Make Beautiful Pictures of Your Words with Mitten's Sculptured Alphabets

Make Beautiful Pictures of Your Words with Mitten's Sculptured Alphabets
Make Beautiful Pictures of Your Words with Mitten's Sculptured Alphabets
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Make Beautiful Pictures of Your Words with Mitten's Sculptured Alphabets
Date1940s–1950s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (19.6 × 24.2 cm)
 Sheet: 8 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.8 × 25.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Judy Nyquist
Object number2020.337
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRandy Regier; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink, recto, lower right: OP 415
Inscribed in black ink, verso, upper right: OP 415 [sideways]

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Beautiful walnut cabinet containing large stocks of Mitten's Letters. Used by theatres, stores, schools, museums, etc.
Beautiful walnut cabinet containing large stocks of Mitten's Letters. Used by theatres, stores, schools, museums, etc.
1948
Gelatin silver print
2020.331
Will the Senator from Massachusetts This, to Make His Words Good?
Thomas Nast
Will the Senator from Massachusetts This, to Make His Words Good?
August 17, 1872
Wood engraving on newsprint
89.577.1
The Perfect Combination Peg-Board and Mittens Letters, Always Use Mittens Letters with Peg-Board
The Perfect Combination Peg-Board and Mittens Letters, Always Use Mittens Letters with Peg-Board
1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.339
Image non disponible pour ... words disappear. They are condemned
Peter d'Agostino
... words disappear. They are condemned
no date
Gelatin silver print
87.300.3
Installation of Mitten’s Display Letters in Bretano’s new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 3” Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.
Julius Shulman
Installation of Mitten’s Display Letters in Bretano’s new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 3” Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.
1949
Gelatin silver print
2020.329
Installation of Mitten's Display Letters in Bretano's new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., 3" Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.
Julius Shulman
Installation of Mitten's Display Letters in Bretano's new modern store located on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., 3" Tempar Sandback Letters cemented to ledge facing.
1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.328
[Mitten's Letters in a Drawer]
[Mitten's Letters in a Drawer]
1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.336
New Arrivals Mitten's
New Arrivals Mitten's
1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.341
Franklin Simon store, Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. use Mitten’s Display Letters to tell their story in a dignified presentation. 42” Kabel Condensed Track Letters
Franklin Simon store, Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. use Mitten’s Display Letters to tell their story in a dignified presentation. 42” Kabel Condensed Track Letters
1949
Gelatin silver print
2020.334
A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
Simon Norfolk
A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.14
Yucca, Desert, Words
Todd Walker
Yucca, Desert, Words
1983
Offset lithograph
2002.80
Cross Words
Therman Statom
Cross Words
1994
Glass, pencil, and paint
2010.2145.6