| Description | English: Illustration from The Writer’s Magazine, 1914 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Source | The Writer’s Magazine |
| Author | Anonymous (signature illegible, and possibly backwards) |
Carrying a Pile of Fresh Printing
Category Archives: Printing
Printer and Compositor
| Description | English: Illustrations from The Writer’s Magazine, 1914 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Source | The Writer’s Magazine |
| Author | Anonymous |
Printer at Work
| Description | English: Printer at work: Title-page vignette by Waldemar Zachrisson from Boktryckeri-Kalender 1897 |
| Date | 1897 |
| Source | Boktryckeri-Kalender 1897 (https://archive.org/details/boktryckeri-kalender-1897zaschrisson/page/n25/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Waldemar Zachrisson |
Linotype Operator
| Description | English: “The Hand That Keeps the World Informed”: Linotype operator at work |
| Date | 1923 |
| Source | The Manual of Linotype Typography (https://archive.org/details/manualoflinotype00merg/page/n7/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Salamander with Crown
| Description | English: Crowned Salamander, printer’s mark of Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, middle 1500s |
| Date | 1547 |
| Source | De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, ac de ratione curandi eos (https://archive.org/details/delumbricisalvum00gabu) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Sibyl
| Description | English: Sibyl, printer’s mark of Michele Tramezzino of Venice |
| Date | 1549 |
| Source | De Antiquitatibus urbis Romae (https://archive.org/details/deantiqvitatibvs00faun/page/n3/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Making Playing Cards
| Description | English: Workshop of a master cardmaker in the Place Dauphine, Paris, from a gouache from the end of the 17th century preserved in the Musée Carnavalet Français : L’atelier d’un maître cartier habitant Place Dauphine, à Paris, d’après une gouache de la fin du XVIIe siècle conservée au Musée Carnavalet |
| Date | Late 1600s (printed 1906) |
| Source | Les cartes à jouer du XIVe au XXe siècle (https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-122623-2081/page/n11/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Scale of Complementary Colors
| Description | English: Color wheel from an 1892 treatise on color printing |
| Date | 1892 |
| Source | The Color Printer (https://archive.org/details/gri_c00033125008234680/page/n101/mode/2up) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Linn Boyd Benton by R. H. Sommer
| Description | English: Portrait of Linn Boyd Benton by R. H. Sommer |
| Date | 1922 |
| Source | The Inland Printer (https://archive.org/details/inlandprint7019221923chic/page/n63/mode/2up) |
| Author | R. H. Sommer |
Benton was the type designer responsible for the Century family.
Duplicating Machine
| Description | English: Schlicht & Field Co. Rapid Roller Damp Leaf Copier in use |
| Date | 1887 |
| Source | Schlicht and Field Co. catalogue (https://archive.org/details/cataloguelabors00schl/page/50/mode/2up) |
| Author | Signed “Higinbotham” |