If you are interested in contributing materials to the Archive, please contact us. ![]() ![]() Download a hi-res sampler of images from the collection ![]() We’re thrilled that Letterform Archive will now get to share his history, art, and process with many more. George’s Speedball textbooks and pens have aided countless calligraphers and lettering artists over the last 100 years. With this post we gratefully acknowledge George’s family’s donation of an archive of his work, containing drawings for original alphabets published in the Speedball textbooks, his pens (including some early prototypes), showcards and other examples of his lettering and drawing, account books, papers, and photos. The PDF file 59 MB is made available with his permission. in Camden, NJ in 1927, was scanned in 2014 by Lee Littlewood, a signpainter in Portland, OR, who runs Lee's Better Letters 2915 NE 21st A, Portland, OR 97212. George (1889–1959) was the inventor of the Speedball pen and author of the first 17 editions of the Speedball textbook (now in its centennial edition). George's book Speedball 10, published by C. Seattle sign painter and showcard writer Ross F. Mockup for Round Hand Script sample alphabet, by Ross F.
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