Franklin: America’s “Lost State” by Noel B. Gerson

The dimensional caps of Sans Serif Shaded are contrasted with Commercial Script for the jacket of a book about the State of Franklin, published in 1968 by Crowell-Collier Press in their “America in the making” series. Sans Seif Shaded is used with mirrored AKA sign painters’ quotes. From the book:

Here is the fascinating account of how the “lost state” of Franklin was formed – its military and diplomatic attempts to gain independence, its heroes and villains, the remarkable achievements of its eleven-year history – and the events that led to Franklin’s admission to the Union as a part of Tennessee.

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