Tramp Printers

Author : John M. Howells
Publisher : John Howells
ISBN 13 : 9780965097901
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tramp Printers written by John M. Howells and published by John Howells. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the invention of movable type in the 15th century, itinerant artisans roamed the highways and byways of the world, working where and when they pleased. It all ended five centuries later, when computer typesetting replaced humans. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Horace Greely (along with legions of much less famous printers) plied their trade and enjoyed adventures as tramp printers until it all suddenly vanished in the mid 1970s. A sociological study, as seen through the eyes of tramp printers themselves. Footloose and carefree, these adventurers enjoyed 500 years of freedom, working where and when they pleased. A vanished breed, today they live on through recollections, anecdotes, and memories of how it used to be, when printers worked with "real type."

Author : Charles Overbeck (Printer)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tramp Printers written by Charles Overbeck (Printer) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carrying a union journeyman’s card, a few basic tools, and little else, these 'itinerant' or 'tourist' typographers criss-crossed the continent for more than a century, train-hopping from newspaper to newspaper, following the railroad tracks.... The tramps helped each other over the hard places and spread the craft of printing along the way. And by standing strong in solidarity, journeymen printers fought for the eight-hour day — and won." -- Publisher website.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathy E. Ferguson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023864
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letterpress Revolution written by Kathy E. Ferguson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism’s remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Printers' Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Printers' Circular and Stationers' and Publishers' Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggie Holtzberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252017995
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost World of the Craft Printer written by Maggie Holtzberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She finds that a significant number of printers independently developed similar responses to the deskilling of their craft and the threat of unemployment. Demonstrating a widespread consistency in themes and expressive forms in the printers' occupational narratives, Holtzberg-Call shows that what once served as the printers' rhetoric of tradition is now their rhetoric of displacement. Initiation rites, long apprenticeships, a complex and peculiar jargon, and a gallery of legendary figures once bound hot-metal printers into a specialized, highly regarded occupational folk community. The hot-metal printers' lore has survived in an exemplary form that functions as a source of reconciliation with the demise of their craft." "Holtzberg-Call analyzes how and why the printers traditionalize and idealize their work experience, drawing parallels between the shift from mechanical to computer typesetting and an equally disconcerting transition in the nineteenth century, when Linotype deposed handset type. She also shares her knowledge of the many aspects of hot-metal printing culture, from the life of the tramp printer to the meanings of various printing terms to the operation of a Linotype machine. One gains a sense of the conditions in the old type shops, where long hours, excessive heat, and poorly ventilated fumes from solvent, ink, and molten lead were the crucible in which camaraderie, pride, and fulfillment were forged.".

Author : David Finkelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198826028
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movable Types written by David Finkelstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cultural history from renowned book historian David Finkelstein, who draws on a vast range of international sources to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century"--Source : éditeur.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.2M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inland Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Printer and Bookmaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: