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A scanned image of a two-sided business card. The front reads, "Jane B. Golightly, Assistant Superintendent, Composing. The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20071." Phone numbers are given for TTY, Fax, and Pager.

As a supervisor, Janie Golightly distributed business cards to her work contacts. Her card includes information for contacting via TTY, fax, and…

Deaf Festival '95

The press department of The Washington Post produced a weekly newsletter for sharing information about the paper and it’s employees. Issues of…

A scanned image of an article describing new technologies. The accompanying black and white photograph shows several white, middle aged men and a white woman, standing at a desk with a box-computer terminal.

System Update...

Employees of the composing room at The Washington Post created an internal newsletter for sharing information. Issues of CompWaves included…

Agreement Between The Washington Post and Columbia Typographical Union No. 101-12 1990-2000

Through collective bargaining, the ITU members at The Washington Post obtained particular job protections. Among those engaged in bargaining on behalf…

Definition: LINOTYPE

LINOTYPE: a typesetting machine that used molds and molten lead to cast lines of text used in printing.

DPN - Mayflower Protest

Deaf printers joined students, faculty, and community members at the Mayflower Hotel on March 6, 1988 as part of the DPN protest.

A color photograph of a fair-skinned middle-aged man, seated at a computer work station. In front of him is a box-style desktop computer screen. Around him are stacks of papers. Beside the computer is an old TTY device.

Dick Moore in Ad Operations

In the 1990s, employees of the Ad Department, like Dick Moore, used computer programs to edit and layout pages of Ads. This reflected the transition…

A color photograph of a fair-skinned middle-aged woman seated at a large white paste up desk. She leans over a paste up board placing and pressing on pieces of printed text. In the background, paste up boards can be seen across multiple workstations.

Sue Ayers in Paste Up

Prior to computerized newspaper design, paste up was integral to the printing process. In the composing room of The Washington Post, employees used…

A pdf of the Wisconsin Times Vol.13, No.10. The traditionally printed page features a simple text masthead with four columns of text.

The Wisconsin Times (1889-1917, 1921, 1928-PRESENT)

A pdf of the Wisconsin Deaf Mute Times Vol.7, No.16. The traditionally printed page features a simple text masthead with four columns of text.

The Wisconsin Deaf Mute Times (1883, 1887)

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