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Loren and Elizabeth Slater Anthony papers (16.2.2)

Rhode Island School of Design Archives

Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email: risdarchives@risd.edu

Scope & content

The collection contains essays, class notes, and sketches by Elizabeth Slater for the Elements of Civilization and History of Art courses taken during her freshman, sophomore, and junior years as well as two folders of notes for typography and graphic arts courses. The typography folder includes a copy of "The New York Times Type Supplement" showing the type faces available in the composing room (undated) and "A Complete One-line Showing of Artintype Faces" by Artintype, Inc. (undated). There is one notebook created by Loren Anthony for his sophomore History of Art course and a copy of the "Rhode Island School of Design Yearbook, 1941-1942".

The collection includes professional graphic design work for the cover of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company's magazine "The Signature," 1948 May (1:5). The folder contains that issue as well as the issues for 1948 July and August and the company's "The Story of the Pilgrims," 1945.