The Type Archive holds the National Typefounding Collection, purchased with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund; broadly comprising; 1. the typefounding materials of the Sheffield typefounders, Stephenson Blake, a collection dating from 16th century London typefounders to their 20th century counterparts; 2. the hot-metal archive and plant of the Monotype Corporation, operating from Salfords in Surrey from 1897, and in London's Lambeth from 1992 to date; and 3. the Woodletter pattern collection and plant of Robert DeLittle in York from 1888, and in Lambeth from 1996.
The Type Archive holds the National Typefounding Collection, purchased with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund; broadly comprising 1. the typefounding materials of the Sheffield typefounders, Stephenson Blake; 2. the hot-metal archive and plant of the Monotype Corporation; and 3. the Woodletter pattern collection and plant of Robert DeLittle.
The Type Archive is developing the site to provide a new Vault for the metal collections, which will enable the public to engage with the artefacts in a secure glass environment, with mezzanine space provided in the vault for approved research projects.
The Archive owns a two-colour, 1906, The Elliott Wharfedale letterpress machine. Provision of a new workshop, the Wharfedale Press Building, with public viewing space, is making progress.
Public amenities of refreshment, a book & artefacts shop and toilets are underway.
to build stronger London event links with the Science Museum, Railway Museum (York), British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Library, Benjamin Franklin Museum, Dr Johnson Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Design Council, Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering Council, Insitution of Engineering, Royal Society of Mechanical Engineering, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Kings College, Imperial War Museum, Royal College of Art, Oxford University Press, Faber & Faber, Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley, Pearson Books, Bethnall Green Museum, Royal Society of Arts, and our close Lambeth neighbours, the South Bank complex and the Millennium Wheel.
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