Brandreth Columbian ABC for the little ones
An 1893 alphabet book for children, published on Staten Island, that pairs each letter with a patent-medicine advertisement and a scene tied to Columbus and the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. Its pictures are small, framed chromolithographic panels with bold red initial letters, flat colour and tidy captions, offering a designer a compact model for combining display lettering with narrative vignettes and period advertising typography.
