(Amelia Fontanel)
The American Printing History Association is thrilled to partner with the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for this year’s Wayzgoose. Plans are underway for a dynamic and diverse, online “AWAYzgoose” to be held the first week of November 2020. More details are forthcoming; meanwhile, you’re invited to join us at the next Hamilton Hang via Zoom on Tuesday, June 2, 6:00 pm Central, when we are discussing AWAYZgoose 2020. [Read more]
DEADLINE EXTENDED: The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce that our 2020 annual conference will be held in partnership with the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin November 6-8, 2020. We are excited to accept letters of proposal for 30-minute speaking topics, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops. See the attached PDF for more details. Please note the deadline for applications is April 3oth, 2020. | Revised PDF
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.
The Nominating Committee
Ethan Lipton
Robert McCamant
Emily Martin
Nina Schneider, Chair
The Annual Meeting of the American Printing History Association
Trustees Room, New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY
Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 2 pm
E. Haven Hawley, President
NYPL staff member
Charles Cuykendall Carter, Vice-President for Membership
— A moment of silence for members who passed away in the last year
Jesse Ryan Erickson, Vice-President for Programs
Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications
David Goodrich, Treasurer
The American Printing History Association (APHA) is currently accepting applications for the 2020 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History for the study of printing history. An 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]
We are pleased to announce that members of both the Chesapeake and Northern California chapters of APHA have produced beautiful 2020 calendars for sale via the links above. [Read more]
At the University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland | October 25 to 27, 2019
Registration has officially opened for “One Press, Many Hands: Diversity in the History of American Printing.”
All information regarding the conference including the schedule, registration, and travel details can be found here. Registration can be accessed here.
All are welcome; you need not be a current APHA member to attend this year’s conference. Please encourage any friends or colleagues who might be interested to come. The registration fee is $150.
If you’re interested in joining, please check out our membership information.
We look forward to seeing you all in College Park!
Steve Saxe in his pressroom at his home in White Plains, NY June 14, 2014 (Paul Moxon)
We are sad to report that Stephen O. Saxe, one of the APHA founders, longtime APHA newsletter editor, and printing historian, died April 27. An obituary is forthcoming.
APHA welcomes research papers, panels, roundtables, or workshops covering diversity in the history of American printing. APHA’s 2019 conference, One Press, Many Hands, intends to shed light on the rich history of printing and publishing in America from diverse groups. Generations of past scholars in the field have devoted their research to studies rooted in Eurocentric and Anglo-American histories of printing. However, as the United States becomes increasingly diverse communities of scholarship have sought to engage with issues that have arisen from the transformation in our national demographic makeup. [Read more]
Left: Sample cover for a Bible, which would have been carried by a book agent to give customers a sense of their options when purchasing a bespoke Bible. (Zinman Collection of Canvassing Books at the University of Pennsylvania) Right: An idealized engraving of the work of the Bible Society in disseminating scripture, by Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886). (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Printing History 25, produced by the team of Brooke Palmieri, editor; Michael Russem, publication designer; and Katherine Ruffin, Vice-President for Publications, is being mailed to APHA members this week. [Read more]