Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, Coins etc.

[Geoffrey Quadland]

I really like the Metaltype publication, and think that it fills a niche that needs to be filled. I have one small suggestion.

In the USA and Canada, at least, professional printers do not like or use the term "stickers." Their term for them is "labels." For instance, their trade association is TLMI, the Tag and Label Manufacturers' Institute. When they hear the term "sticker," they cringe.

Because of this, you might want to consider renaming the subject of this column "Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, etc."

Best regards, Geoff

[Dave Hughes]

Thanks Geoff, I am often surprised by how our usage of the same language varies.

I have made some changes and further posts on this thread should ditch the word stickers in favour of labels.

[Geoffrey Quadland]

That's great, Dave. Thanks for being receptive to that suggestion.

Regards, Geoff

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further to post 80 on page 6 of this thread

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GODFREY PHILLIPS - THIS MECHANIZED AGE 1936     Number 36 - NEWSPAPER PRESS

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GODFREY PHILLIPS - THIS MECHANIZED AGE 1937 (2ND SERIES)    Number 8 - LINOTYPE MACHINE

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MITCHELL'S CIGARETTES  1937   Wonderful Century (1837 – 1937)  Number 41 of a set of 50 - TYPESETTING

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Further to post number 14 on page 1
Sunblest Inventions & Discoveries   1960  Cards released in two series.   Series 1 contains cards 1-25 and the Second series cards 26-50, the series are clearly marked on the cards.

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Postcard titled 'Typography Serbia 1930'  I have no image of the back of the card

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Linotype postcard dating from around 1930

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Linotype Ladies



"Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper, operating Linotype machine." September 1942. Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia.
Photo by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration.



A Linotype operator at work in the pressroom.



Jan. 29, 1942 Linotype machine at the News-Journal Company, Gloria Warren. 1306-000-000 #2459. From the DeDO collection at the Delaware Public Archives. www.archives.delaware.gov



A young Marajen Stevick Chinigo learns how to operate the linotype machine that was used in the press room in the original office at 48 Main Street, in Champaign. © 2024 Champaign Multimedia Group, LLC. All rights reserved.



Linotype operator. Chicago, Illinois by Russell Lee



A linotype machine operator at a publishing house, 1920
This image also appeared on a postage stamp issued on 8 August 2013 in a series 'Building a Nation' - Linotype operator
       




Linotype operator c.1920

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Two more Linotype Ladies in with some male operators.