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Henry Lewis Bullen

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Bullen experienced calamity in 1905, when he left to work at the United Printing Machinery Company. He rapidly fell out with his employer and was demoted, and then disappeared with $ 2750 of company money, being arrested by Pinkerton detectives with a ticket to Honolulu. He was sentenced to two years
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Bullen also lectured on graphic arts, wrote about typography, and curated exhibitions on typography. Contemporary amateur historian of printing David M. Macmillan however has expressed concern that his writing was often inaccurate: "I have come to the point where I find it impossible to rely upon
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to acquire the library as he felt that the library housed at the University would provide the greatest research value to the public. The ATF Library was moved to Columbia University in 1936 and opened to the public in 1939. The University officially purchased the collection in 1941.
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Bullen became ATF's advertising manager and informal corporate historian, he was responsible for producing type specimen books, machinery and material catalogs and pamphlets. He also successfully marketed the concept of
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in prison (reduced from ten as a first offence). Bullen's friend Herbert Bingham suggested that he had experienced a breakdown due to overwork. Robert Nelson of ATF took pity on him and he returned to ATF in 1908.
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to American-Scotch parentage. He left school at 14 to become a printers apprentice and began writing articles for trade publications. In 1875, he immigrated to the United States. He lived for ten years in
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as assistant librarian. He later retired that year, and traveled to Europe to acquire rare books for the library. After ATF declared bankruptcy in 1933, Bullen began talks with
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In 1891, Bullen moved to New York City to work as the advertising manager for Hamilton Manufacturing Company, a printers supplier, who later became part of
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later in life said he had suppressed suspicions that the "Garamond" type his company was reviving was not really the work of sixteenth-century engraver
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in the following century. In 1911, he helped to found the Printers Apprentices of New York, which became a part of the
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At ATF, Bullen began expanding his personal collection that would become the foundation for the ATF Library in 1908 in
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anything that he said which does not have external corroboration."
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where he worked as a printer, later becoming the editor of
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Emigrants from colonial Australia to the United States
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World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services
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Index


printer
typographic
archivist
Ballarat
Australia
Boston
New York City
The American Type Founders' Company
type families
Garamond
Caslon
Cloister
Bodoni
The Inland Printer
Jersey City
Theodore Low De Vinne
Beatrice Warde
Columbia University
Beatrice Warde
Claude Garamond
Jean Jannon
New York School of Printing
AIGA Medal
Elmhurst
Queens



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