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Title PageStrong’s Book of Designs (1917)

Strong’s Book of Designs: A Masterpiece of Modern Ornamental Art Comprising new ideas and designs of every conceivable sort of interest to the sign painter, card writer and commercial artist Includin [...]

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Banner with ribbons and SnitchStrong’s Book of Designs (1917)

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

Keywords: borders, octagons, floriated borders, ribbons, people, women, balls, wings, art deco, greyscale

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Monroe Colliery Co.Strong’s Book of Designs (1917)

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. Monroe Colliery Co. Fairmont Gas [...]

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Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and rosesStrong’s Book of Designs (1917)

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 [...]

Keywords: babies, borders, chapterheads, roses, flowers, art deco, lettering, greyscale

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