2024 Annual Meeting
Harold Kyle
You are cordially invited to our annual meeting on Saturday, January 27, 2024, 2 p.m. (EST) to conduct APHA’s business and celebrate excellence in printing history. [Read more]
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Nominee bios for APHA Board 2024
The American Printing History Association is pleased to introduce members who have agreed to serve as officers and Trustees on the APHA board. This dynamic group of talented people will grow our organization and keep APHA thriving. We’re excited they are joining us.
The Nominating Committee
E. Haven Hawley, Chair
Richard Minsky; Robert McCament; James Ascher; and Hosea Baskin
Accepting Applications for the 2024 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History
APHA is accepting applications for the 2024 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. This award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms. [Read more]
2024 APHA Award Winners
More Zephyrus Images
Alastair Johnston
Printing History 33 ran the article “Subversive Letterpress: The Art of Zephyrus Image” by Alastair Johnston. That brief overview, based on his bibliography, showed only four images. Shortly after publication, I saw some framed Zephyrus Image prints owned by Daniel Gardiner Morris of The Arm Letterpress, who shared the digital files below and for which Mr. Johnston supplied captions. —Editor [Read more]
Reading Rogers
Andrew Hoyem
The Pleasures of A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick [Laurence Sterne], Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1905. [Read more]
Archiving as a Tool for Rural Jobbing Printers in Late 1800s Great Britain Through the Lens of the C. Armstrong/E. Pruddah Collection
Andrew Byrom
2023 Conference Registration is Closed
Registration for APHA’s 48th annual conference “The Printed Weird: Book History from the Margins” is now closed. Please see the program page.
2023 Lieberman Lecturer: Harry Reese
From Gutenberg to the Gallery: Five Decades of Print and Book Art From Turkey Press
December 14, 5–7, PST
The LetterForm Archive
2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107
Printing History 33 in the Mail
APHA members will soon receive Printing History 33. Guest editor, and APHA’s Vice President for Programs, Danelle Moon developed this 80-page issue from the theme of APHA’s 2022 conference Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present. Ms. Moon was ably advised by the Editorial Committee: Josef Beery, Sam Lemley, Paul Shaw, and Irene Tichenor. [Read more]