Pressure print form, wood type. and resulting print from workshop. (Photos: Melanie Leung)
Sun., Oct. 27 | Pyramid Atlantic is located in the Gateway Arts District in Hyattsville, Maryland. It occupies a space that has had several previous uses, including a church, arcade and duckpin bowling alley.
Our tour began on the ground floor. There is a small shop as you enter, which then transitions into an open floor plan, divided into the following studio spaces: letterpress, bindery, and printmaking. Down the hall, there are tables for classes and separate rooms for papermaking, screen printing, a darkroom, as well as separate office-type studios for artists. The second floor also has offices and a small library, though the majority of the space is used as a gallery for artists to exhibit their work. You can also see some elements of the building’s history preserved here in some of the architectural elements of the space. [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]
I am writing about the earliest days of the Providence (R.I.) Journal, which at that time—the late 1820s—used a “Ramage printing press.” I’d like to describe in great detail what that must have been like: what it looked like, how it worked, what smells were emitted, what the job assignments might have been for the various employees in a small printing shop. Thanks, Dan Barry
I have heard that back in the 1930s that printers would charge more money when a book required the occasional use of Italic type when needed. I myself do not see logic in that. Do you have any insight?
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.
I am working on a play and have a question for a scene set in 1937: a reporter is writing a story in manuscript and hands it to his editor. He’s working on a manual typewriter. But what does the paper look like? Is it 8×11 or legal sized? Is it newsprint or something else? Or did it vary enough from paper to paper that it doesn’t matter? If you can refer me to a source—much appreciated!
I am a librarian in the „zentrale Hochschulbibliothek“ in Flensburg, Germany and I am responsible for the textbooks, because we have a lot of students here which are studying teaching. So I want to beautify my textbook-department with some instructive and interesting posters. If you can donate any posters with the main theme [being] printing/letterpress please let me know. If you have something like this in poster size for our library it would be so nice. Thank you for your time and best wishes from the most northern part of Germany.
I’m related to John Mott a printer in New York (possibly Long Island) during the middle 1700s. His daughter was Amelia Mott who married John Ryan (a printer born in Newport and who set up several newspapers in Atlantic Canada) and Jacob S. Mott (who learned printing from his father). I am looking to learn more about John Mott from New York and was wondering if you could recommend any books covering the history of printing in New York from 1730–1800. Carol Cooke
Stephen O. Saxe and Amelia Hugill-Fontanel discussing the frisket of his foolscap Albion iron handpress. White Plains, New York, 2018. Photograph by Richard Kegler.
Stephen O. Saxe, a collector and historian whose canon of writings on printing history set the standard for contemporary practice in the field, died on April 28, 2019 at his home in White Plains, New York. He was 89 years old. He succumbed to complications after a heart attack, confirmed his longtime friend Karen Horton.[1] [Read more]
I am looking to find a scholar, book, or any materials on Victorian punctuation—particularly, the use of “critical apparatuses”—I quoted that term because I’m not sure that is what they are called. [Read more]
