One of a series of sketches for a monogram for Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Yearly Archives: 2010
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WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Monumental lettering on the Weizmann Institue of Science. Possibly 1949, when it was dedicated. The photo was taken in the fifties.
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GEYER HOLIDAY CARD 1973
Holiday card for Geyer Studio, with cut out window, where the name of the recipient would have been written by one of the studio calligraphers. 1973.
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GEYER STUDIO HOLIDAY CARD 1975-76
Holiday card for Geyer Studio. Outside is the scribe signet that Ismar designed for the studio. Inside, a cartoon, not drawn by Ismar, showing him and the employees of the studio in 1976.
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SEASONS OF JOY
Apparently a painted sketch or comprehensive for a Hebrew language Greeting card. Seasons of joy. Holidays and times for celebrating.
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KIBBUTZ YAHEL
Front of a tri-fold brochure for the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, to raise funds for the Kibbutz Yahel Center for Education and Culture.
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CHARLOTTE STERN
Charlotte Stern, one of Ismar’s oldest friends in Jerusalem and an earlier arrival from Germany than he was. She opened Charlotte’s Gifts on Storrs Street in 1938. According to Frommer’s it is the oldest gift shop in West Jerusalem and it is still there. Photo of a photo, taken by Jeff Finger.
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PALESTINE BOOK
Palestine Book. The cover of a magazine for the Jewish Palestine Pavillion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. From a photostat.
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ALL THINGS ARE READY
Shakespeare quote for a calendar page. All things are ready if our minds be so. From the Life of King Henry the Fifth
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LORE LILIEN
Book and box for Lore Lilien. Goldsmith Lore Lilien was the wife of printer and printing historian Otto Lilien. The pair were close friends of Ismar, who designed this book with a case with metal clasp for her. Unfortunately this a poor photocopy of a photograph.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
Certificate of Service, one of several certificates done for the United American Hebrew Congregations in 1964.
