[a billhead from Joh. Enschedé en Zonen] productionoriginals Klaus Schmidt

Klaus Schmidt

and Union Carbide

Open Julie Safirstein’s work and enter a poetic garden full of colors both bright and pastel

written fifty years later

Loaded with useful information and good stories about unknowable things

[a billhead from Joh. Enschedé en Zonen] productionoriginals Klaus SchmidtIts May 6, 1936. Two things happened: The Hindenburg left for the US (where things would not go well) and Ensched billed the publisher Brill for a bunch of type. We dont know what type they were buying, but we look forward to someone telling us. Note, though, that they were selling type by the kilogram. Were out of practice, but we seem to recall that 4 square inches of type weighs 1 pound. So, from the looks of it, they were buying very small