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A color photograph of a fair skinned older man as he stands working at a large composing room in front of a cutting machine. He wears a white, short sleeved collared shirt tucked into jeans and glasses.
Among the tools used by staff in the Composing Room were cutting tools. Cutters were used to trim type and images into sections to be arranged into page columns. These sections would then be adhered to a paper board and the completed page would be…

A color photograph of two fair skinned men between middle age and older age as they smile faintly at the camera. One man with gray hair wears an orange short sleeved collared shirt; his hands hold onto his glasses as he props himself up on the table. The other man has brown hair and a mustache; he wears a striped short sleeved collared shirt and is sat at a table. The background reveals a workspace room with many shelves for storage as well as tables.
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Brian_Brizendine_Why_the_Post_1.mp4

Deaf Community at Work_1.mp4

Dennis_Legler_Play_and_Camaraderie_at_Work_1.mp4

Sue_Ayers_Play_and_Camaraderie_at_Work_1.mp4

Sue_Ayers_Work_Schedule_1.mp4

A color photograph of a small group of people sat at a long table, each with their own large, boxed computer monitor and keyboard with a mouse. On the closest end of the table is a fair skinned middle-aged woman; next to her are two fair-skinned middle-aged men; the other end of the table sits another fair-skinned middle-aged woman. All individuals are focused on typing on the computer.
The transition to computing in printing introduced new technologies to the workspaces at The Washington Post.

A scanned image of two pages of the newsletter ShopTalk. The article features black and white photographs. The first of a white middle aged woman, the other two of groups of people standing on stage in front of a crowd.
The press department of The Washington Post produced a weekly newsletter for sharing information about the paper and it’s employees. Issues of ShopTalk included announcements about workplace changes, covered events held at work, and shared updates on…

A black and white photograph of a line of fair-skinned middle to older aged men as they each sit at their corresponding linotype machines, each of their hands typing onto the keyboard on the machine in front of them. Two of the men are turned toward one another using sign language.
Linotype operators received copy from writers and keyed stories into linotype machines. The machine used molten lead to create slugs, lines of text which would then be arranged into blocks known as galleys, forming columns of newspaper text.
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