Posted 4 years ago
AnythingOb…
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This roughly 21" x 25" framed poster depicts lots of Railroad logos, as its title line at the bottom makes clear. Cursory googling hasn't been a whole lot of help in finding out who Bundscho is/was, but does suggest this might have been assembled more for the various fonts used in the logos, vs. anything actually RxR inspired. I don't really care all that much, I enjoy it for the RxR aspect regardless. ;-) :-) :-)
Cool. I recently bought a large lot of similar metal signs for our etsy store. They were very popular and I think there is only 1 lot of signs left.
AnythingObscure, You were on the right track about Bundscho being a typographer:
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J. M. Bundscho, Advertising Typographers & Design, was a large trade typesetting company in Chicago. Rick vonHolt sent me these pictures of Bundscho which were taken in 1928.
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There are some pretty cool pictures taken of the building exterior and interior:
http://www.phillipdriscoll.com/bundscho.html
I tried to find a modern Google Streetview of the building, and had a devil of a time. Various online records show Bundscho at 58 East Washington Street, Chicago, IL, and that precise address no longer exists.
The building in between the beautiful old Beaux Arts library building (78 East Washington) and the old Marshall Fields building (111 North State Street) should be it, and it has an old address of 50 East Washington Street, but a modern one of 111 North Wabash.
It's not just that the ground and the next two upper floors look so different, it's that the window pattern on subsequent floors don't really match the photo at that phillipdriscoll dot com site.
Found some modern sites that reference it:
https://www.garland111.com/the-building-1
https://www.emporis.com/buildings/116748/garland-building-chicago-il-usa
However, this hathitrust dot org copy of an old Bundscho catalog says that Bundscho was in the Garland building just across from Marshall Field on the corner of Wabash (there are some cool pictures in this book, too):
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=8
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=14
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=16
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=18
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=20
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=22
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=24
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087327174&view=2up&seq=26