Posts Tagged ‘California Job Case’

June 29

posted on 29 June 2010, under A Printer’s Almanac

Compositor William A. Hunter, of Bryan, Ohio no doubt wearying of his continued purchasing of soap, received a patent this day in 1858 which offered some promise of alleviating the problem. The nature of Hunter’s contribution to the history of American ingenuity evolved the construction of a type case with a metallic screen bottom. In [...]

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The Uncertain Background of Type Cases

posted on 5 November 2009, under Typographically Speaking

To mention type cases in this automated age is to indicate, at the very least, an interest in antiques. It becomes increasingly evident that the only thing to do with a case of type is to dump it in the hell box, clean it up, paint the boxes in the wildest possible colors, and hang [...]

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