Examines the history of the written and printed word and the relationship of words and images from two thousand B.C. to the mid-twentieth century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images for each month of the year 1999 are colored photographs of graffeti on walls. Halby writes in his essay that the birth of graffiti can be traced to the fifties in New York when young Puerto Rican immigrants protested and drew attention to their desolate condition by spray painting the windows on subway cars. They worked with hectic speed and used bizarre interlocking angular or round letters and signs that came from the world of comics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each month of this calendar is represented by a calligraphic stamp print and an enlarged reproduction of the actual stamp in different colors than the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This calendar reproduces 20 Ex Libris designs from the late 18th and early 19th century. The plates were borrowed mainly from the collection of the Gutenberg-Museum in Maintz and include design styles from Art Nouveau and Expressionist periods as well as embellished calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.