The Christmas Album (Charles Hansen Educational Music & Books)
A Christmas tree made from rectangles of different sizes and proportions printed in three colors, and a shaded and decorated slab with bifurcated serifs, on the covers of a paperback series with sheet music:
A collection of wonderful songs, stories, and pictures about joyous Christmas Season, including all the favorites, such as Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree, The First Noel, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Silver Bells, Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, and many, many more.
Shown here are the versions for Piano/Vocal and for All Organ. Authored by Doris Millspaugh with contributions by Neal Levin and edited by Roger Bobley, the books were published in 1973 in the Educational division of Charles Hansen Music & Books.
The festive typeface originated as Ornamented No. 43 at the Conner foundry and was patented in 1881. It was recut in the 20th century by Typefounders of Phoenix/Los Angeles Type Founders who gave it a catchier name, Tangier. By the early 1970s, Tangier had been adopted for phototypesetting both by Photo-Lettering and VGC. In 2015, Alan Jay Prescott digitized it under the name Tanglewood PDS, but it’s not clear to me if his revival has been released. You can always order a font of 30pt foundry type from Skyline Type Foundry.
“MORE SWIRLS per pound” – Tangier as shown in Photo-Lettering’s One Line catalog (1971)
