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Prominent Men of Scranton and Vicinity (section title), 1906
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Title
Prominent
Men
of
Scranton
and
Vicinity
(section
title)
,
1906
Alternative Title
Prominent
Men
of
Scranton
&
Vicinity
-
Title
Page
Design
,
1906
(Stoddard)
Identifier
pwc-cov_0013
Description
Section
title
page
from the
1906
volume
'
Prominent
Men
:
Scranton
and
Vicinity
,
Wilkes-Barre
and
Vicinity
,
Pittston
,
Hazleton
,
Carbondale
,
Montrose
and
Vicinity
,
Pennsylvania
' by
Dwight
J
.
Stoddard
. This
page
introduced
the
section
on
Prominent
Men
of
Scranton
and
Vicinity
and
features
lettering
and
illustration
by
artist
P
.
W
.
Costello
.
Dimensions
6 in x 9 in
Artist
Costello, P. W., 1866-1935
Subject
Penmanship, American
Title pages in art
Illustration of books
Scranton (Pa.) -- History
Dimmick, J. Benjamin
Scranton, George W. (George Whitfield), 1811-1861 -- Portraits
Scranton, Joseph H. (Joseph Hand), 1813-1872 -- Portraits
Local Tags
digitized
cover art
Medieval
German Text
Block
Commentary by the Artist and Others
Thomas
W
.
Costello
,
great-grandson
of the
artist
,
comments
: '
Mr
.
Costello
decorated
the
area
around
and
between
the
photos
with
finely-drawn
filigree
and
stone
pebbles
. He
used
a
Celtic
design
of
intertwining
vines
and
clover
around
all
four
borders
. The
title
at the
top
of the
page
, '
Prominent
Men
',
is
lettered
in an
outlined
medieval
style
. At
bottom
, '
Scranton
&
Vicinity
'
is
lettered
in a
variation
of
German
Text
. For the
words
, '
Lackawanna
County
,
Pennsylvania
,
1906,
' he
used
a
decorative
form
of
Block
Lettering
.
Mr
.
Costello
often
took
conventional
letter
forms
and
made
them his
own
by
adding
small
curves
to the
body
or
serif
of the
letter.
'
Date Created
1906
Decade
1900-1909
Category
Cover art
Geographic Location
Scranton (Pa.)
Collection
P. W. Costello and Family Art Collection
Scranton Local History Collection
Source
Private collection of Thomas W. Costello
Access Rights
Public
Type
Still image
Text
Format
image/tiff
Language
eng
Rights URI
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Rights
Public
Domain
(United
States)
URL
https://archive.org/stream/prominentmenscra00stod#page/n16/
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