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More Folk Typography

Mar 21, 2007

I found this hand-painted title on a colleague’s 1919 panoramic photo of the Burk-Waggoner oil deposit. The lettering reminds me of the title block I posted a while back from about the same time. Evidently, this was a golden age of freestyle display lettering by photographers and engineers.

My apologies for the poor image quality. My phone was the only camera at hand.