Mark Barbour introduces us to the International Printing Museum’s late-nineteenth-century “Grasshopper” newspaper press. (Jess Touchette)

friday, october 7

Working Tour at the International Printing Museum in Carson

Mark Barbour, Founding Curator and Executive Director of the International Printing Museum in Carson, California, led us on a three-hour tour of the museum’s exhibition space. The huge, high-ceilinged building is packed with an impressive array of working nineteenth- and twentieth-century presses and printing tools, yet houses only a portion of founder Ernest A. Lindner’s Collection of Antique Printing Machinery, as quite a few pieces remain in storage due to lack of space. [Read more]