Description: Photograph shows two men operating what appers to be a rotary printing press. The machines are roughly ten feet tall and use several cylanders to continually feed, press, and print the paper. One man is standing with his hands on his hips as he watches paper on the roller unwind. The other man stands behind him with one hand on a lever on the printing press. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Printing can be done on large number of substrates, including paper, cardboard, and plastic. Substrates can be sheet feed or unwound on a continuous roll through the press to be printed and further modified if required (e.g. die cut, overprint varnished, embossed). Printing presses that use continuous rolls are sometimes referred to as "web presses." Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe in 1843, perfected in 1846, and patented in 1847. (Note – Some sources describe Parisian 'Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni', (1823, 7 January 1904) as the inventor of the Rotary printing press. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F09_016_1
Subjects: Printing Industry of Ohio; Printing--Ohio--History; Printing industry--United States--History--20th century
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photo depicts the interior of a factory containing Harris Automatic printing press machines in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_009_1
Subjects: Printing Industry of Ohio; Printing--Ohio--History; Printing industry--United States--History--20th century; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing an office interior at the Educational Printing House, located at Front and Fulton Streets in Columbus, Ohio, 1936. The office was built by Elford, Inc. a construction company founded in 1910 in Columbus by Edward "Pop" Elford. Edward's son Harold joined the firm in 1923 and the company began to expand. Under Harold's leadership, the company built twelve facilities at Ohio State University, and completed over thirty construction projects for Battelle Memorial Institute. The company went onto build a wide variety of buildings including banks, churches, hospitals, hotels/motels, offices and rental buildings. Significant examples of their work include the Harding Memorial, St. Stephen's Church, and the Dublin (Ohio) Bridge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P390B03F12_001
Subjects: Construction industry--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Office buildings; Printing industry and trade--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated June 8, 1937, this photograph shows a man operating a casting machine at Rapid Electrotype Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Organized July 1899, the Rapid Electrotype Company was a pioneer in the business of making and distributing newspaper advertising plates. The plates, electrotypes, aluminotypes, stereotypes, and mats, were sent directly from the factory to the newspapers and dealers through out the country. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F09_013_1
Subjects: Newspapers; Industry; Machinery; Printing industry; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Casting room at Rapid Electrotype, Co. Cincinnati, Ohio." Electrotyping is an application of the art of electroplating to typography, used for making duplicate plates for relief printing. The Rapid Electrotype Company was founded in 1899, pioneering in making and distributing newspaper advertising plates to newspapers and dealers throughout the United States. This unique service allowed advertising agencies and advertisers to drastically increase their capacity of printing in the first quarter of the 20th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_028_1
Subjects: Electrotyping; Printing industry; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Five newsboys in front of the Wyandot Union Republican newspaper office in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Broadsides on the building advertise public sales, an upcoming concert, and the campaign of William H. Taft for president. The Wyandot Union Republican was a daily newspaper published in and distributed across Upper Sandusky from 1903 through 1916. Its preceding title was Wyandot County Republican (1869-1903) and it was succeeded by the Daily Union (1916-1938). Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07769
Subjects: Newspaper publishing; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Newspapers; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio);
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Warren G. Harding at the headquarters of his newspaper, the Marion Star, during the 1920 "front porch" campaign. He is pictured setting type. Harding ran his 1920 presidential campaign from the front porch of his Victorian house in Marion, Ohio. People from all over Ohio and the United States came to hear him speak. Frequently, his speeches were then printed in newspapers and recorded on phonograph for the rest of the country. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05223
Subjects: Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Newspaper publishing; Newspapers
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Achilles Pugh, a prominent Quaker printer, was the founder of the A.H. Pugh Printing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pugh's company began publishing James Birney's abolitionist newspaper, "The Philanthropist," in April 1836. This image is from "Historical Collections of Ohio," published by Henry Howe in 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04171
Subjects: Abolitionists -- Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Newspaper publishing
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Men and women posing at printing presses at Pfeiffer printing shop, 1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00122
Subjects: Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Women seated at printing presses at Pfeiffer printing shop, 1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00123
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Women--Employment; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pictured is a box label that reads “Old Papermaking, by Dard Hunter.” William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (1883-1966) was a notable printer and papermaker. The label shows Hunter's bull-and-branch printer's mark. A printer’s mark is a publisher's emblem or trademark, which usually is placed on the title page of a book. Hunter added a new branch to his printer's mark whenever he wrote, designed, and printed a new book. Therefore, this mark shows that "Old Papermaking" (Chillicothe, Ohio: Dard Hunter, 1923) was Hunter's third book. William Joseph Hunter was born in 1883 in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a papermill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its staff artist. Dard became interested in the Arts and Crafts movement, and in 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05958
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Papermaking; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Roycroft Shop
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pictured is the title page of “Old Papermaking,” a book written by Dard Hunter and published in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1923. Hunter was a notable printer and papermaker. The title page shows Hunter's bull-and-branch printer's mark. A printer’s mark is a publisher's emblem or trademark, which usually was placed on a book's title page. Hunter added a new branch to his printer's mark whenever he wrote, designed, and printed a new book. Therefore, this mark shows that "Old Papermaking" was Hunter's third book. William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (1883-1966) was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its artist. In 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05959
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Papermaking; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Roycroft Shop
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)