While we’re plowing through piles of bills, receipts and credit cards, let’s have a look at this invoice for my great grandfather’s funeral expenses. Today the Baxter Funeral Home is part of a chain, but in 1963 it was still being run by Eugene Baxter. Why did they choose Baxter when my great grandfather lived in Scotia (in one of the older buildings in the village, still standing) at the time? No clue.
The font of the typewriter used to type up this invoice was quite unusual, by the way. There were very few typewriter fonts back then (it wasn’t until the IBM Selectric came along with its ball head that changing fonts became practical on a typewriter), and most of them were some variation on a standard oldstyle (meaning evenly weighted) serif.
