Barnhart Brothers & Spindler
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Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs. Oz Cooper
, Will Ransom
, Robert Wiebking
, and Sidney Gaunt
all designed for BB&S. It was bought out by American Type Founders
in 1911 with the proviso that the merger would not take effect for twenty years, so that the employees would have a chance to find new work or retire over time. The foundry was finally closed in 1933.
Oswald Bruce Cooper
Oswald Bruce Cooper was an American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and teacher of these trades.-Early life and education:...
, Will Ransom
Will Ransom
Will Ransom was an American graphic designer, letterer, typeface designer, and the foremost bibliographer of private presses.-Youth and early career:...
, Robert Wiebking
Robert Wiebking
Robert Wiebking was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrixes for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.-Life and career:...
, and Sidney Gaunt
Sidney Gaunt
Sidney Clyde Gaunt was an American typographer, and artist.Prolific producer of type designs while "shop artist" for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry...
all designed for BB&S. It was bought out by American Type Founders
American Type Founders
American Type Founders was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States...
in 1911 with the proviso that the merger would not take effect for twenty years, so that the employees would have a chance to find new work or retire over time. The foundry was finally closed in 1933.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Advance Type Foundry (AKA Wiebking, Hardinge & Company), ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, bought out by Western Type FoundryWestern Type FoundryWestern Type Foundry was founded in 1901 to compete with the conglomerate and near-monopoly, American Type Founders. In 1914 Western purchased the Advance Type Foundry in Chicago from Wiebking, Hardinge & Company, though even before this Robert Wiebking did most of the punch-cutting and matrix...
in 1914. - Western Type FoundryWestern Type FoundryWestern Type Foundry was founded in 1901 to compete with the conglomerate and near-monopoly, American Type Founders. In 1914 Western purchased the Advance Type Foundry in Chicago from Wiebking, Hardinge & Company, though even before this Robert Wiebking did most of the punch-cutting and matrix...
, Saint Louis, Missouri, bought by B.B.&S in 1918.