1888: book-keeper for credit and mortgage companies.
1889: moves to Chicago, works in real estate.
1892: launches "Modern Advertising"
magazine which issues only a few numbers.
1895: opens a print workshop in Chicago
and prints the "American Chap-Book".
1897: designs his first type, Camelot Old Style.
Produces typographical designs
for various publishing houses and companies.
1903: founds the Village Press.
The first publication is an essay by William Morris.
1904: his publications are awarded
prizes at the world exhibition in St. Louis.
1908: the Village Press is destroyed by fire.
1909–24: the Press is reopened and run
under Goudy’s management in Forest Hills.
1914: signs a contract with the American Type Founders
Company governing the manufacture and use of his typefaces.
1916: sells 8 new typefaces to the Caslon type foundry in London.
Numerous companies commission
Goudy to design exclusive typefaces for them.
1920–40: art consultant to the Lanston Monotype Co.
1924: he and his publishing house move to Marlborough-on-Hudson.
1925: opens his own type foundry.
1939: the workshop for type design, type
cutting, type foundry, typesetting, printing
and bookbinding are destroyed by fire.
1940: teaching post for calligraphy at the University of Syracuse.
1947: the Goudyana exhibition is opened in Goudy’s
presence at the Library of Congress in Washington.
Goudy designed a total of 116 fonts and published 59 literary works.
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