JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
There’s something about a strong design in brilliant red:
This striking work is the cover for a circular produced by the National Fire Protection Association in 1929. It is a simple folded sheet, with some basic data about joining the association, and someone did a very good job of creating artwork for the front cover of this simple publication.
Here are some other small designs for pamphlet covers that I’ve found, and scanned, and cleaned up, and made into 14×19 posters, which look pretty good and which are also crazily color-hungry:
And just at the last moment, another found design in red:
This is the cover of a small pamphlet by W. Howard Grady, published in Kansas City, in 1925. From what I can tell in a quick read there seems to be no overriding approach to the New America outside of faith, freedom, and “buy American”.