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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><img width=359 height=232 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CECFEC.572977D0" alt="lecture_collecting_type"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:#333333'>Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Typ 515.54.296<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dateline style='background:white'><span style='color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=dateline style='background:white'><span style='color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=dateline style='background:white'><span style='color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:#333333'>Thursday, November 7, 5:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:#333333'>Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><strong><span style='color:#333333'>Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=dateline align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><strong><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Collecting Type on the Page: </span></i></strong><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#333333'><br><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Printing History Libraries in America </span></strong></span></i><strong><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><strong><span style='color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>by Paul F. Gehl<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p style='background:white'><span style='color:#333333'>Several ambitious printing history collections were created in the United States between 1890 and 1940, during what is often considered the golden age of American type design and print production. These collections both served and reflected the increasing power of the printing industry. That of Philip Hofer was the last-begun, and it is clear that he learned from the strengths and weaknesses of the earlier foundations. This talk will outline the typographic ethos of America around mid-century, and then focus in on the long and cordial relationship between Hofer and his colleagues at the Newberry Library in Chicago -- three successive curators of the Newberry's Wing Foundation on the History of Printing (established 1919). As his collecting grew in scope and sophistication, Hofer began to have a profound influence on the collecting of type and book arts in Chicago, even as he attended closely to what his colleagues there were up to.<br><br>Paul F. Gehl is an historian of education and printing. He is the fourth individual to hold the title of Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, and, since he assumed that role only in 1987, he is the first Wing curator who did not know the direct influence of Philip Hofer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For further information please call Monique Duhaime at 617-495-2441 or write to <a href="mailto:Duhaime@fas.harvard.edu">Duhaime@fas.harvard.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>