Sol and Sadie Malkoff
Papers,
1939-1999
CFM1999_01
The materials were
created by
Sol Malkoff
10
Boxes; 7 Linear Ft.
Special Collections and University
Archives,
University of Central Florida Libraries,
P. O. Box 162666 Orlando,
FL 32816,
Telephone: 407-823-2576,
E-mail: speccoll@mail.ucf.edu
Special Collections,
University of Central Florida Libraries.
Sol Malkoff's
correspondence, photographs, research, and collected materials including over a
hundred typography and font specimens.
Materials are written in
English
Selected Subjects and Access Points
Similar records may be found by searching under the following index
terms.
Graphic design (Typography)
Type and
type-founding
Calligraphy
Penmanship
Acquisition Information
Sol Malkoff and his family donated his collection to the UCF Art
Department in 1999. Printing equipment and type was retained by the Art
Department, while his books and paper materials were given transferred to the
UCF Libraries in 1999.
Processing History
Materials were sorted and listed by type.
Access
The entire collection is open for research.
Copyright Statement
Unpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish
quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright
holder.
Related Material
Books donated by Sol and Sadie Malkoff can be found in the Library
Catalog by searching the series note: Sol and Sadie Malkoff Book Arts
Collection.
Preferred Citation
Sol and Sadie Malkoff Collection, Special Collections and University
Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Biographical Note
Sol Malkoff was born in Chicago in 1918. A typographer and
calligrapher, he moved to Central Florida in 1976. A past president of the
Typographers Association of New York and a life member of the Type Directors
Club of New York, Malkoff began assembling his collection of books on type
design and printing in 1939, when he became a composing room
compositor-linotype apprentice. He was associated with leading printers and
typographers in Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Orlando. A cofounder of the
Typography Shop in Atlanta, he pioneered the concept of a type house producing
photoprocess hand lettering. Malkoff wrote and lectured on typography and
taught typographic design and calligraphy. He died on January 17, 2001,
survived by his wife Sadie.
Collection Scope and Content
A resource collection of correspondence and photographs, clippings,
pamphlets, periodicals, graphics, and type foundry specimen books. The
collection assembled over 60 years by graphic artist Sol Malkoff demonstrates
the principles of good calligraphy, typography, graphic design, and book
design.
Arranged by subject. Most file folders retain the subject headings
established by Sol Malkoff.
Contents List
Series I: Correspondence and photographs.
1961-1997.
2 folders.
Correspondence and notes with some enclosures, to Malkoff,
primarily from typographers and calligraphers. 1 letter from Malkoff describing
his life's work. 1 photograph of typographers, 3 photocopies of unidentified
photographs, 1 packet of photo-postcards of the Museum Plantin-Moretus.
1
1-2
Correspondence and Photographs
1961-1997
Series II: Subject Files.
undated.
Collected notes, pamphlets, clippings, articles, and graphics on
various aspects of calligraphy, penmanship, typography, and design.
1
3
Articles authored by Malkoff
undated.
1
4 – 5
Alphabet, Hebrew
undated.
1
6
Alphabets, non-Roman
undated.
1
7
Arranging the printed page
undated.
1
8
Borders and ornaments
undated.
1
9
Calligraphy
undated.
1
10
Computer/design education
undated.
1
11
Computer/design education, notes and handouts for class
taught by Malkoff
undated.
1
12
Design and layout
undated.
1
13
Display
undated.
2
14
Fonderie G. Peignet et Fils
undated.
2
15 – 17
Fonts (see also Folder 47, Box 5 for oversized
materials)
undated.
2
18
Fonts, Emigre
undated.
2
19
Fonts, proofs of
undated.
5
51
Fonts. Miscellaneous oversized materials.
undated.
2
20-21
Handwriting
undated.
2
22
Handwriting, Palmer method
undated.
2
23
Handwriting, Teaching Children to Write series
undated.
2
24
History of letters
undated.
2
25
Introduction
undated.
2
26
Legibility
undated.
27
Malkoff Typeface
undated.
3
28
Miscellaneous
undated.
3
29
Monotype (for mathematics)
undated.
3
30
Photography
undated.
3
31
Presses
undated.
3
32
Printing equipment
undated.
3
33
Printing equipment, linotype
undated.
3
34
Printing processes
undated.
3
35
Quick reference
undated.
3
36
Rulers
undated.
3
37
Terminology and arithmetic / math
undated.
3
38
Text
undated.
3
39
Typefaces
undated.
3
40
Typographica magazine covers
undated.
undated.
4
41
Typography
undated.
4
42
Typography designers
undated.
4
43
Typography, status of research
undated.
4
44
Visual / Verbal
undated.
4
45
White space
undated.
4
46
Why letters are shaped that way
undated.
4
47
WWW (world wide web)
undated.
Series III: Periodicals.
1938-1985, undated.
Collected articles on typography from Visible Language and other
unidentified periodicals.
4
Prince, J. H. “Printing for the Visually
Handicapped”. London: Institute of Printing Limited, 1966.
1966
4
Payne, Donald E. “Readability of Typewritten
Material: Proportional Versus Standard Spacing”.
undated.
4
Foster, Jeremy J. “Directional Consistency in
Form Identification”.
undated.
4
“Letterform Research Needs Definition and
Direction: A Report from the Editor”. The Journal of Typographic
Research.
undated.
4
Hailstone, M. and J. J. Foster. “Studies on the
Efficiency of Drug Labelling”.
undated.
4
Wendt, Dirk. "O or 0?"
undated.
4
Vartabedian, Allen G. “A Proposed Fontstyle for
the Graphic Representation of the Oh and Zero”.
undated.
4
Becker D., J. Heinrich, R. von Sichowsky, D. Wendt.
“Reader Preferences for Typeface and Leading”.
undated.
4
Fontein, Jan and Money L Hickman. The Calligraphy of
Ch’an and Zen Monks”. Visible Language, v. 3 Summer 1971.
1971
4
Knuth, Donald E. “Lessons Learned from the
Metafont”. Visible Language, XIX 1 Winter 1985.
1985
4
Carter, Matthew. ”Galliard: a modern revival of
the types of Robert Granjon”. Visible Language, XIX 1 Winter 1985.
1985
4
Knuth, Donald E. “The Concept of a
Meta-Font”. Visible Language, XVI 1 Winter 1982.
1982
4
Fairbank, Alfred. “Handwriting Reform”.
Typography.
undated.
4
Kolers, Paul A. “Clues to a Letter’s
Recognition: Implications for the Design of Characters.”
undated.
4
DiMeo, Katherine P. “Visual-motor Skills:
Reponse Characteristics and Pre-reading Behavior”.
undated.
4
“Correspondence”. The Journal of
Typographic Research.
undated.
4
Crosby, R. M. N. “Recognizing the Marks on
Paper”.
undated.
4
Wiggins, Richard H. “Effects of Three
Typographical Variables on Speed of Reading”.
undated.
4
Simon, Oliver, ed. Signature, v. 11, March 1939.
1939
4
Gebrauchs Graphik: International Advertising Art,
August 1938. (in German)
1938
4
Photography, Report No. 1, March 1972. (2 copies)
1972
4
Terapia: Medicina, Investigaciones Farmacologicas,
Artes, Ano XI, Nos. 3-4, date unknown.
undated.
4
What’s New, No. 130, December 1948.
1948
4
What’s New, No. 152, December 1950.
1950
4
What’s New, No. 186, December 1954.
1954
5
51
Series IV: Portfolios.
undated.
Portfolios of printing samples including flyers, pamphlets,
advertisements, keepsakes, business cards, and greeting cards.
5
48
Portfolio no. 1.
Bookmark, “Compliments of The Tinhorn
Press”
Business Card “The Tinhorn Press”
“To Make a Dish of Snow”
“Caslon Antique” Atlanta: The Tinhorn
Press
“Since We Last Appeared…” The
Tinhorn Press
Business Card “Phoenix Publishing Co.”
“Signature Shop and Galleries Eskimo Caring
Exhibit 4”
“Eskimo Carving Exhibit 3/Signature Shop and
Galleries”
“Best Wishes for a Merry
Christmas…” Typography Shop
“Fry’s Ornamented”
“Christmas 1971”
“Christmas Greetings from the
Robertsons”
Christmas 1964”
“Merry Christmas” Tinhorn Press Atlanta
Birth Announcement “Anna Melisse Wells”
“May 7, 1964, Janice and Evan
Armstrong”
Kohn, Norman. Beginnings
“Original Old Style Italic” Atlanta:
The Tinhorn Press
Ellis, Eugene Vincent. Six Poems. Atlanta: The
Tinhorn Press, 1967
“A Prospectus Concerning the Establishment of
a Printing Office at Stone Mountain Park and the proposed publication of a
newspaper, The Gazette”
“Relief to all Afflicted… P. J.
Kenney’s Saloon…”
“Printer’s Page”
Keystone Book of Caslons Type Classics
Caslon Adbold Group, Keystone Type Foundry
Caflisch, Max. Manual Typographicum. 1954 (excerpt)
“Award …W. F. Robertson,
Inc….Union Oil Company”
Woodcut “Francis, Robertson… pr. Kal.
Ium. mcmlxxx”
Bookplates
5
49
Portfolio no. 2.
“The Kelsey Press Company” Coupon,
Letters, Envelopes, Advertisements re: Printing Press dated 1910
undated.
Broadside “Sir Richard Steele, 1710”
undated.
“Excerpts from A Short History of the Printed
Word by Warren Chappell”
undated.
“Ladies Night and Annual Christmas Party
1949”
undated.
“Goudy Evening in Atlanta”
undated.
“Horace”
undated.
“Colophon” and 2 Haikus(?)
undated.
“Cochin Black Italic”
undated.
Photocopy of calligraphy alphabet page “E. F.
Detterer 1946”
undated.
The Barnhart Flyer, v. 2 no. 4, New York, N. Y.,
August 1912.
undated.
5
50
Collection of 20 gift books and keepsakes
undated.
Typophile Monograph No. 24: “Seed Corn, House
Organ of the Molehill Press,”
undated.
Typophile Keepsake: Chappell, Warren. Littera Scripta
Manet: My Life with Letters
undated.
Poe, Edgar Allen. The Raven and the Bells, 1917.
1917
“Hobby Cast”
undated.
Keepsake: Hopkins, Richard L. “On
‘Sets’ etc.: The Trials and Tribulations of Casting Monotype
Matrices”. Terra Alta: WV, Hill & Dale, 1986.
1986
“Tom Typo: A Technical Ballad”.
Atlanta: The Recalcitrant Press, 1989.
1989
“The Printer’s Towel”. Atlanta:
The Recalcitrant Press, 1989.
1989
“Stealing Spaces”. Atlanta: The
Recalcitrant Press, 1984.
1984
“Printer’s Marks Old & New”
Hines, Laurence. “A Pilgrimage to
Hingham”. No. 12, Proofs & Pulls, August 1986.
1986
“Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days”.
Chicago: At the Sign of the Gargoyle, 1954.
1954
v. 11, no. 7, Sez Higgins-McArthur, May 1948.
1948
v. 11, no. 8, Sez Higgins-McArthur, June 1948.
1948
v. 12, no. 1, Sez Higgins-McArthur, December 1948.
1948
v. 12, no. 2, Sez Higgins-McArthur, Spring-Summer
1949.
1949
Sez Higgins-McArthur, Spring 1950
1950
“Typocrafters Meeting Atlanta 1960”
1960
McArthur, Richard N. Primus Inter Pares. Atlanta:
McArthur Memorial Library, 1960.
1960
“Jan Ischichold on typography”
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. The Ideal Book. Doves Press,
1900.
1900
Bewick & Leo. Turtle Press, 1990.
1990
“25th Anniversary of The Type Directors Club,
New York, 1971”
1971
Series V: Typography Specimens.
undated.
6-10
Typography specimen books collected by Malkoff describe multiple
fonts from many different sources.
6
1
#18 , T-26 Digital Type Foundry
6
2
Adobe Caslon , Adobe
6
3
Adobe Garamond , Adobe
6
4
Adobe Type Guide , Adobe
6
5
Adobe Type Guide , Adobe
6
6
Adobe WoodType 1 , Adobe
6
7
Adobe WoodType 2 , Adobe
6
8
AgfaType Collection , AGFA
6
9
AgfaType Collection , AGFA
6
10
Akzidenz Grotesk series , Eltra Corporation
6
11
Alphabet Supplement 62’ , Photo-Lettering
Inc.
6
14
American Typewriter (2) , ITC Licensed
6
15
Americana Alphabets , Photo-Lettering Inc.
6
16
Art Deco , Photo-Lettering Inc.
6
17
ATF American Series , Eltra Corporation
6
18
Authentic Photographic Xylotype ,
Photo-Lettering, Inc.
6
19
Avant Garde Gothic , ITC Licensed
6
20
Avant Garde Gothic Condensed (2) , ITC Licensed
6
21
Avant Garde Gothic with Oblique , ITC Licensed
6
22
Barcelona (2) , ITC Licensed
6
23
Bauer Bodoni series , Eltra Corporation
6
24
Bauhaus , ITC Licensed
6
25
Bauhaus (2) , ITC Licensed
6
26
Benguiat (2) , ITC Licensed
6
27
Benguiat (2) , Photo Lettering Incorporated
6
28
Benguiat Condensed , ITC Licensed
6
29
Benguiat Gothic , ITC Licensed
6
30
Berthold City Series , Eltra Corporation
6
31
Bitstream 1000 , Bitstream Inc.
6
32
Bookman (2) , ITC Licensed
6
33
Brass Rules, c.1 , The H.C. Hansen Type Foundry
6
34
Brass Rules, c.2 , The H. C. Hansen Type Foundry
6
35
Caratteri Nebiolo , Societa Nebiolo Torino
6
36
Caslon No.224 (3) , ITC Licensed
6
37
Caslon Oldstyle No. 471 and Caslon Oldstyle No. 540 ,
Liberty
6
38
Caslons Thirteen , Barnhart Brothers &
Spindler
6
39
Century , ITC Licensed
6
40
Charlemagne , Adobe
6
41
Cheltenham , ITC Licensed
6
42
Clearface , ITC Licensed
6
43
A Collection of Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895-1905 ,
Photo-Lettering Inc.
6
44
Corvinus , The Bauer Type Foundry, Inc.
6
45
The CR Typebook , The Composing Room, Inc.
6
46
“Cross Refrenced” One Line Index ,
Lettergraphics
6
47
Digital Typeface Directory , The Mergenthaler
Type Library
6
48
Elan , ITC Licensed
6
49
Eras (2) , ITC Licensed
6
50
Esprit , ITC Licensed
6
51
Fenice , ITC Licensed
6
52
FontFont Library , Font Shop International
10
53
FontHaus 7 , FontHaus
6
54
Franklin Gothic , ITC Licensed
6
55
Friz Quadrata (2) , ITC Licensed
6
56
Garamond , ITC Licensed
6
57
Graph (2) , ITC Licensed
6
58
Graph with Oblique , ITC Licensed
6
59
Isbell , ITC Licensed
6
60
Italia (2) , ITC Licensed
6
61
Italia Series , Eltra Corporation
6
62
Italian Type Founders , Nebiolo Company
6
63
ITC Benguiat series , Eltra Corporation
6
64
ITC Berkeley Old Style (2) , ITC Licensed
7
65
ITC Cushing (2) , ITC Licensed
7
66
ITC Flora , ITC
7
67
ITC Franklin Gothic Condensed series , ITC
7
68
ITC Galliard (2) , ITC Licensed
7
69
ITC Gamma , ITC Licensed
7
70
ITC Garamond , ITC Licensed
7
71
ITC Giovanni , ITC
7
72
ITC Golden Type , ITC
7
73
ITC Isadora , ITC Licensed
7
74
ITC Jamille (3) , ITC Licensed
7
75
ITC Kabel series , Eltra Corporation
7
76
ITC Leawood , ITC Lettering
7
77
ITC Legacy , ITC
7
78
ITC Lubalin Graph Condensed series , ITC
7
79
ITC Modern No. 216 (3) , ITC Licensed
7
80
ITC New Baskerville (2) , ITC Licensed
7
81
ITC Officina , ITC
7
82
ITC Panache , ITC
7
83
ITC Quay Sans , ITC
7
84
ITC Quorum (2) , ITC Licensed
7
85
ITC Stone , ITC
7
86
ITC Typeface Family , ITC Licensed
7
87
ITC Ultra with Book series , ITC Licensed
7
88
ITC Usherwood , ITC Licensed
7
89
ITC Zapf Dingbats , ITC Licensed
7
90
ITC Zapf Dingbat series , Eltra Corporation
7
91
Kabel (2) , ITC Licensed
7
92
Korinna , ITC Licensed
7
93
Korinna with Kursiv , ITC Licensed
7
94
Lettergraphics/Custom ,
7
95
Linotype Decorative Material , Merganthaler
Linotype Company
7
96
Linotype Faces , Merganthaler Linotype Company
7
97
Lithos , Adobe
7
98
Ludlow Typefaces , Ludlow Typograph Company
7
99
The Many Faces of Weltz Ad Service, Vol I ,
Weltz Ad Service, Inc.
7
100
The Many Faces of Weltz Ad Service, Vol II ,
Weltz Ad Service, Inc.
7
101
The Many Faces of Weltz Ad Service, Index and specimens ,
Weltz Ad Service, Inc.
7
102
Mergenthaler Cochin series , Eltra Corporation
7
103
Mergenthaler Frutiger series , Eltra Corporation
7
104
Mergenthaler Galliard Series , Eltra Corporation
7
105
Mergenthaler Raleigh Series , Eltra Corporation
7
106
Miller Typography , Miller Typography
7
107
Minion , Adobe
7
108
Minion , Adobe
7
109
Mixage , ITC Licensed
7
110
Monotype Perpetua Series ,
8
111
Monotype Typeface Library, Synopsis Catalogue ,
Monotype
8
112
Myriad , Adobe
8
113
New TR Bold (and Various) , Typography Shop
8
114
New Baskerville , Photo-Lettering Incorporated
8
115
Newtext (2) , ITC Licensed
8
116
Novarese , ITC Licensed
8
117
Old-Fashioned Type Specimens in the Robinson-Pforzheimer
Collection , The New York Public Library
8
118
Pacella , ITC Licensed
8
119
Photo-Lettering Number Two , Photo-Lettering
Inc.
8
120
Photocomposition Textface Directory, Artron ,
Photo-Lettering Inc.
8
121
Phototype , Phototype
8
122
Pop Type , Photo-Lettering Inc.
10
123
Precision Type, Font Sampler 2.1 , Precision
Type
8
124
Psychedelitypes , Photo-Lettering Inc.
8
125
Sans Serifs Text/Miscellaneous , Wrightson
Typographers
8
126
Selected Specimen Book Pages, Vol. I , Lanston
Monotype Machine Company
8
127
Selected Specimen Book Pages, Vol. II , Lanston
Monotype Machine Company
8
128
Selected Specimen Book Pages, Vol. III , Lanston
Monotype Machine Company
8
129
Serif Gothic (2) , ITC Licensed
8
130
Serif Text , Wrightson Typographers
10
131
Sherbow’s Type Charts, Vol. I , Benjamin
Sherbow
10
132
Sherbow’s Type Charts, Vol. II , Benjamin
Sherbow
10
134
Sherbow’s Type Charts, Vol. III ,
Benjamin Sherbow
10
135
Sherbow’s Type Charts, Vol. IV , Benjamin
Sherbow
8
136
Slimbach , ITC Licensed
8
137
Solotype Antiques , Solotype Advertising
Typography
8
138
Souvenir (2) , ITC Licensed
11
139
Specimen pages , Adcraft Typographers,
Inc.
8
140
Specimen pages , Vgc Alphabets
8
141
Stempel Folio Series , Eltra Corporation
8
142
Style Finder , FontShop
8
143
Supplement for Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual
of Styles , Photo-Lettering Incorporated
8
144
Supplement to the Best Font Kit in the World ,
T-26 Digital Type Foundry
8
145
Supplement to Digital Type Foundry’s Font Kits ,
T-26 Digital Type Foundry
8
146
ITC Symbol , ITC Licensed
8
147
T-26 , T-26
8
148
Tekton , Adobe
9
149
Tiepolo , ITC Licensed
9
150
Tiffany (2) , ITC Licensed
9
151
Tiffany with Italic , ITC Licensed
9
152
Trajan , Adobe
9
153
The Type Book , Compugraphic
9
154
Type Comparison Book , Frank Merriman
9
155
Type Manual , Monsen
9
156
Typeface Collection , (pages torn out of larger
publication)
9
157
TypeReference , Image Club Graphics
9
158
Typography , Meriden-Stinehour
9
159
Ubersicht/Synopsis/Synoptique , Berthold Types
9
160
Utopia , Adobe
9
161
(various) , McLean Brothers Ltd.
9
162
(various specimens) , Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall,
Inc.
9
163
Veljovic , ITC Licensed
9
164
Weidemann , ITC Licensed
9
165
Zapf Book (2) , ITC Licensed
9
166
Zapf International (2) , ITC Licensed