Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records

1886-1997

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These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company supplied most of the typesetting machines used in the printing industry, both in America and worldwide. As changing technology ended the usefulness of the linotype machine the company pioneered new computer-driven, photo typesetting machines.

108 Cubic feet (257 boxes, 1 map-folder)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662825

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Mergenthaler Linotype company

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The period from 1825 on saw the development of composing machines that would speed the process of typesetting in the face of vastly increased demand for books in Europe and the United States. About 300 had been patented by the time Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) introduced his version in 1886. The German immigrant had worked in a Baltimore machine shop for a decade while perfecting a machine that used small brass matrixes with impressions of the letterforms, etc. and melted lead to cast slugs b...