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Word: fraktur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonists were barely ashore before they began casting about for ways to make their new homes attractive. In Puritan New England, crude portraits were being limned by anonymous painters as early as 1641; in Pennsylvania, settlers from the Palatinate were soon decorating birth certificates and family records with elaborate Fraktur flowers and birds, a practice derived from Gothic manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Visions of Innocence | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

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