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Title: Billboard (Jan-Jun 1899)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Billboard Advertising Co.
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : R.S. Littleford, Jr., W.D. Littleford
Contributing Library: Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
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gers have re-canted. The logic is with the billboards andlithographs. They have the greater dramaticforce for advertising the drama.—Fame. Poster collectors, lithographers, printers,designers and everyone interested in modernposter art,will be delighted with the ex-cellent new monthly magazine. The Poster,published in London. - Six numbers. are be-fore us. June, July. August. September, Oc-; tober and - November, and all are attractiveand interesting. It is about the size of TheCentury, and replete with excellent illustra-tions—some in colors—and valuable articleson poster ait and artists of all countries.No one interested in posters can afford tobe. without it. and will derive much pleasureand profit from it. The pi ice is 25 cents anumber or $3.00 per pear. If you wxiiM curtivate a persuasive stylerenumber that ue-thing will aid you morethan plain, homely, honesty arid extremeiccdeiaUcn. A Oeorgia editor writes:The gladdest wot da of tougue or penAre these: Insert my ad again.
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W. C. Qulnby, the well-known compositorwho for over sixteen years was with the En-luirer Job Printing Co.. Cincinnati, has as-sumed charge of the type department of TheDonaldson Litho. Co. Mr. Quinby has practically created the de-partment under his charge. All of thepresses are of bis selection, all the type of hischoosing: in fact, he bought everything—fur-niture, fittings, cases, etc. He has given his genius full sway, and in-troduced many a clever idea in bis depart-ment. One of them, a saver of labor and timein the printing of dates, is especially note-worthy. He has evolved several other wrinkles thatare also good, but his system in wood-type lathe brightest thing we have seen of late.He introduces the point system, and makes it justify. The Donaldson Co. is rushed now with cir-cus work, and is running far into the night. By the new mosaic-chromatic heet pro-cess of printing in colors, the necessary pig-ments are applied in any desired number andyanety on a plate about three-f

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