FOBO - Strong’s Book of Designs (page 1/2)

Some sample images

[picture: Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses]

Meant apparently as a cover design for a bulletin, there is a chapterhead ornament of roses with vertical Art Deco stems, and also a rectangle with a baby sitting amidst leaves and thorns (ouch), the words “Mellon’s Baby Food” with roses behind the letters, and Health Insurance for the “Kiddo’s” written [...] [more...]

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Banner with ribbons and Snitch

An Art Deco (Jugenstile) masthead design featuring a woman holding a winged sphere.

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Monroe Colliery Co.

A sign for a fictional gas and coal company, including a torch surrounded by a wreath. It would make a great prop for a picture or film set in America in 1910 or so. [more...]

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Title Page

Strong’s Book of Designs: A Masterpiece of Modern Ornamental Art [more...]

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Pictures from Strong’s Book of Designs: A Masterpiece of Modern Ornamental Art by Chas. J. Strong and L. S. Strong of the Detroit School of Lettering, Frederick J. Drake & Co., Chicago, 1917.

The book consists of designs for calling cards, signs, ornaments and so forth.

The copy here lacks the original front cover.

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Strong’s Book of Designs (page 1/2)

Some sample images

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