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28
May
History of Printing Timeline: 1827 – 1880
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1827 John B. Russwurm establishes Freedom’s Journal, first African-American newspaper in New York. Means for mass-producing wood type invented by Darius Wells […]
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6
May
History of Printing Timeline: 1751 – 1826
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1751 Diderot’s Encyclopédie published in France. 1752 Canada’s first newspaper the Halifax Gazette in Nova Scotia. 1755 A Dictionary of the English […]
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23
Apr
History of Printing Timeline: 1500 -1750
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1501 Italic type and small format books introduced by Aldus Manutius in Venice. 1514 Book of Hours printed in Arabic types in […]
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27
Mar
History of Printing Timeline: circa 3100 BCE – 1499
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ circa 3100 BCE Cuneiform, one of the earliest known writing systems developed in Sumer (modern day Iraq). Wedge-shaped marks were made on […]
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12
Oct
PGSF Announces 2023 John Berthelsen Award
Pittsburgh, PA – October 12, 2023 — The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF), a nonprofit organization working to build the future workforce of the graphic […]
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4
Apr
Clear Off the Dust – Spring has Sprung!
Happy Spring! Didn’t think it would ever get here. Of course, with Spring…comes Spring Cleaning. And for me, it means cleaning and dusting off my […]
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19
Sep
“Stand Up and Be Recognized”
In my last blog, I confessed about my sadness in failing to recognize my older sister throughout my life. Born four years before me, she […]
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