Photo Stencil LLC history

In 1887, Charles Nelson Jones, a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, got a patent for a stencil printer that took the technology one step further than Gestetner's Cyclostyle.

Velvetone did its first screen printing jobs starting in 1912, and for decades it was among the leading graphic screen printing firms in America.

He first encountered the screen printing process in San Francisco in 1913 as an employee in a pennant printing factory.

Selectasine was founded in 1915 and Vitachrome followed one year later.

Steinman lived in Oakland until at least 1923.

Starting in 1925, the licensees were periodically updated on the latest developments in the process through bulletins ("Service Features").

In 1927, the screen printing pioneer Edward Owens described the situation:

In 1936 even Harpers Bazaar used a stencil for its logo.

Garner died in 1966 in San Mateo, and Brant one year later in Oakland.

Submission thanks to: TXMX, Josiah, Brooklyn Street Art, Mission Local, and Jeremy NovyVinyl backup by: Pink Floyd, Animal Collective, and Tom WaitsPhoto: color snap of Bear and Bob Thomas' original Grateful Dead logo stencil (1970, WI)

He started by painting rats on the streets of Paris in 1981, he was influenced by graffiti in New York, but adapted it to suit his purposes in Europe.

The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie (2005, The University of Chicago Press). (Photo shows Paleolithic hand stencils from El Castillo, Spain)