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- [197--2009?]
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of numerous large-sized prints created by Rimmer, including portraits and still life.
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of numerous large-sized prints created by Rimmer, including portraits and still life.
Rimmer, Jim
Promotional and advertisement material
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of material related to the promotion and advertisement of Rimmer’s typographic and graphic design work. Records include sample linocut prints, typeface samples, illustration proof-sheets, portfolios, and commercial advertisements.
Rimmer, Jim
The collection reflects Rimmer’s career as a designer, illustrator, printer, and publisher, and his involvement with members of the printing community and various associations. Records document Rimmer’s graphic design, typeface design and printing...
Rimmer, Jim
Miscellaneous correspondence #2
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of miscellaneous incoming correspondence, including invoices, comments concerning Rimmer’s work, photocopied articles, letters of thanks, postcards, and information regarding the Alcuin Society’s Wayzgoose.
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of a personal and business nature between Rimmer and various members of the printing community, including Paul Duensing, Jules Remedios Faye, Richard L. Hopkins, Richard Kegler, Robert R. Rei...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of records related to specific projects and topics, including Rimmer’s participation in the design of the Burgess Italic typeface and the debate concerning its origins. Other records include photographs relating to printing in Vanc...
Rimmer, Jim
Rimmer – Newsletters, announcements, etc.
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of various items, including American Typecasting Fellowship, (A.T.F.) reports and membership lists, copies of “The Printer”, sketches, photocopied articles, Alcuin Society correspondence, type specimens and newsletters of the Typocho...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of sample, draft and completed commercial work produced by Rimmer as a free-lance designer employed by various companies, organizations and individuals. Records include items completed by Rimmer for Colophon Books, including Alison...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of incoming correspondence from Paul Duensing, of Michigan, a sort of mentor to Rimmer. Records include postcards and letters reflecting their friendship and working relationship, comments concerning each others’ work, and discussion...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of records documenting Rimmer’s design of the Cartier lowercase typeface, inspired by Carl Dair’s Cartier typeface designed for Canada’s centennial in 1967. Records include prints and proofs of the design at various stages of develop...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of numerous prints and illustrations created by Rimmer as art pieces, as well as linocut blocks, woodcut blocks and stencils created by Rimmer to produce prints. Includes images of animals, people, still life, Frederic W. Goudy and...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of material related to Rimmer’s design and production of typefaces for both the Rimmer Type Foundry and the Lanston Type Company. Records include preliminary sketches, drawings in ink and pencil, transparencies, samples, digital pr...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of a mounted print of a typeface designed by Rimmer.
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of various photographs documenting Rimmer’s life and work. Photographs show images of Rimmer’s band, the Apex Jazz Band, a Thompson Caster, and various images of the process of type cutting. Also included are photocopied photographs ...
Rimmer, Jim
Second attempt at Tom S[awyer]
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of Rimmer’s second attempt to print The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and records illustrating the creation of a book discussing Rimmer’s work. Records include 12 pages of galley proofs set in 18 point Cloister, mock-ups of both texts, wi...
Rimmer, Jim
Miscellaneous correspondence #1
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of miscellaneous incoming correspondence, including comments from admirers of Rimmer’s work, letters of thanks for tours and talks, information about printing equipment and material, and comments on articles written by Rimmer.
Rimmer, Jim
Pie Tree Press publications and related material
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
Series consists of material related to publications issued by Pie Tree Press, including books, prints, and broadsides. Includes material relating to Rimmer’s work on an abandoned book entitled “Fred Goudy, Type Designer,” and the development and p...
Rimmer, Jim
“Fred Goudy, Type Designer” pages
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of two unfolded press sheet pages of “Fred Goudy, Type designer”; records are of the front page, and pages 10 and 12. One copy of “Fred Goudy, type designer.”
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of galleys of “Fred Goudy, typesetter?” written by Jim Rimmer as the first book attempted by Pie Tree Press. Records show the mock-up of the proposed book, which was never completed. Includes an introduction, text, and prints, with h...
Rimmer, Jim
Mockup of “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of records documenting the planned layout of “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”. Records include the text pasted to mock-up pages, showing how the finished book would appear. Includes hand-written notes, edits and a chronology of Goudy’s work.
Rimmer, Jim
Dummy of “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of a dummy of “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”. Records include printed text, page numbers, illustrations and prints, as well as edits by Rimmer.
Rimmer, Jim
Press sheets of “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of numerous folded press sheets created in 1979 for “Fred Goudy, Type Designer”, as well as prints and mockup notes. File also contains a letter written by Rimmer explaining the process of this project and the reason for the project’...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of records related to Rimmer’s design of three typefaces, including Juliana Old Style, named after his daughter who passed away, and two incomplete types. Records include mounted ink drawings and pencil sketches.
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of records documenting Rimmer’s trial setting of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 18-point Juliana Old Style type. Records include sample pages of text and accompanying linocut illustration prints. File also includes original sketch o...
Rimmer, Jim
Rimmer - Will Rueter correspondence
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of incoming correspondence from Will Rueter, a Toronto-area printer. Records include letters and postcards commenting on each others’ work, samples, and records related to an article written by Rueter about Rimmer’s work for “DA” [th...
Rimmer, Jim
Rimmer – Envelopes & business cards
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of incoming correspondence, envelopes and business cards retained for their contact information. File also includes a slide photograph of a casting machine.
Rimmer, Jim
Early Printers in the City of Venice
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File contains five broadsides of “Early Printers in the City of Venice”, which Rimmer reset from an original text page by Bruce Rogers. The piece showcases Goudy’s Italian Oldstyle in two font sizes. The broadsides were printed by Rimmer for membe...
Rimmer, Jim
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of a copy of “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”, a Christmas keepsake printed by Rimmer. Text is based on a letter to the New York Sun in 1897 from 8 year old Virginia O’Hanlon, and the response by editor Francis Church. The fil...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of incoming correspondence from Richard L. Hopkins of Hill & Dale Private Press and Type foundry, West Virginia. Records include postcards and letters concerning the American Typecasting Fellowship conferences and newsletters, te...
Rimmer, Jim
Part of Jim Rimmer collection
File consists of mounted ink drawings of Rimmer’s Nephi Mediaeval typeface, named after his father, in small caps. Records also include a printing of the first trial cast, dated from May 1981.
Rimmer, Jim