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I am writing a Grade 5 book on John Dunlap’s broadside and I wanted to follow up on some questions I put to your members some time ago. Is Rich Hopkins is still available to answer a few questions by email? Is there anyone else who can tell me about the effects of the revolution on types those days, and on the process that night? I am particularly interested in how and why printers really felt their calling was an artform, not just everyday labor. Thanks, Jenny Green

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American Printing History Association Annual Conference

New York City & Berkeley, October 17–19, 2024

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Elizabeth and J. Ben Lieberman in their home at the famed The Kelmscott/Goudy Press, which they acquired in 1961. Now at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.

For APHA’s celebration of its 50th year, we will post stories and reminiscences from and about early members and founding board members.  

To participate, please contact the website editor.

The American Printing History Association is currently accepting applications for the position of editor of its flagship publication, Printing History. The journal is published in print twice a year. This is a part-time position which pays the editor a stipend of $5,000 per year and has a term limit of five years. [Read more]

Sometimes, what the sideline reporter cooks up is more interesting than the football game being broadcast. Hopefully, that’s not the case here. Instead, consider this “the rest of the story,”—behind-the-scenes information on the book Making Printers’ Type: Man’s 500 Year Quest to Develop Better Methods, which I published in 2020. [Read more]

APHA welcomes UCLA Distinguished Professor of Bibliographic Studies, critical author on art and design, and dynamic exponent of the 20th and 21st century artists’ book movement to the editorial committee of Printing History.  [Read more]

APHA members will soon receive Printing History 34. Managing Editor editor, and APHA’s Vice President for Publications, Josef Beery shepherded this 76-page issue and was ably advised by the Editorial Committee: Johanna Drucker, Sam Lemley, Paul Shaw, and Irene Tichenor. [Read more]

The scanning of  APHA’s Newsletter Archive is complete, and all issues are available to the public. The newsletter was published for members from 1974 to 2013. It featured accounts of APHA activities, announcements of upcoming events, reports from regional chapters, and miscellaneous news items of interest to members.

San Francisco had long been an entryway for those seeking opportunities in the West. By the turn of the twentieth century, San Francisco was a center for “bohemian” creativity. Metaphorically, local bookman Paul Elder was an avid gardener when the California Arts and Crafts Movement emerged celebrating the state’s distinctive biome. [Read more]