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DPN - Mayflower.mp4
Deaf printers joined students, faculty, and community members at the Mayflower Hotel on March 6, 1988 as part of the DPN protest.

DPN Clip 2.mp4
Student protesters shut down the campus, blocking the entrance with signs and chanting for a Deaf president.

Clip Vol 6.mp4

A color photograph of the exterior of The Washington Post building. The building has a concrete exterior and is eight floors tall with large windows lining each floor; there are two flags hanging above the front entrance doors.
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…

A scanned image of the cover of a booklet. Text reads "Facts about the International Typographical Union for all who would like to know democratic trade unionism since 1852" and "1973"
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…

An image of an article with the heading Facts Bearing on the School Training of Deaf Printing Apprentices.
The article gives an overview of the context of industrial training in printing at Deaf residential schools in the United States. It summarizes the similarities and differences between institutions in terms of training and equipment and makes…

A close-up color photograph of a bin protruding from a black cover on the wall. Releasing from this black cover and sliding into the bin is a printed newspaper sheet.
Another stage in the technology of newspaper printing involved the use of phototypesetting in the Composing Room. Text was delivered from the news team to the dark room, an enclosed space with minimal light exposure for image processing. After the…

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.
After the page components were designed and printed, workers in the composing room would combine the text and graphics into a page layout. Advertisement pages were known to be complex and involved great attention to the details of spacing and…

A black and white photograph of the front page of the newspaper in hot metal, composed of blocks of lead type.
Each newspaper page was made-up and locked into a metal frame. The separate galleys of lead typeface and imagery permitted printers to proofread a test print, identifying any errors and easily substituting slugs from the blocks of text.

A color photograph of two fair-skinned older men smiling widely for the picture while standing in a hallway. Both men’s hands hold up a large piece of paper with several indistinguishable illustrations. One man has a red sweatshirt with a gray t-shirt underneath it, jeans, and a baseball cap. The other man wears a plaid suit and tie, his glasses perched atop his head.
Well-known cartoonist, Herb Block (Herblock) produced editorial illustrations for The Washington Post for more than 70 years. Deaf employees like Buemi recall retrieving Block's graphics and rushing them to be printed.
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