Trade catalogs of printers' supplies, 1920-1950.

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Trade catalogs of printers' supplies, 1920-1950.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122641765

Trade catalogs, brochures, correspondence of printing specimens, lettering and alphabets, linotype, and other ephemera relating to printers' supplies.

14 items (1 box) : ill.

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6801528

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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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...