Oriental Meditation

Edited by Harold Whalen

Peter Pauper Press, 1976

Lettering and illustrations

Child of the Northern Spring

Persia Woolley

Inner Circle, 1987

Map

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Intertextuality

Intertextuality: New Perspectives in Criticism

Credit

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AIGA Award Certificate

Bookbinding & Book Production, March 1947

... The award was hand-lettered by Jean Yee Wong on a sheet of Invictus paper, imported from England, and supplied by Stevens-Nelson Paper Co. ...

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Jeanyee Wong’s Marriage License

On October 7, 1946, Jeanyee Wong and Waie Lew 

applied for a marriage license in Manhattan. They 

married the following day at the Municipal Building.

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Life with Letters—as They Turned Photogenic

Edward Rondthaler

Hastings House, 1981

Page 76: 1951

The there was a lull, broken a few years by an unprecedented renaissance in calligraphy. This brilliant renaissance, encouraged by professionals such as Paul Standard, Jaenyee Wong [sic], Ismar David, Paul Freeman, Guillermo Rodriguez-Benitez, Bob Boyajian, Sandi Governali and others, reached far down into grass roots America. It reached down even to the Croton high school where I, caught at last by the calligraphic bug, took a night course in company with other enthusiasts of all ages.

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The Cook’s Blessings

Demetria Taylor

Random House, 1965

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