Druggists' and dispensers' practial show card instructor ..
A lettering manual by William Alexander Thompson, self-published in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1914 to teach druggists and store clerks to paint their own advertising show cards. The plates give full alphabets and numerals \u2014 shaded Roman capitals, condensed serif caps, brush-drawn italic script, and lowercase sets ruled with guidelines \u2014 usable as complete display faces or stroke-by-stroke construction guides.
