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Via the Photopolymer Listserv, a visual representation of various occupations, male vs. female , from 1850-1900:

I typed in "Typesetter"--why the female peak around 1900?

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Next May, Ladies of Letterpress will have a booth at the National Stationery Show! This is great, of course, but we (for I'll be there too) wouldn't have been exhibiting there as a group without the great organization that is Ladies of Letterpress, which is now made up of over 300 printers worldwide (yay!). The Stationery Show is a great opportunity to promote LofL and bring it to a wider audience and public forum, and we want to make sure that the members are also well-represented. We're discus… Continue

How sweet is this baby-faced printer-in-training? Note the wedge quoins in the chases, the row of platens, the pressman remarking on something, the sleeve garters. The caption reads: "New York, February 1917. "Horace Lindfors, 14-year-old printer's helper, sizing up leads for the Riverside Press, First Avenue… Continue

This past weekend, a friend told me about Tin Eye--a search engine that lets you search by image, rather than by words. From the site, tineye.com:

"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the imag… Continue

The perpetual type favorite Mrs Eaves, designed by Zuzana Licko for Emigre, has a new companion type, Mr Eaves Sans!

It's gorgeous, of course, and reminds me a lot of Johnston Sans, the famous type used in the London underground:… Continue