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Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories.
In the 1800s, the automated printing press was invented. Suddenly books and printed material became much more widely available. As well as writing in their commonplace books, people began to cut out and stick in printed items. Things like greeting cards, calling cards, postcards, prayer cards, advertising trading cards and newspaper clippings were collected. Some of these books contained a mix of personal journal entries, hand-drawn sketches and watercolours, along with various scraps of printed material. These books were literally books of scraps.
By the 1820s, collectable scraps had become more elaborate. Some items were embossed: a process by which a die (a metal stamp for cutting or pressing) was punched into the reverse side of the paper, giving the front a raised three-dimensional appearance.
In 1837, the first year of Queen Victoria's reign, the colour printing process known as chromolithography was invented. This lead to the production of ‘ready made’ scraps. Brightly coloured and embossed scraps were sold in sheets with the relief stamped out to the approximate shape of the image. These pre-cut scraps were connected by small strips of paper to keep them in place. The laborious task of cutting out small pictures was thus removed, and sales of scraps went soaring. Many of the best-quality scraps of the period were produced in Germany, where bakers and confectioners used small reliefs to decorate cakes and biscuits for special occasions such as christenings, weddings, Christmas and Easter.
These embossed chromolithograph scraps are of German and British in origin and date from the 1880s.
The circus themed cards with their gilding are part of a set of eight which are French (although unmarked) and date from the 1870s.
One of the Leicester Print Workshop's wonderful old printing presses.
An exceptional art group that have gone from strength to strength and opened their doors to the public for an open weekend recently with hands on taster workshops, artists talks and exhibitions.
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Musée de l'Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique
Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication - Lyon - France
American made antique Columbian Printing Press (Side view) displayed in the Payana Car Museum, Srirangapatna, Karnataka.
The original Gaveaux printing press was brought to the mission from France in the early 1840s; between 1842 and 1849 it printed over 30,000 books and tracts, some of the first in Māori. After the mission left Russell in 1850 the press was amongst the belongings redistributed. In 1857 the Waikato Māori asked for the press, which was given to them by Bishop Pompallier. The press was used by the Maori King to print the Māori-language newspaper Te Paki o Matariki. The press remained in Waikato until the 1990s when it was returned to Pompallier by the Māori Queen Te Atairangikaahu.
While the building was originally built for a printery, it also housed a tannery for book-binding.
Wikipedia.
Dallas Morning News
Each blue 'box' is a printing press which can print full color both sides of the newsprint paper. The Dallas Morning News has 17 presses. What you don't see is that these presses are 4 stories high. It starts with a roll of paper and the press prints, folds, cuts, and collates all in one continuous process. Basically, raw material goes in, a newspaper comes out. Fascinating....
If you have time, please watch this video, especially section 3 which shows the presses as they run.
Antique Printing Press by Harrild and Sons, Established in 1809 AD, displayed in the Payana Car Museum, Srirangapatna, Karnataka.
France, Alsace, Strasbourg, Place Gutenberg, with a historic two stage carrousel from 1900. This old carousel horses & all other figures are still made from wood & not of plastic.
The Place Gutenberg was built around 1100, in the centre of the square stands the statue of the printer Johannes Gutenberg by David d'Angers., holding in his hands a parchment where it is written: "Et la lumière fut", -and the light was-.
Gutenberg, born in Mainz, Germany, did indeed invent the printing press in Strasbourg, or at least did his first printing work, notably that of the Bible.
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From the introduction of the printing press in 1440 in Germany onwards. All sorts of documents and books could now be produced fairly quickly and in greater numbers. The power of words.
A printing press.
The Brotherhood began printing about 1745. They printed books, pamphlets and single sheets for the community and for outside customers until about 1792. They made their own paper and ink and bound books in leather and paper covers.
This boy was operating a printing press at the Colonial Days celebration in the Scera Park. This press was producing copies of the Declaration of Independence.
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Victor, CO - Meanwhile at the Victor Trading Company, they still use a letterpress that was manufactured in 1894 to make note cards for the shop. Most of the graphics they print are 19th-century images.
The owner purchased this letterpress about 30 years ago from someone who used it as lawn art. After several months of hard work, he was able to restore it to working condition.
The old letterpress has this rhythmic mechanical cadence that is almost hypnotizing.
Here is a picture of his wife The Broom Maker .
The home of the Chicago Tribune was the Freedom Center. It was a huge distribution and printing press for the newspaper. It was demolished to built the new Chicago Bally's casino. It was an amazing building to explore and take photos. I'll be posting also many photos before the demolition soon
This Chanfler and Price press was used to print the first edition of the Western Slope Criterion in Olathe, CO in 1905. Doesn't say if subsequent issues used this or another press. They were called snappers because they snapped shut and people had to be careful to not get their hands caught between the plates.
Pioneer Town Museum, Cedaredge, CO
Wynkyn de Worde, Alsatian printer, was William Caxton's assistant, and in about 1500 he was the first printer to set up shop in Fleet Street, which became for centuries the world's most famous centre of printing. He was not just a craftsman because his place in history is that of the first publisher to popularise the products of the printing press. His output was huge, with more then 700 known works over a period of forty years. He produced a great variety of books: children's books, short histories, poetry, romances, instructions for pilgrims, marriage, household practice and animal husbandry. He laid the foundations for commercial publishing in Britain. This is a revised third edition, with a new introduction by Lotte Hellinga and Mary Erler, and a detailed chronological bibliography of his works.
Museo del Oro, San Jose de Costa Rica
Cilindro con relieve utilizado para imprimir guardas sobre telas y sobre el propio cuerpo por las culturas originarias de Centro América...
This was so labor intensive, having to put every word together, letter by letter, by hand......printing one page at a time......and on top of it all, the letters were backwards.
From the February 19th, 1897 publication of The Navy and Army Illustrated, a remarkable photo by J. Thompson of a military field print shop. The following copy accompanied the photo: "The above is a capital illustration of a regimental printing press, as used by the Irish Royal Rifles. As will be seen by a glance at the picture, it contains all the necessary requisites for printing, with none of the drawbacks usually pertaining to that industry. The surroundings differ somewhat from the usual run of "Printing Offices," by which high-sounding title the little tent in which it stands is named. In a good many regiments a monthly newspaper is published, and it is chiefly for this purpose that these printing presses are used in the army. This paper, as a rule, gives the result of regimental football or cricket matches, as well as reports of theatricals, dances, suppers, notices of promotions in the regiment, or medals earned, a record of the marches,with the various stopping places, and official regimental notices. The possession of a press by the 1st Royal Irish Rifles gives evidence of the up-to-date, go-ahead spirit which prevails in the corps."
Spaceship Earth.
"In the mid fifteenth-century, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. His new device now makes information available to the masses. In the background of this scene we see pressmen sorting paper and setting type while in the foreground, Gutenberg examines a page from the bible he is currently printing. This sheet is an exact replica from the Gutenberg Bible on display at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California".
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The celebrated printing press of Derge Parkhang is a magnificent four-storey building with original frescoes that were blackened by smoke during the wanton destruction of the 1960s as was the Chinese Cultural revolution (gratuitously cruel), but recently restored with painstaking care. Beyond the portico, there is an inner courtyard, giving access to the temple on the ground level, the printing works on the second and third levels, and the rooftop chapels on the fourth level. The temple, known as the Chodzokhang, contains original exquisite images of (L-R): the three emanations of Manjughosa, namely: Sakya Pandita, flanked by Tsongkhapa and Longchen Rabjampa: along with Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, Amitabha, Shakyamuni, Padmasambhava, Manjughosa, Tara, Pelpung Situ Chokyi Jungne, and King Tenpa Tsering. Upstairs, is the precious collection of xylograph blocks, including the Derge editions of Kangyur, Tangyur, Nyingma Gyudbum and other works, which are constantly in demand throughout the towns, villages and monasteries of Tibet. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
The town of Derge is famous for its three-storey printing house, or parkhang, built in 1729, where Kangyur, a collection of Buddhist scriptures and Tengyur, a collection of commentaries, are still printed from wooden blocks. It was established during the reign of Derge king Tenpa Tsering. The printing house, run by monks, continues to use its ancient techniques and uses no electricity. The roof is used for drying the printed sheets.
It has been estimated that the 217,000 blocks stored at Derge comprise 70% of the Tibetan literary heritage. Derge knows all.
The town also contains several historic Tibetan monasteries, notably the Gongchen Monastery.
A vintage manual printing press located at Crossroads Village in Genesee, Michigan. This press is still in operation and worked by the print shop employees. Every flyer that is put up around the village comes from this shop.
Each blue box is a printing press which can print full color both sides of the newsprint paper. The Dallas Morning News has 17 presses, I think. What you don't see is that these presses are 4 stories high. It starts with a roll of paper and the press prints, folds, and collates all in one continuous process. Basically, raw material goes in, a newspaper comes out. Fascinating....
If you have time, please watch this video, especially section 3 which shows the presses as they run.
It seems like these days everyone is getting their photos of the UP job working the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center printing press before it is torn down and replaced by the new casino. I thought I would add a few of my own.
In this view the UP engine is heading out on the Tribune spur after dropping off a single boxcar load of newsprint on a hazy Friday morning. It previously pulled out the empties. Above is the Ohio/Ontario Feeder Ramp. The massive, grey building in the background on the right is the former Montgomery Ward catalog building which was served by the Milwaukee Road's C&E Line.
I caught it heading south along the Kennedy Expressway near Lawrence Avenue around 10:30 this morning on its way to the Tribune if anyone else wants to catch it. It goes down there M-W-F. Blommer did not see any action and the train later went down the Cragin Line to work Alpha Baking.
Newspaper production, BTW, will come out of the former and recently closed Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printing press in West Milwaukee which Tribune parent Alden purchased earlier this year, once the Freedom Center is shut down. Print copies of the Tribune and other papers it produces under contract for the Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times will then be trucked down in the mornings to the Chicago area for distribution.