#Lathan A. Crandall

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Typography Tuesday

Last week, as part of a gift, we received a 1914 copy of Days in the Open by American clergyman and angler Lathan A. Crandall with decorations by the English-born American illustrator Louis Rhead, published in New York and Chicago by the Christian publishing firm Fleming H. Revell Company. We were taken not only by Rhead’s Art Nouveau decorations and illustrations for this volume, but also by how he turned ordinary chapter-opening initial letters into Art Nouveau historiated initials through the use of five different cuts combined with the letters. 

Louis Rhead was a prolific designer and illustrator who came from a family of prominent English potters and artists. He was initially trained in art by his father and then in Paris by the neoclassical French artist Gustave Boulanger. When he emigrated to the US at the age of 24, however, he became deeply influenced by the work of Swiss Art Nouveau decorative artist Eugène Grasset. In America, Rhead also became an avid angler, and much of his work after 1900 often involved angling art, as in this publication. Rhead even died in the pursuit of his avocation, dying of a heart attack soon after hooking and then struggling to remove a 30-pound turtle that had been devastating his trout ponds. Now, that’s devotion!

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Happy 104th anniversary, Maud and Delos! (Betsy and Joe)

With thanks to Julie S for finding this write up:

Maud Palmer Hart Wedded to Lieut. Delos W. Lovelace

The marriage of Miss Maud Palmer Hart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hart, 905 West Twenty-fifth street, and Lieut. Delos Wheeler Lovelace was solemnized yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents. The Rev. Lathan A. Crandall, pastor of Trinity Baptist church, read the service in the presence of the immediate family. The vows were spoken before an alter of yellow chrysanthemums and palms arranged at one end of the living room. Killarney roses were used in the dining room.

Mrs. Eugene S. Bibb was her sister’s matron of honor. Her gown was of grey panne velvet trimmed with rose beading and she wore a corsage bouquet of violets and roses. Captain Bibb attended Lieutenant Lovelace as best man.

The bride wore a gown of white taffeta and tulle. The skirt was made of bouffant effect and the bodice was cut décolleté and finished with long tulle sleeves. The tulle veil was held in place with a wreath of orange blossoms. Her bouquet was a shower of pale pink roses and forget-me-nots.

Lieutenant Lovelace is on leave until Monday when he will return to Camp Dodge, where he and his bride will be at home after December 15.

Out of town guests at the wedding include Miss Marjorie Gerlach of Mankato, Miss Florence Macbeth of New York and Mr. Edwin Hart, a cousin of the bride, who is at the Great Lakes naval training station.

Lieutenant and Mrs. Lovelace both attended the University of Minnesota and Mis. Lovelace is a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

—From the Minneapolis Morning Tribune: Friday, November 30, 1917