Barnhart Brothers & Spindler

Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry
Former type	Defunct
Industry	Type foundry
Founded	Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1873
Defunct	1933
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Key people	Oswald Cooper, Will Ransom, Robert Wiebking, Sidney Gaunt

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.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Advance Type Foundry (AKA Wiebking, Hardinge & Company), Chicago, bought out by Western Type Foundry in 1914.
Western Type Foundry, Saint Louis, Missouri, bought by B.B.&S in 1918.

Typefaces

These foundry types were originally cast by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler:^[1]

Cooper Black (1922, Oswald Bruce Cooper)
French Clarendon was a nineteenth-century BB&S face that was re-released in 1938 by ATF as P. T. Barnum.^[2]

References

↑ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408-249
↑ Provan, Archie, and Alexander S. Lawson, 100 Type Histories (volume 1), National Composition Association, Arlington, Virginia, 1983, pp. 20-21.

External links

Pages from 1907 catalog on Flickr

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