Shopping fonts must’ve been an awesome experience in the 1880′s. Check out these sexeh specimens by Cincinnati Type Foundry and Shniedewend & Lee Company. Examples from the book Type. from Taschen.
Also, notice the prices. Does anyone know what $5.35 is compared to today’s standards?
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Momzombie
According to http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/, $5.35 is currently worth:
$124.00 using the Consumer Price Index
$119.00 using the GDP deflator
$665.00 using the unskilled wage
$1,080.00 using the nominal GDP per capita
$5,500.00 using the relative share of GDP
Mar 27th, 2010
Gjermund
Thanks a bunch! I’m guessing(hoping) the bottom two is the conversions closest to today’s prices :)
Apr 10th, 2010
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