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Zuiderbad Amsterdam swimming certificate

Photo(s) by “ed”. Imported from Flickr on Feb 22, 2017. Artwork published in
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    Zuiderbad Amsterdam swimming certificate
    Source: https://www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by ed and tagged with “gnom”. License: All Rights Reserved.

    My mother’s swimming certificate from Dec 1942. It really helps: a month later she was married! Zuiderbad then was the largest covered swimming school in the world.

    The typeface is Gnom (Schelter & Giesecke, 1914), with its original extrawide ‘M’.

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    2 Comments on “Zuiderbad Amsterdam swimming certificate”

    1. Florian Hardwig says:
      Feb 28th, 2017  3:19 pm

      The border elements are from Florentiner Ornamente, a series that accompanied Forentiner Mediaeval (Bauer, 1907).

    2. Florian Hardwig says:
      Sep 7th, 2019  3:11 pm

      Amsterdam Typography has shared a photo of the lettering on the facade of the Zuiderbad:

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