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The swifts : printers in the age of typesetting races / Walker Rumble.
LIBRA - Special Z253 .R75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rumble, Walker.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Typesetting--United States--History--19th century.
- Typesetting.
- Typesetting--Competitions--United States--History--19th century.
- Printers--United States--Biography.
- Printers.
- Typesetting machines.
- History.
- Printing industry--Employees--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Printing industry--Employees.
- Printers--Employment.
- Contests.
- United States.
- Printers--Employment--United States--History--19th century.
- Printing industry--Employees--Effect of technological innovations on--United States--History--19th century.
- Printing industry.
- Typesetting machines--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- A Gutenberg legacy
- The Arensberg wager and the swifts
- The gendered machine of Timothy Alden
- Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1
- Joseph McCann takes the swifts to the show
- Fast women : the Boston typesetting races of 1886
- Mr. Mergenthaler's revolution
- Art and the swifts : shopfloor design from Harpel to Rogers
- The death of a velocipede.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-223) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0813921619
- OCLC:
- 50198535
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