Printing's Past -by Frank Granger

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Seventy historical anecdotes/essays inspired by the printing industry by Frank Granger.

Table of Contents

• The Early History of Newspapers
• Woman's Work
• The Early American History of Counterfeiting
• Count Lustig and His Money Printing Machine
• Trade Terms
• 60-Year-Old Printing
• Millard Fillmore's Famous Bathtub
• A Life and Legacy of Irony
• Wanted! Printer to Invent the Want Ad!
• Duplicating in the year B.C. – Before (xerographic) Copies
• Pick and Click
• Printers All
• Books on Bookshelves
• The Evolution of Book Anatomy
• The Oldest Printing Process in the World
• Confederate Textbooks
• The Great Cat Massacre
• The Amazing Life of Abel Buell
• Making It Hard to Print
• Transitional Technologies
• Death of the Book?
• The Secret Service and Infamous Counterfeiters
• Archaic Printing Terms
• The First Printing in the Carolinas
• The Art and Science of Platemaking
• Gutenberg - The Most Important Person of the Millennium
• Christopher Latham-Sholes and the Birth of "Desktop Publishing"
• The Wit & Wisdom of Elbert Huddard
• A Message to Garcia
• The Printer's Tramp
• A Short History of the Business Card
• Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
• Printing Pictures
• Printing and the English Reformation
• The Printer's Devil
• The First Woman Printer
• The Devil's Dollar
• A Brief History of Packages
• A Professional - Whistler
• Ambrose Bierce and The Devil's Dictionary
• In Case You Asked
• Hubbard's Prayer
• Printers and Punctuation 
• Printer's Quiz 
• What Shape Is Your Figure? 
• The Eccentric Side of Benjamin Franklin 
• Printing and the Bible 
• Canned Milk and The Lone Star Printer 
• The Printer and the Spy 
• Unfit to Print - Censorship of Printing 
• Currier and Ives and the Lithograph 
• Dard Hunter - The Printer's Printer 
• Typographic Tangles and Mistakes of Malice 
• Thomas J. Foster - Printer and Educator 
• "The Good Old Days?" 
• Joel Chandler Harris - Southern Folklorist and Printer 
• The Ligature - What Sort Type Is This? 
• A Fairy Tale - How To Profit From Your Mother-In-Law 
• Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee Newspaper 
• Newsboys - "Devils In Training" 
• America's First Printing School 
• Why The Romans Never Invented Printing 
• "To Be A Printer Or Not To Be A Printer" - William Shakespeare 
• Women Printers in Colonial America 
• A Poem of the Black Art - Annotated 
• Twenty-six Wonders 
• Ink - Fountain of Darkness, Source of Light
• Adventures of a Tramp Printer
• A Few Defining Moments of Printing's Past
• Engraving Terms (PDF 139K)
• John A. Hill (PDF 94K)
• The Permanence of Old Books (PDF 80K)
• Old Mr. Greenback (PDF 111K)
• The Printing Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (PDF 129K)
• The Good Gray Printer: Walt Whitman (PDF 122K)
• Printing Museums (PDF 23K)

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Printing's Past ?

Printing's Past is mailed monthly to any publication, association, club, or company that requests it. There is no charge for this service. The purpose is to motivate those working in the printing industry through the recounting of the heritage of the graphic communication industry.

Printing's Past is available on disk, via e-mail, or in hard copy. Publications are free to reproduce individual columns. The right to produce collected editions of the columns in book form are reserved by the author.

This is a labor of love receiving no outside support so your suggestions on how we can more efficiently serve you are always welcome and appreciated.

Frank Granger

Printing's Past

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Lake Wylie, SC 29710

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Copyright (C) 1997 by Frank Granger