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Subject: PRINT SHOPS - 1880s

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BILL NAIRN

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Date Posted: 01:08:53 11/26/01 Mon
In reply to: Mary Cronk 's message, "I need information" on 20:27:35 09/10/01 Mon

Small newspaper offices would have had much the same equipment irrespective of the country.

Typical equipent would be cases of handset type, a press:
could have been an Albion or Columbian-type or a hand-fed
steam or water-powered cylinder press; lockup stones to assemble the pages into formes, furniture (for locking-up
the pages), a paper guillotine is likely also.
Linotypes did not appear in the big daily newspapers until the late 1880s and some years before the small country newspapers used this technology.
Best wishes,
BILL NAIRN

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