Ottmar Mergenthaler & The Linotype

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Postcard from Rome  dated 1959

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Postcard from France  dated 1925



Another female linotype operator shown in bottom shot

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 Hachtel - Ottmar Mergenthaler Birthplace Memorial    Postcard from 1958

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Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Linotype (1886)



"Graphic Communications Through the Ages" commemorates significant milestones in the history of communications technologies: the development of paper and character forms, typography design, and printing. The paintings were commissioned in 1966 by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, who employed three internationally-known historical illustrators to produce the series: Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish, Jr.(1930-1992).

Mergenthaler and his Linotype was painting number 20 out of 24.