The American Printing History Association is pleased to introduce members who have agreed to serve as officers and Trustees on the APHA board. This dynamic group of talented people will grow our organization and keep APHA thriving. We’re excited they are joining us.
APHA is accepting applications for the 2024 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. This award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms. [Read more]
Registration for APHA’s 48th annual conference “The Printed Weird: Book History from the Margins” is now closed. Please see the program page.
From Gutenberg to the Gallery: Five Decades of Print and Book Art From Turkey Press
APHA members will soon receive Printing History 33. Guest editor, and APHA’s Vice President for Programs, Danelle Moon developed this 80-page issue from the theme of APHA’s 2022 conference Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present. Ms. Moon was ably advised by the Editorial Committee: Josef Beery, Sam Lemley, Paul Shaw, and Irene Tichenor. [Read more]
From the Contact form:
I’m looking for more information about the publisher C[harles?] S. Webb, in particular anything that relates to the Narrative of the capture, sufferings, and miraculous escape of Mrs. Eliza Fraser that he printed in 1837. Information about his career, other books he printed/published, or any suggestions as to where I can find more would be really helpful. Thank you so much! —Alice Procter
Nominations are OPEN for APHA’s Individual and Institutional awards! Propose a scholar, artist, bookbinder, printer, instructor, historian, typecaster, librarian, academic or community program, group or nonprofit, collective or bookdealer! Nominate at bit.ly/aphaawards – awards will be announced in January 2024.
From the Contact page:
I’m looking for information about the St Louis publisher F. L. Rand, responsible for a series of small dictionaries used as premiums for school shoes from about 1923–1927. [Read more]
From the Contact page:
Hello APHA! I’m doing research on picture postcards from the early decades of the twentieth century, and I’m interested in determining when commercial printers in North America began to adopt petroleum-based or -derived inks. [Read more]