| LC control no. | n 79089477 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 |
| Variant(s) | Vinne, Theodore Low de, 1828-1914 De Vinne, Theo. L. (Theodore Low), 1828-1914 DeVinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 |
| See also | Employer: Francis Hart & Co. Founded corporate body: Theodore L. De Vinne & Co. Founded corporate body: De Vinne Press |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1828-12-25 |
| Death date | 1914-02-16 |
| Place of birth | Stamford (Conn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Printers Type designers |
| Found in | His The state of the trade, 1872: t.p. (Theo. L. De Vinne) MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914; usage: Theodore Low De Vinne; Theodore L. De Vinne; Theo. L. De Vinne; note: organizer, along with Peter C. Baker, of Typothetae, an association of master (employing) printers) Koenig, M. De Vinne and the De Vinne Press. The library quarterly, Volume 41, number 1 (January 1970): abstract (Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914); apprenticed to the printer of the Newburgh (New York) Gazette at the age of fourteen; in 1850 he joined the Francis Hart Company as ajourneyman compositor and rose to partnership in 1858; after the death of Hart, De Vinne purchased Francis Hart & Company in 1883 and it became Theodore L. De Vinne and Company until his retirement from direct control in 1908. At this time the company took the corporate name of the De Vinne Press, surviving as such until 1923; De Vinne pioneered in developing typographic style, as a type designer, a historian of printing and printing types, an adapter of new technology to fine printing, and an educator of the printing trade) page 1 (Theodore Low De Vinne was born in Stamford, Connecticut on Christmas Day 1828) page 4 (In his eighty-sixth year, on Monday, February 16, 1914, Theodore Low De Vinne died) The last thing to learn is simplicity, 1930: t.p. (Theodore L. DeVinne) OCLC database, Aug. 16, 2012 (hdg.: DeVinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914; usage: Theodore Low DeVinne) New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission. DeVinne Press Building, 393-399 Lafayette Street, Borough of Manhattan, 1966: page 1 (Theodore DeVinne was a noted printer) Wikipedia, viewed on March 11, 2019 (Theodore Low De Vinne was an American printer and scholarly author on typography. De Vinne did much for the improvement of American printing) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2012110262 |
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