Mergenthaler Linotype Company
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Name (Latin)
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Field of activity
Linotype
Type and type-founding
Biographical or Historical Data
Incorporated 12/16/1895 in New York as successor to Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New Jersey [no publications in LC], incorporated 11/1891
The N.J. firm was the successor of companies, largely operating experimentally, for a number of years
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Sources of Information
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014(Incorporated 12/16/1895 in New York as successor to Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New Jersey [no publications in LC], incorporated 11/1891; The N.J. firm was the successor of companies, largely operating experimentally, for a number of years)
- Historical note (In December 1895, the company reincorporated as the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York, and assumed all the properties and franchises of the previous Mergenthaler Company. Despite its shared name, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company emerged as a distinct corporate entity from inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler ( (Mergenthaler Linotype Company records finding aid, viewed March 19, 2019:) )
- Robert Granjon, 1931:t.p. (Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, N.Y.)