Small Industrial Landscapes: Business Letterheads as Cultural Heritage

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56039/rgn12a03

Keywords:

industrial heritage, landscapes, business letterhead, iconography

Abstract

Letterheads are the abstraction of the character of a company, whether it is manufacturing or services, whose function is to project its identity. The design of the letterhead generally expresses the greatness of the company and its manufacturing facilities, with the aim of showing its category, importance and position in the market. Many of these letterheads, in addition to including in them the name of the company and the owner, plus its location, depicted the companies’ buildings and the environment in which they were located, this way creating small industrial landscapes. In the Historical Archive of the Metepec Industrial Museum, thousands of copies of issued and received letters, between 1918 and 1967, are stored in the documentary collection of the Compañía Industrial de Atlixco S.A. For this paper, a selection of letters with business letterheads that show industrial landscapes has been made, to generate a corpus of images with the aim of making an iconographic reading, as well as putting them in value as an important and interesting industrial graphic heritage.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Published

2019-08-01

How to Cite

Small Industrial Landscapes: Business Letterheads as Cultural Heritage. (2019). Gremium, 6(12), 28-47. https://doi.org/10.56039/rgn12a03

Similar Articles

21-30 of 144

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.