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Membership in the International Typographical Union admitted Deaf printers into a broader legacy of organized labor in the US. As outlined in the booklet, union participation ensured that Deaf printers received the same benefits and protections as…

The Washington Post was headquartered on 15th Street NW, for over forty years. In 2015 the newspaper moved into new offices at K and 13th streets. Three years later, the 15th street buildings were demolished. The move reflected the changing nature of…

Student protesters shut down the campus, blocking the entrance with signs and chanting for a Deaf president.

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

Printers at thePost often used the tools of their workspace to create their own newspaper pages. Here, one printer has substituted components from the front page and inserted a fake news story which celebrates the retirement of Dorothy Havens, the…

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 from hot metal and cold type to digital page layout.

Both Moore and Sugyiama worked on graphic designs for advertisements in The Washington Post. The open floorplan of the department later changed, adding cubicles.

TYPESETTER: a printer that keyed text into a machine that punched holes in paper tape. This tape was fed into a linotype machine to cast the text in hot metal for printing.

TO REPLACE A SLUG: to remove a slug, or line of text, from a galley, and replace it with a corrected slug.