
Name / Age
Elmer Rylands 32
Helen Rylands 35
Richard Rylands 9
Dorothy Rylands 2

1940 United States Federal Census 
Name: Richard Rylands 
Respondent: Yes 
Age: 19 
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1921 
Gender: Male 
Race: White 
Birthplace: New York 
Marital Status: Single 
Relation to Head of House: Son 
Home in 1940: New York, Queens, New York 
Street: 86th Street 
House Number: 107-11 
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Queens, New York 
Residence in 1935: Same House Attended School or College: Yes 
Highest Grade Completed: College, 2nd year 
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0 
Income: 0 
Income Other Sources: No 
Household Members: 
Name / Age 
Elmer Rylands 41 
Helen Rylands 42 
Richard Rylands 19 
Dorothy Rylands 12 

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Richard E Rylands 
Birth Year: 1920 
Race: White, citizen (White) 
Nativity State or Country: New York 
State of Residence: New York 
Enlistment Date: 30 Dec 1941 
Enlistment State: New York 
Enlistment City: New York City 
Branch: Air Corps 
Branch Code: Air Corps 
Grade Code: Aviation Cadet 
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law 
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of 
Source: Civil Life 
Education: 3 years of college 
Civil Occupation: Clerks, general office 
Marital Status: Single, without dependents 
Height: 71 
Weight: 160
 Long Island Daily Press, August 7, 1943

 Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1943

 Brooklyn Eagle, August 8, 1943

 Brooklyn Eagle, August 9, 1943

 Long Island Daily Press, December 4, 1943

 Brooklyn Eagle, March 23, 1944

The Daily Record (Rochester, New York), November 15, 1956


U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Richard E Rylands
Birth Date: 26 May 1920
Address: PO Box 3081, Sedona, AZ, 86340-3081
Name: Richard E Rylands 
Birth Date: 26 May 1920 
Address: 17 Alstead Rd, Valley Stream, NY, 11580-1123 

Social Security Death Index 
Name: Richard E. Rylands 
SSN: 119-01-7513 
Born: 26 May 1920 
Died: 19 Nov 1990 
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)


Kurt Schaffenberger
(Tribute)

John Westlake
1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
Name: John Trevanion Westlake
Mother: Ethel Ann Westlake
Father: Edward Trevarion Westlake
Birth: 1915
Residence: Lethbridge, Alberta

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: John T Westlake
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1916
Birthplace: Canada
Race: White
Home in 1930: Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
Address: 139 Main Street
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Edward T Westlake
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Name: Ethel Westlake
Mother's Birthplace: England
Household Members:
Name / Age
Edward T Westlake 52
Ethel Westlake 48
John T Westlake 14

The Harvard Class Album 1938

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: John Westlake
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1916
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Canada English
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
Home in 1940: New York, New York, New York
Street: West 115
House Number: 54
Inferred Residence in 1935: Norwalk, Connecticut
Residence in 1935: Norwalk, Connecticut
Citizenship: Naturalized
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Household Members:
Name / Age
Clinton W Keyes 52
Minnie Keyes 52
John Westlake 24

Social Security Death Index
Name: John T. Westlake
SSN: 147-14-3439
Last Residence: 08540  Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey
Born: 26 Apr 1915
Died: 14 Aug 2002
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)


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Street Scene: Manhole Covers

July 22, 2013, 5:00 am
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Manhole covers, drain covers and street decorations
were photographed July 2013.

GRID


PLUS SIGN


DIAMONDS


CIRCLES


RADIATE



DOTS


SQUARE / RECTANGLE


STAR


LIGHTNING BOLT


PLANTS


FISH


SCRIPT


ALPHABET


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Creator: Dale Enzenbacher

July 29, 2013, 5:00 am
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I was introduced to the work of Dale Enzenbacher in the mid-1970s at the dealers room of the San Diego Comic-Con when it was at the El Cortez Hotel. His art is truly remarkable. At the time all I could afford to buy were the belt buckles you see above. For more information on Enzenbacher, see Starlog #25, August 1979, page 17, “SF in Bronze: The Mad Sculptor of San Francisco” by Bob Woods, which can be read at the Internet Archive.

(Next post on Monday: Kalogramas and Kalogram)
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Lettering: Kalogramas and Kalogram

August 5, 2013, 5:00 am
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Mexican artist Torres Palomar is the person behind the creation of the kalogramas, which he said “is the psychological portrait of an individual expressed in color with the letters of his name.” As of this writing, the earliest mention of him and his kalogramas was in The Craftsman, October 1914:



“Beauty-Letters
Down in Mexico City is a modest studio papered with hand-made paper, hung with 
hand-woven curtains and draperies stenciled with curiously interesting medallions, 
furnished with quaint hand-made tables, chairs and cabinets. Torres Palomar, a designer 
of monograms, made this studio and all the things in it after his own ideas of beauty and 
the need of individual expression. He lives there in the heart of that excitable city, 
peacefully absorbed in combining letters of all languages into beautiful monograms or 
kalogramas, as he calls them, a word of his invention meaning “beauty-letters.” A 
monogram or kalogram is in reality but a little enigma, a rebus made up of the interlaced 
or cleverly combined initials of a man's name, sometimes of the full name itself. To be 
good, says this enthusiast, it must be easy to guess else it fails its purpose; besides, 
complicated things are never beautiful. Monograms must be beautiful as well as useful. 
There is a satisfaction in deciphering a good monogram, a pleasant sense of triumph. If 
the design is confused so that the letters cannot be easily perceived, then it is 
unsuccessful, for it carries with it an unpleasant impression of failure.

The work of Torres Palomar is distinguished for its originality of design, its harmonious 
coloring, its legibility and its extreme simplicity. Monograms of his designing are full 
of refreshing individuality, for he is a bit of a humorist, a kindly sympathetic one who 
cannot help but make letters fittingly suitable to different personalities. So he makes 
them gracious, dignified, severe, flippant, aristocratic, slender or heavy, as varied as 
human nature itself. To the designing of these small intimate emblems of character, 
intended for use on stationery and household napery, as bookplates, crests and seals, he 
applies the big general principles of art.

Color and music harmonies are closely related according to him, and exercise a similar 
fascination. The mere repetition of a geometrical pattern or of a color note does not 
produce beauty or quicken the imagination any more than the repetition of a sound 
produces music that appeals to the emotions. There must be a harmonious arrangement 
or combination of form and of color to prevent monotony and bring about beauty. He 
has learned to improvise with letters and colors, developing a multitude of harmonious
 figures as a musician improvising with notes creates new and haunting melodies. His 
improvisations spring from a long experience as an engraver, an invaluable experience 
which gave him thorough acquaintance with the chemistry of colors and the technique 
of printing. He has played with the letters of many ages, studied ancient Egyptian, 
Arabic and Cufic inscriptions, examined old missiles, seals and devices of heraldry. So 
beneath his impromptu kalogramas is a wide technical knowledge of the principles of 
pure form and symbolism, as beneath the simplest melodies rest the complicated laws 
of counterpoint.

Monograms in the form of a single sign, representing a name, have been in use from 
the earliest ages. They were man’s first efforts at a signature, a crude attempt to imprint 
his individuality upon objects, or to proclaim his ownership. More elaborate ones 
composed of the several initials of a name have been found upon very ancient Greek 
coins and upon medals and seals of Macedonia and Sicily. Popes, emperors and kings 
of the Middle Ages used them in lieu of signatures. In Japan even today initial 
monograms or those involving the full name, made up in the form of seals, are in 
general use for signing pictures, letters, contracts, bills, receipts, etc. They are used, in 
fact, wherever a personal signature is demanded, and most decorative objects they are 
indeed, for they are often purely emblematic instead of kalographic. A seal, with a bit 
of red wax, in cleverly contrived plain or ornamental cases, hangs from the girdles of 
all men, whether workman, merchant or scholar.

The work of the early artists, engravers and craftsmen of Germany. Flanders and many 
other European countries was signed solely with the initials of their makers, which 
were frequently interwoven with figures of symbolic character. The most widely known 
monogram is without doubt the ecclesiastic I. H. S., formed of the first three letters of 
the Greek name of Jesus, or, as it is sometimes explained, of the first three letters of the 
Latin sentence Jesus Hominum Salvatore (Jesus Savior of Men). The most common 
form of monogram is the square, which represents the foundation principle of life, or 
the circle, the line of perfection, which, like the infinite, is without beginning or end 
and incloses all. Some of the simplest ones are a primitive sort of shorthand. A rebus 
forming a pun upon a man’s surname was once extremely popular in England. Pictorial 
signatures were also once in common use in England, as, for instance, the letter N 
between crude sketches of an ox and a bridge, which plainly stands for Oxenbridge. 
Many old English ideograms persist even unto today, such as lb. for pound and our 
own mark $ for dollar.


Palomar moved to New York City around 1914. An exhibition of Palomar’s work, including some kalogramas, was at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, 291 Fifth Avenue, New York City, from December 9th to January 9th. The show was mentioned in The Vassar Miscellany, December 17, 1914; American Art News, December 12, 1914, page two, column two; and the New York Times, December 20, 1914, column three.

Palomar wrote about his kalogramas in the article, “The Revival of the Cryptic Monogram”, for a 1915 issue of Harper’s Bazar. Some ofhis subjects were Gaby Deslys, Pavlova, Réjane, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Paul Poiret, Tzet Kranil, and Anatole France. Here are some excerpts:

…The making of beautiful letters is an art in itself. I have spent twenty years in studying 
the making of Kalogramas and there is still so much to learn. Beautiful writing has been 
numbered among the lost arts; in reviving the cryptic monogram and enlarging its scope, 
I have been able to show that the simplest letter may be truly a work of art….

…My object is not only to make the letter combinations as beautiful as lies in my power, 
but to read in them a meaning. In each of the perfected groupings, therefore, some 
characteristic or achievement of the person is used as an inspiration….I try to get rhythm 
and melody into each combination. One letter is always the key-note, and, as in music, 
a certain motif is repeated throughout the whole combination….

…R is the most melodious letter of the alphabet. I love to draw it. M is also an inspiring 
one to develop….

…There is much that is fascinating and even instructive in the development of these 
name-plates. I first study the character and appearance of my clients and then draw 
roughly a “tapestry” depicting the impressions I have received. This forms the 
groundwork for the design which is finally created….


An article in the New York Herald, April 4, 1915, introduced the kalograma to a new audience.



Now the “Kalograma”
The origin of the “kalogramas” may be found in Chinese and Japanese antiquity 
among the seals used by the nobility and famous artists. But between this far distant 
chirographic art and the up to date kalogramas of Torres Palomar—the artist who 
has made a specialty of designing them and who has lived most of his life in the 
Orient—there is the same grade of distance that exists between the customs of these 
ancient people and our modern life of refinement and extreme civilization.

Kalogramas (Greek from belles-lettres) are the seals made of one’s personal name 
worked up to a superior form of art and beauty. They are something link an 
aristocratic escutcheon of refinement and beauty, which, moreover, can tell the 
character of the person to whom it belongs. For there is in the heraldic of modern 
life the same thing as in a heraldic exemplary; the virtues of the possessor are 
explained in the kalograma as in medieval blazon.

Kalogramas are most successfully employed in marking with these characters of 
grace and personality the stationery of fastidious persons. It plays a dainty role when 
used as embroidery on handkerchiefs and all sorts of lingerie.

Engraved or enameled on metals for the boudoir, for silverware or porcelain 
hammered brass or beaten gold; they are also used as a modern blazon on leather 
furniture, or are carved in wood.

They may be woven in carpets hangings for furniture, coverings, or painted on the 
doors of carriages, automobiles, or sculpted in the architecture of residences, forged 
in ironwork of fences, incrusted in marquetry in ceilings or floors. In fact, they 
lend themselves as a beautiful ornamentation to all sorts of personal belongings.

Some of the kalogramas that have already been carried out are reproduced here 
with a description of their coloring. That of Pierre Loti has the character of the 
author who wrote “Aziyade” and “Fantom d‘Orient” delineated by the charming 
arrangement of the profiled dark green letters which form his name. The letter O, 
round and colored in a saffron tone, rises like a moon against a twilight sky which 
could well be that of Islam, beloved of the writer. Loti wears a ring on his right 
hand on which is engraved and enameled in colors the kalograma designed by 
Torres Palomar.

Caruso’s kalograma is in gold, merging into silver, against a background of strong 
indigo that grades to a Nattier blue.

For D’Annunzio there is a design of gold and blue on a white ground, and, struck 
by the mystic quality in the works of the Italian master, the artist has tried, above 
all, to express this quality.

Otero’s kalograma is black on green with thistle red, heightened by gold.


Vanity Fair took note of the kalogram’s popularity in its June 1915 issue with the article, “The Growing Fad of Kalograms and Nine Kalogrammic Designs by C.B. Falls.” Charles Buckles Falls produced designs for Isadora Duncan, Marie Doro, Ruth Chatterton, Irv or Ty Cobb, President Wilson, Vernon and Irene Castle, two others and himself. The magazine article, which was released in May, apparently caught the eye of a number of newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, June 6, 1915, which ran the following article on its women’s page:

The New Fad Kalograms
Have you a kalogram? Do you know what a kalogram is? It is excusable not to. 
Kalograms are a fashionable novelty recently introduced into everyday life.

They are a something more than monograms, filling the same role more adequately, 
and also infinitely more difficult to create, so that a new calling for artists is created 
and a “Kalogramist” or grammarian is likely to be a sign appearing on any jewelers 
or stationers from now on.

Instead of your initials your entire Christian or surname or both—or the initial of one
 and all the letters of the other go to compose the kalogram.

There are, of course, as many ways of constructing then as there are names. You 
can take the first letter and if it be one with apertures, so to speak, group all the other 
letters inside it. In a way it is merely a very complicated monogram that you have to 
construct. One very unique kalogram consists of the printed initials of the first name, 
with the surname written as the owner signs it, twisted about the initial and encircles 
with a final swirl of the last pen stroke.

The outline of the kalogram can subtly suggest the character of the person to whom 
it belongs. A man’s is usually stiff and square, a woman’s often graceful and much 
more ornate.

It does not matter what kind you have, but, granted the fads of fashion interest you, 
a kalogram there must be on your note paper, your hand bag, your handkerchief—
nor will your motor be quite in style without one.


The Washington Herald (District of Columbia) printed their article, “Have You a Kalograma?”, August 15, 1915. The graphics arts industry also took notice of the “kalogram”with this article in the American Printer, September 1915: 


A New Idea in Personal Devices
The monogram as a personal device for stationery and advertising uses has been 
cleverly developed into what is called the Kalogram, which, enlarging on the idea 
of the monogram, includes all the letters of a name, arranged decoratively. The 
four specimens reproduced below were designed by the Eclipse Electrotype and 
Engraving Company, of Cleveland. They’re all different and all good, and indicate 
the variety of treatment that is possible in the working out of the idea. These marks 
are used for stationery, for bookplates, for the auto, and in a business way have 
uses that are unlimited. Printers who wish to demonstrate to their customers that 
they are thoroly [sic] up-to-date should make suggestions to them along these lines.


The following month, The Printing Art, October 1915, quoted the Vanity Fair article:


Behold the Kalogram
In one of its recent issues, Vanity Fair, that mixture of sweetness and light and social 
devilishness, takes valuable space (which otherwise would be used to show pictures 
of the omnipresent Castles and their dances), to tell us that “Nowadays, not to have a 
Kalogram is to be socially ostracised [sic]. It is like not having a motor-car, or a Pom, 
or a wrist-watch. Everybody’s doing it! A Kalogram must, of course, not only contain 
one’s initials but every blessed letter in one’s surname, or Christian name, or both! 
Here is a great chance for stationers, designers, artists — and lovers.”

We show here a number of Kalograms designed by the Eclipse Electrotype & 
Engraving Company of Cleveland. There is evidence of enterprise in the display. 
Someone in that company is watching the magazines and adapting some of the frittery 
fads of society to profit-making. The Eclipse folks have a man whose brain is kinky 
enough to design any kind of an eccentric Kalogram. The best evidence with which 
to support that statement you will find on this page.


According to Rodolfo Mata’s article, “José Juan Tablada y Cuba” (see excerpt below), in Literatura Mexicana, XXII. 1, 2011, the poet, José Juan Tablada, shared an apartment, at one time, with Palomar. During his stay he drew a “kalogramas murals”.

Los años de 1915, 1916 y 1917 son oscuros en la vida de Tablada. No hay 
publicaciones recogidas y muy pocas noticias. José María Gon­ zález de Mendoza 
cuenta que al llegar a Nueva York se vio obligado a trabajar en una fábrica de focos 
donde se olvidaron de pagarle la primera semana.10 En el cd­RoM José Juan 
Tablada: letra e imagen (poesía, prosa, obra gráfica y varia documental) las imágenes 
ayudaron a establecer que en 1916 compartió un departamento con José Torres 
Palomar y que ahí dibujó unos “kalogramas murales”, sus primeros poemas 
ideográficos: “Talon rouge” y “El puñal”.11 Ya desde finales de 1916 hay indicios de 
su cercanía con el consulado en Nueva York y, en 1917, muchas de las noticias 
provienen de su casamiento con Nina Cabrera y del libro que ella escribió, José Juan 
Tablada en la intimidad (1954).


In Arte y Artistas (2000) Tablada mentioned Palomar’s first exhibition and the success that followed: “...Luego triunfó, ¡qué friso aquel de kalogramas murales en su primera exposición! Obtuvo encargos remunerativos de kalogramas: Caruso, Vicente Astor, Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs. Ogden Mills…”

Palomar had another New York City exhibition which was called, “Kalogramas”, April 1918 at 520 Fifth Avenue. It was advertised in The Sun (New York), April 21.


Palomar’s work was written up in the New York Tribune, April 20, 1918:


An exhibition of Kalogramas by Torres Palomar is on public view at 520 Fifth Avenue. 
Mr. Palomar states in his announcement card that “A Kalograma is the psychological 
portrait of an individual expressed in color with the letters of his name.” In the 
collection are psychological portraits of celebrities from “God, a Conception of the 
Almighty,” to “Nabisco,” of the National Biscuit Company.

“God” is a kalograma in gold letters on a blue disc, which is pasted on a white disc 
with a gray blur; this again is placed on a black disc, the whole being mounted on a 
satiny gold paper. Above this portrait is hung the “Mexican Republic,” a design in 
green, red and brown.

“Sarah Bernhardt” is black, blue and coral pink, while Irene Vernon Castle’s 
psychological analysis is a blue and pink butterfly, with long, thin attenae and legs. 
“Geraldine Farrar” also is a butterfly, though more rich in color. It is rather 
disappointing to find “Enrico Caruso” in a conventional design of quiet blues and 
grays. “Tortola de Valencia,” Spanish dancer, had much color, showing two full 
moons on the crest of a wave.

“William Randolph Hearst” is shown in his true colors, black and red in the centre, 
Puritan gray outside.

Other Kalogramas represent Maurice de Maeterlinck, Lina Cavalieri, Muratore, Alla 
Nazimova, Rejane and Eugene Ysaye. Mr. Palomar displays much ingenuity in his 
clever combinations of varied colors and textures of paper.

The exhibit will be on display for the rest of the month.


Another article on the show appeared in the New York Herald, April 28, 1918:


Psychology Discovered in Kalogram Portraits
Letters of Name Arranged and Colored So as to Express Temperament and Aspiration 
of Numerous Sitters.

Kalograma by Torres Palomar are on exhibition at No. 520 Fifth avenue. What is a 
kalogram? “The psychological portrait of an individual expressed in color with the 
letters of his name,” answers Mr. Palomar.

For example, in Enrico Caruso’s kilogram the letters arrange themselves in a circle, 
expressing a human being absorbed in or encircled by a dominating gift. Artistic 
sincerity is represented by the color blue—“true blue”—which shades off from dark 
indigo to a light blue finale, representing the high note, high C, in “Di quella pira,” 
for example. Other letters are of bronze, merging into silver and then into gold 
(which last may represent Mr. Caruso’s income tax).

The range of the kalograms is great. Mme. Nazimova’s complex personality is 
expressed by a subtle intertwining of the lines of her letters, “against a smouldering 
background.” In Miss Helen Keller’s kalogram light struggles against darkness.

Portraits in kalograms may show different orders of motion. In the kalogram of 
Miss Tortola de Valencia, a Spanish dancer, her art, which Mr. Palomar considers 
to be expressed equally in the rapid Spanish dances as well as in the melancholy 
rites of the Moors, is shown by the use in the color scheme of the red and yellow 
of Spain and gray black, purple and violet with vaporous white. The crosses of the 
t’s, like spreading arms, reach out for the o’s, which are circles representing 
tambourines. In Mme. Irina Karsavnia’s kalogram the lines of the letters obviously 
symbolize dance steps. Quite different in its representation of movement is the 
kalogram of Miss Halle Kosoloff, a skater.

Mme. Sonia Sikowska’s kalogram is in the shape of a whirling, slanting disk. 
Within it is the Mohada Buddhistica, the mystic, Asiatic symbol of life. One would 
have preferred something less obvious than a butterfly arrangement of letters, 
suggesting “Madame Butterfly” for Miss Farrar.

Gold is the color in the c of the kalogramistic portrait of Miss Anna Case. It is 
explained that this is not intended to represent money, but the expression “golden 
throated.” In the curves of the blue m’s in Maurice Maeterlinck’s portrait one 
catches a glimpse of the wings of the blue bird.

There is more variety that can be imagined in portraits produced by the art of 
kalograms. Mr. Palomar tells me has made thirty-five thousand kalograms.


Stationery shops were quick to capitalize on the popularity of the kalogram. The American Stationer and Office Outfitter, May 26, 1917, printed the article, “The Golden Wedding Ring Displays,” that mentioned kalograms three times on pages 32 and 34. The Jewelers’ Circular-Weekly, May 29, 1918, noted the availability of a kalogram booklet for stationery shops: “‘Kalograms’ is the title of an attractively printed little booklet, measuring 7 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. These are featured by the concern's stationery department. The booklet illustrates uniquely designed ‘Kalograms’ used by celebrities such as Marie Doro, Ruth Chatterton, Maud Adams, President Wilson and other. The ‘kalogram’ has become quite the vogue in society. All the die work and printing is done under the concern’s special supervision, nothing being sent out to a print shop.”

In 1920, advertisements for the kalogram by Mark Cross appeared in the New York Tribune and The Sun and the New York Herald.

The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has two issues of the periodical, El Universal Ilustrado (Mexico City), that mentioned Palomar and his kalogramas. “Tres Artistas Mexicanos en Nueva York: Marius de Zayas, Pal-Omar, Juan Olaguíbel”, by José Juan Tablada, appeared in the January 1919 issue (see Synopsis). “El arte de los calogramas: Torres Zubieta”, by Rafael Heliodoro Valle, was published February 1923 (see Annotations).

The Arts and Crafts Collector has color samples of Palomar’s kalograms published in Applied Arts, Volume 1, 1919.

Julie Brown produced a number of “kalogram” portraits which were published in three consecutive issues of the Green Book Magazine in 1919.

July 1919


August 1919


September 1919

Arts & Decoration, September 1919, reviewed the work of type designer, Frederic W. Goudy, and reproduced a design with his surname (lower right corner) and called it a “kalogram.”


Guessing the kalogram was printed in the Washington Times (District of Columbia), May 15, 1920:



The answer appeared a week later, May 22, 1920: Louise Glaum.

Commercial Engraving and Printing (1921) included a definition and samples of the kalogram.





The Buckeye Book of Direct Advertising (1925) had its definition: “A design having the appearance of a monogram, but including all the letters of a name. Fanciful and used occasionally for book plates or stationery.”

R.L. Polk & Co.’s Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, 1921, had this listing: “Kalogramas Studios (no inf) 520, 5th av”. I think “no inf” was “no information” on the person who registered the company.

Julie Brown was profiled in the New York Call, May 18, 1922:



What’s in a Name? Get Drawn in Kalogram
Some faces respond kindly to photography. Others do not.

But if yon are like the majority of us—if your photographs always look pitifully like 
yourself instead of like the glorious creature you would be if your thoughts could make 
you—do not lose heart.

For the fault lies not with you but with the camera.

Yours is a personality of many complexes, all of which no mere machine can catch.

You need a more personal medium. Perhaps you will be more truthfully portrayed by 
a kalogram. A kalogram suggests your personality, but does not tell everything about 
your face.

Kalograms are the specialty of Julie Brown, New York artist.

With the letters of your name and five minutes’ conversation with you Miss Brown has 
all the material she needs. But sometimes the composition takes several days.

Kalograms got their start this way.

One night Miss Brown read that a man attempted suicide.

Investigation revealed the despondent person was an artist who painted sou! portraits 
in the natural colors.

Evidently soul painting was no easy task, or had been highly unremunerative, for after 
a few attempts the artist had been ready to end it all.

Miss Brown felt no urge to follow in his footsteps. but she did share his ideal—to 
paint something besides features. She had always believed personalities were more 
interesting than the conventional assortment of eyes and chins.

“The details of the face always escape me, but the personality makes a deep 
impression,” she explains.

“I remember people’s likes and dislikes and their fads and forgot how they looked.

“So I began to experiment with the drawing of a personality, and finally conceived 
the idea of drawing it with the letters of the name.

“Up to this time my particular branch of art had been making of silhouettes. I had 
made one for practically every actor and actress in New York and I made thousands 
in France for soldiers.

”I tried out the kalogram idea on the theatrical people, and they liked it. They used 
kalograms on their stationery and for book plates and pictures.

“Then, quite unexpectedly, the idea became very popular, and now everyone wants 
a kalogram. For stationery some people like the one I made for Anne Morgan.

"When Molla Bjursted, the tennis champion, married and became Molla Mallory, 
she changed her kalogram as well as her name. Now she has one for professional 
and one for home use.

“Marion Campbell isn’t a professional woman, but she is an enthusiastic motorist. 
So her kalogram indicates that.”

When I left Miss Brown she was making a kalogram for Ed Wynne.

“Now there’s a real problem,” the admitted, “trying to make a picture out of seven 
letters—but give me time, I’ll get it.”


The World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), January 15, 1955, reported Brown’s death.

Miss Julie Brown, 68, Cut-Out Artist, Dies
Miss Julie Brown, 68, an Omaha artist, died Friday in a local hospital. She had lived 
with a friend, Miss Emily Keller, 511 South Fortieth Street, since coming here in 1936.

Miss Brown, a native of Newport, R.I., served overseas with the Red Cross in World 
War I. She was widely known for the cut-out silhouettes she made of hospitalized 
service men. She did similar work of Broadway celebrities for Eastern newspapers.


A biography of Palomar has not been found. Ancestry.com has a copy of his World War I draft card which was signed September 12, 1918. His full name was Jose Torres Palomar and he resided in Manhattan, New York City at 1 West 47th Street. He was born in Mexico on November 8, 1874, and his occupation was painter. On the line for place of employment it said: 520 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York. The line for nearest relative had the name and address of Jean J. Allard, 46 Riverside Drive, New York. Palomar’s description was short height, medium build, with brown eyes and hair.

La Crítica de Arte en México: Estudios y Documentos, 1914-1921 (1999) has information, in Spanish, on Palomar.

News of his attempted suicide was reported in the New York Herald, April 14, 1915:


Artist, Favored by Gods, Tries to Die for Love
Torres Palomar, Cubist, Writes Letter to Girl and Then Swallows Paint.

Members of the artist colony In New York permitted themselves an unbounded series of 
amazed gasps yesterday when they learned that Torres Palomar had attempted a rather 
noisy suicide by consuming a mixed quantity of his own pigments in his studio, at No. 6 
East Forty-first street, on Monday night.

Palomar, who originated the “Kalogramas,” a new cubist method of fashioning 
monogram letters, burst with Spanish intensity upon artistic New York six months ago 
from Mexico as the “perfect man.” A true disciple of romance, he stalked about in the 
garb of a Spanish chevalier of the sixteenth century, twirling his mustaches and slapping 
the short, jewelled [sic] sword which he wore at his side.

All agreed that the futility of man’s pretensions was exemplified, in his dramatic, but not 
intense, attempt to die for love of Miss Tineds, a Spanish senorita, to whom he left a 
succinct note begging her to come to him. According to Jean C. L. Comte de Strelecki, 
photographer, at No. 238 Fifth avenue, one of Palomar’s friends, he scoffed at the gentle 
passion as a disturber of the artistic spirit and a thing not to be countenanced by a man 
on whom the gods had bestowed the gift of perfection.

“He—what is it—put women in general down,” said Comte de Strelecki. “The American 
women here, how they have—shall I say—fallen for him. He is intense, swaggering, 
courteous and chivalrous, so different from the American husband, who is a business 
man. He said many times he hated this modern world.! He came to my studio sometimes 
wearing a glorious cloak, flung over his shoulders, a sword at his a side, and ho says 
then:—‘Ah, I am happy. I shall walk to my friends up Fifth avenue in this.’

“But that he should attempt to die for love, that I cannot understand, for he had many 
friends, but I do not ever know that his heart is affected. He says he is above that and 
scoffs, and never has he once mentioned this lady for whom he takes his paints as 
poison.”

At No. 108 West 126th street, where Miss Tineds resides, she would not talk of the 
artist’s attempted suicide, but she admitted that she knew him and that they had 
quarreled. He was found on Monday night by Raymond Cacho, an artist friend, after 
he had thoroughly frightened the caretaker of the studio, Mrs. John Allen, by 
shouting in Spanish. Cacho and Policeman Thompson, who went to the studio, found 
Palomar, stained with a truly diabolical series of hues from the pigments which he had 
eaten. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he is recovering, as a prisoner, 
charged with attempting suicide.

Palomar achieved a reputation in Europe, and several years ago went to Mexico, from 
where he came to New York six months ago. He has painted portraits of Gaby de Lys 
and Pavlowa, and has executed monograms for many well known New York women.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania), April 14, 1915, had this account:

Artist Attempts Suicide
Torres Palomar, a Mexican artist, whose “Kallogramist” studio has been considered 
the last word in the New Art, and who has enlisted the patronage of such persons as 
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Odgen Mills, Anna Pavlowa and others, was taken to 
Bellevue Hospital today, a prisoner, charged with having attempted suicide by drinking 
poison. What kind of poison or whether Palomar really was anxious to die the police 
are not prepared to say.

Palomar, who came from Mexico about six months ago, lives in a two-room studio at 
6 East Forty-first street. In his room a glass containing a red mixture was found.

Dr. Dineen, of New York Hospital, was summoned and to him Palomar whispered 
that he had taken poison and wanted to die, but the physician was unable to discover 
anything either in Palomar’s condition or in the studio that indicated approaching 
dissolution.


Related to Palomar’s kalogramas are the calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire, whose book, Calligrammes: Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre 1913–1916, can be viewed, with English translation, here. Apollinaire’s calligrammes are examined in Graphic Design: A New History (2012).

The kalogram’s distant relatives may be the inversions by Scott Kim and the ambigrams by John Langdon and others.

What does a 21st century kalogram look like?


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MIKE HINGE
August 9, 1931 – August 2003

Times Square Subway Station
Roy Lichtenstein Mural
November 23, 2002


COVER ILLUSTRATION

Futuristic versions of Will Bradley’s idyllic cover.
(photocopy)

Algol
Summer 1975
(untrimmed cover)

The Inland Printer
July 1894
Art by Will Bradley

Time
October 4, 1971
(untrimmed cover)

Time
November 5, 1973

Amazing Science Fiction
January 1973
(color photocopy)

Amazing Science Fiction
March 1973
(color photocopy)

Amazing Science Fiction
December 1974

Amazing Science Fiction
September 1975
More Amazing Science Fiction covers are here and here.

Starship
Spring 1980
(color photocopy)



Amazing Stories
September 1993
(color photocopy)

Witzend 6
April 1969
(Photostat artwork and printed cover)

Assignment in Tomorrow
Frederick Pohl, Editor
Lancer, 1972



A Choice of Gods
Clifford D. Simak
Putnam, 1971
(cover proof)


The Cosmic Eye
Mack Reynolds
Leisure Books, 1979


Masters of Everon
Gordon R. Dickson
Nelson Doubleday, 1980
(dust jacket detail)


Mission to the Stars
A.E. Van Vogt
A Berkley Medallion Book, 1971


Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future
Reginald Bretnor, Editor
Advent, 1979
(dust jacket detail)


The Secret of the Marauder Satellite
Ted White
A Berkley Book, 1978


Shaggy Planet
Ron Goulart
Lancer, 1973


Transfigurations
Michael Bishop
Berkley/Putnam, 1979
(color photocopy)


The White Hart
Nancy Springer
Pocket Books, 1979
(dust jacket detail)



ILLUSTRATION

James Dean portrait
(undated; sold at auction)

(photocopy)
 

(photocopy)

Future Life
#17, March 1980

(photocopy)

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(photocopy)

Mediascene
#28, November-December 1977
portrait of Richard Dreyfus in
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

(hand-colored photocopy)

The Mike Hinge Experience
Supergraphics, 1973
(selected images)

(detail)

(detail; complete illustration here)

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(photocopy)

Cosanti Foundation

(photocopy)

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Heavy Metal
July 1979
“...Rears Its Ugly Green Head”
with Neal Adams


LETTERING AND TYPE DESIGN

Alphabet Thesaurus Vol. 3, A Treasury of Letter Design
Photo-Lettering Inc., 1971

TDC XIII
(Type Directors Club 13)
1967

Thrust
Spring 1978
Preliminary cover design; the logo was developed
into an alphabet available from Photo-Lettering.

The Mars One Crew Manual
Ballantine Books, 1985
patch designs

Business Card


ONYX
Hinge was a member of the group Onyx.

Design Quarterly
78/79, 1970
Among the numbers are his Social Security number,
telephone number, address and zip code.


LINKS
Onyx Cubeis a profusely illustrated blog on Hinge.
The Mike Hinge Reference is here.

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Ardath Mayhar
Illustrations by Pat Ortega
David Harris, Series Editor
A Byron Preiss Book
Walker & Company, 1988
The eighth book in the Millennium series.









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BEN H. ODA
December 21, 1915 – November 1984


1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Ben Oda
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1913
Birthplace: California
Race: Japanese
Home in 1930: Florin, San Joaquin Township, Sacramento County, California
Address: Florin Road
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Birthplace: Japan
Mother's Name: Tsune Oda
Mother's Birthplace: Japan
Parents' birthplace: Japan
Household Members:
Name / Age
Tsune Oda / 58 [Basket Maker]
Ben Oda / 17

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Ben Oda
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1915
Gender: Male
Race: Japanese
Birthplace: California
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Brother
Home in 1940: Florin, San Joaquin Township, Sacramento County, California
Inferred Residence in 1935: San Joaquin, Sacramento, California
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Household Members:
Name / Age
Frank S Oda / 35 [Hawaii; Farmer]
Tsune Oda / 65 [Widow]
Ben Oda / 25

World War II Army Enlistment Record
Name: Ben H Oda
Birth Year: 1913
Race: Japanese, citizen (Japanese)
Nativity State or Country: California
State of Residence: California
County or City: Los Angeles
Enlistment Date: 3 Feb 1941
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private (paratrooper)
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Actors and actresses
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 66
Weight: 145

U.S. City Directories
Name: Ben H Oda
Residence Year: 1948
Street Address: 601 W 110 
Phone Number: MOnumnt 3–1841
Residence Place: New York, New York
Publication Title: New York, New York, City Directory, 1948 (below)


Justice Traps the Guilty #56, November 1953

The line-up from left to right:
Ben Oda, Joe Simon, Joe Genalo, Mort Meskin and Jack Kirby.

Mad #13, July 1954
At the bottom of the page, in blue pencil, is Kurtzman’s note:
“Ben! on all pages!” (arrow points to circled number one).


Jonah Hex #33, February 1980

DC Profiles Number 56: Ben Oda

Ben Oda has been lettering comics since 1945—and not just comic books, either. Ben has, at one time or another, done the lettering for such comic strips as Rip Kirby, Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, Dondi, On Stage, Quincy, Gil Thorpe, Dr. Kildare, The Phantom, Steve Canyon, Kerry Drake, Secret Agent X-9, The Dropouts, Terry and the Pirates, and Tarzan.

Of course, Ben has lettered virtually all of DC’s major characters, too, including Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.

Ben is widely renowned throughout the industry as one of the best letterers around. Professor John Adkins Richardson singled Ben out for special praise in his book, The Complete Art of Cartooning. Yet Ben claims there is no special secret to what he does. He uses standard Speedball lettering pens and his own steady hands and keen eye for spacing to produce hundreds of pages of expertly lettered comic books and strips every year.

Ben actually began his career as an apprentice at the Walt Disney Studios after graduating from the Choinard [sic; Chouinard] School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles. But his stay there was cut short in early 1941 when he was drafted into the Army. Some months later the U.S. entered World War II and Ben found himself being transferred all over the country. His Army years provided Ben with an opportunity to further his education and after a tour of duty in France he found himself attending classes at the University of Illinois at Champaign and later at Yale University. While stationed at Fort Sheridan (Illinois) with the First Medic Corps, Ben wrote and drew a comic strip called “Donald Doc” for the camp newspaper.

But Ben’s “best accomplishment” in those days came when the Fort Sheridan basketball team, which he played for, beat rival Camp Grant—just after that team had clobbered the number one college team in the country! “It was my biggest thrill,” recalls Ben. “The Camp Grant commander was so proud of his team—he made sure that any professional athletes who got transferred to his command stayed at Camp Grant and played on his teams. We showed him.”

After the War, Ben found work with Simon and Kirby, and went on to work with a succession of comics publishers—Crestwood, Hillman, Ziff-Davis, EC, Gold Key, and others. Ben worked for MAD at the very beginning and was also in on the start of Warren Publications. These days, though, Ben restricts his comic book work exclusively to DC.

Ben is the father of two sons and two daughters, aged 28, 23, 21, and 19, and lives with his wife of more than 30 years in New Jersey.


The Comics Buyer’s Guide, #585, February 1, 1985
“Ben Oda dies at 68, long-time letterer”


Superman #408, June 1985
“Ben Oda Remembered”
By Andrew Helfer


Social Security Death Index
Name: Ben Oda
SSN: 567-12-7986
Born: 21 Dec 1915
Died: Nov 1984
State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951)


POV: Point of View 
Mark Evanier
[excerpt]

...There's no way of calculating it but I'd guess that if you tallied who has lettered the most balloons, the late Ben Oda would hold the record, especially if you included newspaper strips. At one point, Ben was supposedly lettering twelve daily strips, along with all the comic book pages he did for almost every publisher in and around New York.

He did so much that some editors assumed he had a whole staff back home, trained to letter exactly as he did. This was apparently untrue. There were family members who helped by ruling guide lines and erasing pages, but the lettering, I'm told, was all by Ben. Every downstroke of it.

He was uncommonly trustworthy. Jack Kirby used to say Ben was the most valuable employee of the Simon-and-Kirby shop. Irwin Hasen, illustrator of the Dondi strip, gave Ben a key to his studio. He could depend on Ben to come and go at all hours, picking up the work and bringing it back when needed, or lettering it on the premises if deadlines got tight. “Ben never once let me down,” Hasen said. I never heard of Ben letting anyone down.

The one time I met Oda, it was at a New York comic convention — either ’75 or ’76 — and he took the train in on a Saturday to deliver three (yes, three) pages to Paul Levitz so that Paul could get them to an inker who needed work on Monday. Ben was not there for the con; he intended to just drop work off and split...and he would have, had I not introduced myself, dropped the name of Kirby, and dragged him off for a cola and a chat.

I still have the notes I took at that impromptu interview. At one point, Ben demonstrated a point by taking my Flair pen and lettering a whole line of copy on my pad. Evelyn Woods couldn't read a stop sign in the instant it took Ben to letter that sentence.

The main thing I jotted down was what an enormous fan he was of all the artists whose work he lettered. He also said that, of all the varied employers he’d had, only one or two had ever treated him poorly. (Which I can believe. There are editors who would swap blood relatives for one letterer like Ben.)

Later on, I heard a wonderful story about him. Artists are forever cobbling up presentations for newspaper strips they hope to sell. Many of them wanted to hire Ben to letter their samples, but Ben felt bad about taking money from an artist, especially given how few of these submissions ever pay off. So he finally established a policy: As long as they didn’t need it A.S.A.P., he would letter samples free for any professional artist. If the strip later sold, he would expect the job of lettering it, but that was not mandatory.

The artist who told me this said it was not a matter of Ben trying to drum up work. “Ben always had all the work he could handle,” he explained. “It was just his little gift to his fellow professionals.”


The Silver Lantern
John Workman
[excerpt]

JW: Harvey Kurtzman hated the Leroy lettering at EC. There were this guy and his wife who had worked for Bill Gaines’s father and did all the Wonder Woman lettering. It was all Leroy-lettered. It’s a type of mechanical lettering that's done with a sort of a stylus, and all the letters have no difference between them. It was used a lot in drafting. But here it was in comics. I actually kind of liked it. I thought it gave the EC’s a unique look, but part of that was the fact that this fellow and his wife would do only the lettering itself. The titles, the sound effects, and the balloons were done by the individual artists, so you’d get these beautiful brush balloons done by Wally Wood where he didn’t ink it with a pen. He used a brush. Then there’d be a big, drippy Graham Ingels balloon and the sort of free floating wonderful things that Al Williamson did. That uniform lettering actually helped to magnify the individuality of the artist’s style. But Kurtzman hated it. When he got a little say in things up there he brought in Ben Oda to hand letter the stuff that he worked on.

Prof: Frank Springer told me a great story about Ben. He said that Ben must not have slept and he had the keys to the places of a lot of the artists and he’d show up at all hours of the day to knock out a few things and Frank said, “Perhaps it’s a good thing Ben’s not with us any more because he probably could have written a tell-all that would have had all of us heading for the hills.” (Mutual laughter.)

JW: You’ll have to talk to Irwin Hasen. He’s got a great story about that exact thing with Ben. Bob LeRose told me a story about the time when Bob used to work for Johnstone and Cushing and an 18-year-old Neal Adams was there doing wonderful stuff. Ben lettered a lot for them, and Bob was once awakened by a phone ringing at 3 in the morning. It was Ben, who’d been locked in the building. He'd stayed in there and was working, and he couldn’t get out. So Bob drove into town and rescued Ben. (Laughter.) Ben was also an incredible athlete. He was, I guess, almost a professional level bowler. His sons made part of their college tuition by bowling, they did so well. He was also very good at basketball. He was about my height, 5'6" or 5'7" and I remember one time the DC guys were in Central Park and we were playing a warm-up baseball game. It was Steve Mitchell and me and Bob Rozakis and Jack Harris and all these guys in their 20’s, but the two best athletes on the team were Ben Oda and Bob LeRose, both of whom were in their 50’s. It was really something to see.


POV: Point of View
Irwin Hasen
[excerpt]

M.E.: Ben Oda.

Hasen: Oh! Ben Oda was the letterer to the stars. Ben Oda had five strips...

M.E.: I think he had a lot more than that at times.

Hasen: He may have. He was a wonderful person...a Japanese-American who’d fought in World War II as a paratrooper. He was a wonderful person and a slave to several of us cartoonists. He lettered On Stage, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Dondi, a couple of others...

We would all give him the keys to our apartments and Ben would come in the dead of the night, like Santa Claus. He’d slip in and the strips were on the drawing board. He’d sit right down, and it didn’t matter how late he had to work...two, three o’clock in the morning, whatever. But he’d do the lettering and then he’d leave, as quiet as a mouse...

There's a funny story about me and a lady one night but I don’t think I can tell it here...

M.E. Sure, you can. [And with prompting from the moderator—who has heard the story and loves it — various audience members demand its telling.]

Hasen: All right. (laughter) I have a large apartment—a Brownstone. A gorgeous apartment with high ceilings. My desk is over here (gestures), there's a little garden outside the second floor...bedroom over here...living room...and this is my studio.

One night I'm entertaining a lady friend and we started getting intimate in the living room on the couch. There’s a coffee table right in front of us. The lights are out and we're sitting there and I’m about to make my big play...and all of a sudden, I hear, “click” — the door! And I thought, ”Oh, my God! It’s Ben!” Quickly, I whisper to the lady, ”Get underneath the coffee table!”

We slid off the couch. We slid under the coffee table so he wouldn’t see us. Ben comes in, puts on a light...doesn’t say a word. He puts a light on by my drawing table, takes his coat off, lights a cigarette, rolls up his sleeves and goes to work. I thought we were going to have to stay like that 'til he’d lettered a whole week of Dondi! (Audience laughs hysterically)

I should have just said something when I heard the click but no, I had to be a wise guy! So it ended up with the lady and me...we finally crawled slowly, so Ben wouldn’t hear us, into the bedroom. On our hands and knees. But to this day, I’m sure he knew. He just didn’t want to embarrass us because, you know, he was that kind of gentleman.

M.E.: Did she understand who he was?

Hasen: Oh, yeah. But Ben was that kind of man. It was very sad...he died of a heart attack. He smoked incessantly. When I went to his funeral in Jersey, there was that line where the family stands and you pay your respects. Now, I’m prone to guilt anyway, but when I got up to her, his wife said, “You had him up working lot of nights, late.” Oh, boy!


The Silver Lantern
Frank Springer
[excerpt]

FS: Of course there was Ben Oda years ago.

Prof: Yeah, Gaspar told me in his typical unpretentious way that Ben Oda was the real genius

FS: Ben Oda lettered Phoebe Zeitgeist. He lettered the whole thing.

Prof: There was plenty to do, too.

FS: Yeah, and he lettered for everybody. He lettered for George Wunder when I worked on Terry and the Pirates. He would show up with this portfolio that weighed a ton. It was this huge portfolio just jammed with strips and he worked for Stan Drake, he worked for Leonard Starr, he worked for Hal Foster, he worked for George Wunder, he worked for Milton Caniff, he worked for this, he worked for that…

Prof: Wow, he really ran the gamut.

FS: He was in the studios of all these people and we thought if Ben ever wrote a book about what he saw in some of these studios, everybody would have to leave town. (Mutual laughter.) He was just terrific. A World War II veteran. He saw combat in Italy with the Nisei, the Japanese-Americans unit there while his family was interred in Wyoming.


The Comics Journal #274
[excerpt]

Michael Dean: Did you go from P*S to Warren?

Mike Ploog: Yeah. There was a letterer. Ben Oda, he was fantastic. He used to come up to the office all the time and say, “Hey listen, you'’ve got to do comics.” So one day, I was still on P*S when I went over to [James] Warren, because who could afford to work for Warren without another job?

Dean: [Laughs.] You were between two skinflints.

Ploog: Oh God, they were the cheapest men that God ever put on Earth. And again, you had to like the guy, he had the nerve to actually do it. I went over there and did a couple of stories for Warren.

Dean: Now, Warren, at some point, did revive The Spirit. Was Eisner at all a connection to Warren, or did that come later?

Ploog: Not really. Jim knew I was working with Eisner, but Ben Oda was the guy that actually sent me over there, and had spoken with Jim, so that was more or less the connection.


Comics: Between the Panels (1998)
…In a move reminiscent of the Golden Age, when publishers hustled out ashcans to secure the copyright on specific titles Warren called in Goodwin and a letterer, Gaspar Saladino. “Utilizing some inventory material from Creepy [Warren’s flagship title] as well as some material already printed, the three of us cobbled together a pamphlet-sized little magazine emblazoned with the Eerie logo already designed for us by our regular letterer, Ben Oda,” Goodwin said. “Warren had simple line repro printing done on it overnight. By the next morning, there were about 200 copies of Eerie #1 in existence.”


Creepy and Eerie Confidential
by Russ “Unca’ Creepy” Jones
...Kable News Company did distribute another monster magazine, and that was one of the many reasons Warren wanted out of his contract with them. It was Castle of Frankenstein, published by Calvin Beck, and edited by Bob Stewart. In fact, Bob did pretty much the whole magazine, from design to completion, but COF had no real schedule. It was supposed to be a bi-monthly, but on average, two issues a year was about it. Kable wanted a title that would really be on a schedule, and that meant getting it to press ontime. We settled on the title, Monster Mania, and Ben Oda did our logo. Lee was to handle the mail order from his home in Elkins Park, Pa, and I would be responsible for the editorial chores from the studio at The Clifton....

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Murder, She Wrote
“The Dead File”, November 15, 1992 air date

I mentioned this episode to Larry Hama and he explained that Gerry Conway was a story editor on the TV series. Having worked at Marvel and DC Comics, Conway knew many of the industry people. For this episode, he combined the names of letterers Ben Oda and Irv Watanabe to create Ben Watanabe. The character’s late night work schedule was based on Oda. Below is a partial credit’s list and description of Ben Watanabe’s screen time. Spoiler alert!

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, mystery writer
Harvey Fierstein as Stan Hatter, cartoonist
Rodney Kageyama as Ben Watanabe, letterer
Kris Kamm as Teddy Graves, Hatter’s assistant
Susan Kellermann as Sergeant Martha Redstone
Jon Polito as Lieutenant Peter DiMartini

Ben Watanabe is a comic strip lettering artist. At 4:45 in the morning he enters cartoonist Stan Hatter’s dark apartment. He walks to a table, sets down his tool box, opens it, pulls out gloves and puts them on. He walks to the drawing board, sits down, turns on the light and begins lettering the word balloons in the “Hatterville” comic strip.

Sometime later, walking down the stairs of the National Cartoonist Society headquarters, Watanabe and Teddy Graves are following Hatter who is talking to mystery writer, Jessica Fletcher. He tries to convince her that he did not do the strips with a character modeled after her, Jessica Fox, that have appeared in the newspaper. He points out details in the drawing style but Fletcher is not convinced. Grave’s points out the hand, and Watanabe adds, “And that’s not my lettering, Mrs. Fletcher.” Stan can’t explain why this is happening. The newspaper syndicate editor shows up to bring bad news to Hatter.

Later, Watanabe shows up at Hatter’s apartment at 3:45 in the morning. Seeing the drawing board lamp on, he walks over and picks up the artwork. He realizes something is wrong with them but turns his attention to a noise in another room. He walks slowly toward the room when he is struck on the head and collapses face up on the floor. Later, the police are all over the outside of Hatter’s building. A chalk outline on the sidewalk indicates where Watanabe’s body was found. Sgt. Redstone, who has been questioning Hatter, tells Fletcher that Watanabe died of massive head trauma. They go to Hatter’s studio. Hatter says Watanabe “had everything to live for, a wife, two daughters and a house in Scarsdale.” Fletcher asks about the statuette with a cracked base on the drawing board. Graves says it’s a Reuben Award, the comic strip equivalent of the movies Oscar. The sergeant speculates that Watanabe was behind the forged comic strips. Hatter says Watanabe was strictly a lettering artist. The sergeant persists and says Watanabe was the mastermind of the scheme but he became disconsolate and committed suicide or his partner murdered him.

Fletcher has her own theory, so later she and Lt. DiMartini reexamine Hatter’s studio. At the police precinct the two explain their theory to Redstone who is still unconvinced. Fletcher calls Hatter’s studio and leaves a message. At 2:15 in the morning, Graves enters the studio, walks to the potted plant, lifts the base and removes a glove. The lights go on and Redstone tells Graves he is under arrest for the murder of Watanabe and extortion. Graves confesses to forging the strips but didn’t intend to kill Watanabe. On the evening of the murder, he explains that he was working and took a coffee break when Watanabe arrived an hour early and saw the forged strips. Graves said he accidentally bumped something and Watanabe, who has a black belt in karate, walked in his direction. He said Watanabe “looked like he was ready to kill.” Graves said he grabbed the Reuben Award statuette and struck Watanabe on the head, then he dragged the body to the balcony and pushed it over. He hid the glove under the plant just in case the police stopped and searched him outside the building.

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Under Cover: Hong on the Range

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Illustrations by Phil Hale,
Darrel Anderson and Richard Berry
David Harris, Series Editor
A Byron Preiss Book
Walker & Company, 1989
The ninth book in the Millennium series.










William F. Wu (left) and me at the Asian American ComiCon, July 11, 2009, held at the
Museum of Chinese in the Americas. We’re holding a binder with the storyboards to the
1985 Twilight Zone adaptation of Wu’s short story, “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium.”

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Creator: Augustus L. Jansson

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The Inland Printer, September 1903


The Inland Printer, October 1903 (postcard version is here)


The Inland Printer, November 1903


The Inland Printer, December 1903


The Inland Printer, January 1904


The Inland Printer, February 1904


The Inland Printer, March 1904

The Inland Printer, 1904 (advertisement was found here)


The Inland Printer, 1904 (advertisement was found here)


The Inland Printer, October 1904 (complete image is here)

The Inland Printer, November 1904 (postcard version is here)

The Inland Printer, December 1904 (postcard version is here)

The Inland Printer, March 1905

The Inland Printer, April 1905 (postcard version at eBay)

The Inland Printer, May 1905

The Inland Printer, June 1905

The Inland Printer, July 1905

The Inland Printer, August 1905

The Inland Printer, September 1905 (see December 1904 for postcard link)


The Inland Printer, November 1905 (see December 1904 for postcard link)


The Inland Printer, December 1905 (postcard version is here)


The Inland Printer and The American Printer/The International Printer, 
January 1906 (postcard version is here)


The Inland Printer, February 1906 (postcard version is here) and 
The American Printer/The International Printer, February 1906 and April 1907


The Inland Printer, March 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, March 1906

The Inland Printer, April 1906 (postcard version is here)


The American Printer/The International Printer, April 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, April 1906

The Inland Printer, May 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, May 1906

The Inland Printer, June 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, June 1906

The Inland Printer, July 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, July 1906

The Inland Printer, August 1906


The American Printer/The International Printer, August 1906

The Inland Printer, September 1906

The Inland Printer, November 1906

The Inland Printer, February 1907
(second version is here; postcard version is here)


The American Printer/The International Printer, March 1907

The Inland Printer, April 1907 (see February 1906)


The American Printer/The International Printer, April 1907
(see October 1903)

The American Printer/The International Printer, May 1907

The Inland Printer, October 1907

The Inland Printer, July 1908 (see March 1905)


The Inland Printer, August 1908 (see July 1905)


The Inland Printer, December 1908
(complete image is here; see November 1903)

Detail of a printed piece is here.


Augustus Ludwig Jansson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 17, 1866, according to the Boston birth records at Ancestry.com. 

Jansson produced artwork for the color comic section of the Boston Herald Sunday newspaper. “In Plaiddie Land” and “Moon Rhymes” appeared in 1901. Three years later in 1904, the following comics were published: “New England Mother Goose”, “Odd Folks”, “The Old Veteran’s Story”, “The Boston Tea Party” (You can view it at the Sunday Press website, move the cursor over “Sample Pages”, click “Society Is Nix”, then click arrow in the right margin.), and “The Battle of Bunker Hill”.

The National Magazine printed two rhymes of Jansson’s “The Zigzag Mother Goose” in the July 1903 issue (below).



Jansson’s book, Hobby Hoss Fair was published in 1904, and reviewed in the Cambridge Chronicle, December 10, 1904.

In 1906 Jansson created the “Colonial Characters” for the wholesale clothier, Smith, Sherman & Co., of Boston. The illustrations were in advertisements that appeared in the bi-monthly trade magazine, Men’s Wear.

November 6, 1909

November 21, 1909

December 5, 1909

December 19, 1909

January 9, 1907

January 23, 1907

February 6, 1907

February 20, 1907

March 6, 1907

March 20, 1907

April 10, 1907


April 10, 1907

April 24, 1907

May 22, 1907

June 6, 1907

June 19, 1907

July 10, 1907

July 24, 1907

August 8, 1907

August 21, 1907

September 11, 1907

September 25, 1907

October 9, 1907

October 23, 1907

The Stripper’s Guide and the Davistown Museum have samples of Jansson’s work including tableware for Wedgwood. Jansson’s art reminds me of some of Seymour Chwast’s illustrations. 

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Fortune Cookie Day

September 13, 2013, 5:00 am
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Fortune Cookie Day: July 20 or September 13.

The fortune cookie was known first as the fortune cake.
An unopened jar of Jan-U-Wine Fortune and Tea Cakes
has a label with a 1934 copyright. The contents may be
79 years old.



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Creator: Clarence P. Hornung

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Clarence Pearson Hornung
June 12, 1899 – January 2, 1997

The Inland Printer
February 1922










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Lux Mentis Booksellers


The New York Times
January 4, 1997
Hornung, Clarence P.
On January 2, 1997. 97 years. Beloved husband of Rose and the
late Sara. Devoted father of Richard and Elaine and Donald and Sis. 
Loving grandfather and cherished great grandfather. Services Sunday,
1:30 P.M. at “Gutterman’s Inc.”, 175 Long Beach Rd. Rockville Centre,
L.I. Interment at the Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York.

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Anatomy of a Logo: Magik

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On July 6, 1983, Louise Jones called and said she needed a logo in two days. She added that I could do whatever I want. I accepted and quickly produced a number of sketches and developed a half-dozen of them for presentation. The next day I met Louise at the Marvel office and she picked one. Back at my studio, I made a tight pencil drawing of the logo on tracing paper, Later I positioned the drawing on a light box, then placed a piece of LetraMax 2000 over it. The inked logo was delivered to Louise on July 8.



























I don’t have the original art but I did make a same-size photostat of it (above). The letterforms are related to my Were Wolf logo for Neal Adams’ Monsters graphic novel.



Covers of the four-issue mini-series.


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Street Scene: Subway Uptown–Downtown

September 30, 2013, 5:00 am
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• N E W Y O R K C I T Y •
72nd Street and Central Park West, Manhattan


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Under Cover: The Homecoming

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Barry B. Longyear
Illustrations by Alan Clark
David Harris, Series Editor
A Byron Preiss Book
Walker & Company, 1988
The tenth book in the Millennium series.












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Anatomy of a Logo: Barb Wire

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The Barb Wire logo was for Dark Horse editor, Marliee Hord. At the time I was working on the Agents of Law logo, and earlier I had done the Will to Power logo for her. The editors were allowed to use freelance designers if the in-house designs did not meet their expectations. On October 13, 1994, Marilee offered Bare Wire to me and said I was free to pursue any design.

In the original logo, the letters in Barb are stacked vertically to the left of Wire.

In my initial sketches, I saw the possibility of a single letterform acting as three letters: B, W and E.



On another page of sketches, I stacked the name and created a diagonal link with the Rs. I enlarged it and worked on refining it.



As it turned out, the letters in Barb were the same height. The W in Wire extended below the baseline. The serifs were spiky, somewhat like barbwire. I wanted to make both names somewhat equal in size and more legible.



Further refinements were made to the Bs, although they still didn’t match. The small negative spaces below the A and R, and in the W are distracting and probably would have been eliminated. The A isn't quite right; it needed a different slant to increase the space between it and the B, and decrease the space with the R. But this design was faxed to Marilee and she liked it.



I started exploring a symmetrical design in this sketch, which was done on October 22. 


Marilee called and said to hold off on any more work on Barb Wire. On November 18, she called and said two things: a memo had been issued to the editors stating that all logos had to be produced in-house; and that Barb Wire had been optioned for a movie, so, no changes could be made to the logo. (As it turned out, the movie logo used Wire, while Barb was redesigned and made the same height.) After the conversation, I sent in my invoice for the kill fee and never heard from Dark Horse again.

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Lettering: The Cactus 1929

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The Cactus 1929
University of Texas at Austin
Yearbook designed by Burger Baird
of Kansas City, Missouri

















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