|a Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) |x History. |a Special collections |x Sacramento Public Library. |a Chinese Americans |z California |z San Francisco |x History. |a Surgeons general (Military personnel) |v Biography.
|a Surgeons |z California |z San Francisco |v Biography. |a Rats as carriers of disease |z California |z San Francisco |x History. |a Plague |z California |z San Francisco |x History |y 20th century. |a Includes bibliographical references (p. He designed and illustrated many books, and was the creator of a considerable list of individual prints-wood engravings, line engravings on copper, and aquatints"-Colophon. He set up his own shop, devoted to wood engraving and printing, in New York in 1913, after a varied career working as a wood engraver, in photoengraving and banknote-printing plants, and as an art director and freelance artist. Rudolph Ruzicka was born in Bohemia and came to America in 1894.
It is this trait that accounts for the trim grace and vigor, the spirited design, and sensitive balance of this original typeface. In its structure, Fairfield displays the sober and sane qualities of the master craftsman whose talent has long been dedicated to clarity. |a "This book was set in Fairfield, the first typeface from the hand of the distinguished American artist and engraver Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978). of plates : |b ill., facsims., map, ports. |a The Barbary plague : |b the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco / |c Marilyn Chase.
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