Category: Reference

1950s Clipart

Cobb Shinn Examples

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Miscellaneous

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Typesetting

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Monotype

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Galley Gab

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Mike O’Connor, Secretary of the Amalgamated Printers Association, published 12 issues of this excellent, full-colour PDF magazine in 2007. Here, with Mike’s permission, are all 12 issues, available to browse and download individually or you can get all 12 issues as a Zip file (11.9 MB). Read the Full Article . . .

The Library

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Welcome to Metal Type

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. Read the Full Article . . .