Cutting Style
Photograph

Basil C. Levine

Maker
American, 1928–2011

Cutting Style

ca. 1975
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (30.2 × 25.1 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0046
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: CUTTING STYLE -- Terra Trapp, and engraving machine operator at Allied Corporation's \ Bunker Ramo Division, Trumbull, Conn., is making keytops for an automated banking \ system in Istanbul. She is guiding siz spindle cutters (upper right) by tracing a \ template with a stylus. This cuts identical characters in six plastic keytops simul- \ taneously. While most keyboards have standard characters already molded in, as exempli- \ fied bt the keyboard in the foreground, it's the non-standard keys that require the \ use of this multi-spindle engraver. \ -0- \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: ALLIED CORPORATION \ Slug: CUTTING STYLE \ Neg. No.: alc 29-R3-34 \ 31583
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
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