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  APHA Conference 2000 Keepsake

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For APHA's  25th Conference in Rochester, N.Y., Dennis Y. Ichiyama, artist-in-residence at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, printed a limited edition broadside with Drew T. Clemens. Mr. Ichiyama was artist-in-residence at the Museum from mid-February until mid-August 2000. 

This keepsake was printed at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in an edition of one hundred. It was presented to conferees of the American Printing History Association, Rochester, New York, 20th October 2000. 

This digital keepsake is presented here with the kind permission of Dennis Y. Ichiyama. APHA wishes to express its thanks to Mr. Ichiyama, both for this beautiful tribute and for his generosity in allowing us to make the keepsake available online.

Dennis Y. Ichiyama is a professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Drew T. Clemens is a third year Visual Communications Design major in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University. Mr. Ichiyama added about the keepsake, "[t]he red mark next to my name is my family seal that is affixed to all printed works that I create. The characters are done in a stylized seal design and represent my last name."

The keepsake was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Prints from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 20 - November 26, 2000. Major support for the exhibition and keepsake came from Mohawk Paper Mills, Wausau Paper Co., and Neenah Paper. Additional support came from the Two Rivers Historical Society, Mr. Jim Van Lanen, Sr., and Purdue University.

The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. Established in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in 1999, it contains over one million pieces of wood type and patterns, original machinery used to prepare and cut wood type, and displays on the Hamilton Wood Type Company and its products. Operated by the Two Rivers Historical Society, the museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of James Edward Hamilton, one of America's preeminent wood type designers and producers. The museum houses the world's largest display wall of wood type and some of the world's largest pieces of wood type.

• More information about APHA's 25th Conference, On the Digital Brink, October 2000.
• The APHA Newsletter Winter 2000 (no. 142) contains summaries of papers.
• Photographs from the Conference.
• Other past keepsakes.

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