A Model 31 Linotype at the International Printing Museum, plus some other pics, kindly donated by Dr Leland Whitson.
Category: USA/Canada
Linotype Factory, Brooklyn
A superb colour illustration of the Linotype Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA from about 1900-1920. Kindly sent in by Roy Daniels.
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Hemphill County News
Picture taken in the 1930s/40s
Cosco Printing
Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.
Edward Farnell (1915-1998)
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METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.
The site originally concentrated on the ingenious Linotype mechanical typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884.