American Type Founders (ATF) was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States. ATF was the dominant American manufacturer of metal type from its creation in 1892 until at least the 1940s; it continued to be influential into the 1960s.
Read more about American Type Founders: Type Founding Before ATF, Consolidation and Early Years, Letterpress Manufacturing, Depression and Bankruptcy, Offset Presses, War Work and Postwar Direction, Photocomposition, Duplicators, Divestiture of The Foundry, ATF-Davidson and Successor Corporations
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