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I am doing some research for a current project on printing. I need to know the type of vessel ink came in at a 1900-1905 commercial printer’s shop. I would like a visual showing what it would have looked like. For example, the ink used in printing a newspaper at that time.
Brenda White
APHA member, designer and design historian, Paul Shaw, is looking for information on the whereabouts of three scrapbooks of paper company advertising designs (ca. 1911–1928) assembled by the Brad Stephens Co. of Boston.
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I am at the Tubac Presidio State Park in Arizona. We have a chance to create a small exhibit on the history of printing. Is there a good, not very technical book you would recommend we can reference? We need to impart general knowledge for the average museum goer.
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My family operated an off set printing machine in our home from approximately 1958 to 1965. My mother printed civil defense cards and later CB cards. She used various colors of ink. I am trying to find out what toxins were in the ink as well as the solvents used to clean the printing press.
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I’m trying to determine the typeface used by Baltimore newspapers ca. 1890. With Mergenthler’s Linotype company in Baltimore, my thought is that the Baltimore newspapers were quick converts to the new technology, and they probably used the initial factory-supplied typeface.
S. Brent Morris
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Hi there. I am amazed to see this organization exists! I am an employee for a paper merchant in Texas and I am glad to find this website. I was intrigued by the printing timeline posted on the home page and wondered if there was a printed version of it in poster or brochure format? I am the Co-President of our local AIGA chapter and we have organized a Women Lead Letterpress Workshop for March 30th. I was hoping I could distribute to our attendees a copy of the timeline. Let me know if that’s possible. Thanks!
Louis Cuellar, San Antonio AIGA
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I am researching a book, and one of the people in it closed out his career in the 1980s at Steenland Lithography, apparently in the metro Philadelphia area. He was Steenland’s “director of research,” so I assume it was a company of some size. But I have been unable to find any references to it, its business, its fate. I’m seeking guidance to someone who might know about the industry in that area in that period or who might know the Steenland name. Any direction you could provide to secondary sources would be terrific, too. Thanks very much, and I look forward to returning the favor.
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Hi im very interesred in printing. In my younger days i had printing shop in both jr high and high school. I would love to learn more and am very interested in finding a group near me. Any help with locating a group near me would be greatly appreciated. Would love to volunteer and learn. zip code 48044 macomb twp mi. Best regards mark
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I’m doing a school project about postal history and I’m trying to find a portrait of Charles (Fenton) Whitely, the American printer who moved to London and was involved with printing the penny back postage stamp.
Please let me know if you can help with my search. A JPEG image would be thankfully received.
Many thanks indeed.
Gerard.
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I am trying to determine the mechanism that caused eighteenth and nineteenth century red ink to turn black. Oxidation/sulphorisation? Did it happen in the bottle, in the ink pad, after application to paper or all three? Any help would be appreciated