I am a visual journalist at the ReadingEagle newspaper. We are working on a project celebrating our 150th anniversary here in Reading, Pennsylvania. These photographs show our pressmen working on two different presses, circa 1900. Each press is a different model. I’ve looked extensively through our archives and online but cannot identify the presses. I have consulted the books GOSS: Proud of the Past and Koenig & Bauer: 1817-1992: 175 Years because we have a history of using those manufacturers but no luck. Thanks for your help, Craig Schaffer [Read more]
I’m a history student from Germany and as such assisting Prof. Dr. Kim Christian Priemel in a research project on the history of the newspaper, book and print industry in the 20th century. [Read more]
Registration is open! The American Printing History Association’s 42nd annual conference will be held jointly with the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 6–7, 2017, with a post-conference event on October 8 at the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Please join us amidst a colorful New England autumn at the institution founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas for exploration of the production, distribution, reception, and survival of printed words and images in America to 1900.
Jude Lubrano from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians, rare book & manuscript dealers specializing in music, is seeking information about a set of engraving tools that she acquired a decade ago at an auction in Germany. [Read more]
I am writing on behalf of MontanaPBS. We are currently working on a documentary about CM Russell & The American West. For this, we are looking to acquire photos of mass printing technology from early 1900s. We are looking for the tools used during this time as well as some wide shots of them being used in newsrooms etc. Do you have any photos that fit these descriptions or know where we can continue our search?
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience. Maria Anderson
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.
The APHA website is now accepting short articles on lesser known aspects of the history of printing and related arts and crafts, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. Texts must be original but are not required to be scholarly. (That need is well met by APHA’s journal Printing History.) The website editor will consider biographical sketches, tales of provenance, professional reminiscences, as well as preliminary research. All are encouraged to submit—APHA members and nonmembers, students and non-academics, the trained and self-taught—by contacting the editor.
The speaker roster is now confirmed for “Good, Fast, Cheap: Printed Words and Images in America before 1900” our joint conference with the American Antiquarian Society. APHA’s forty-second annual conference will be held at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. Registration and other information are still in development. Please stay tuned.
Join APHA NorCal as we stroll around North Berkeley and visit some of the local print shops. We will see the studios of Norman McKnight, David Lance Goines, Richard Seibert, and Li Jiang, and we will be treated to a delicious lunch along the way.
This tour is strictly limited to the first 15 people who sign up! Be sure to renew your APHA NorCal membership, if you haven’t already, and sign up here today!
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.
