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A photograph of a hat made of folded newspaper. The cap has a square top and slightly rounded, folded band.
A pressman's cap made from the front page of theWashington Post newspaper. These were used as protection for workers in the pressroom, shielding their heads from the ink and dust which fell from the presses overhead. Pressman's hats were temporary…

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 black and white photograph of a fair skinned teenage boy operating a linotype machine. In the background, an older fair-skinned man in overalls is seated at another linotype machine.
Many Deaf residential schools included print shops as part of the campus. Large and expensive linotype machines

A black and white photograph of a nineteenth century school printshop. The large room includes four rows of large wooden cases of type at left and several printing machines at right. Several fair-skinned young men are visible at the workspaces. At rear, a white presenting woman stands near the doorway. In the foreground, a bearded, fair-skin older man stands at a printing machine.
Many Deaf residential schools included print shops as part of the campus. In these shops students learned the printing trade and other vocational skills.

A pamphlet with line drawings and diagrams giving the multiple steps required to fold a newspaper sheet into a hat.
Newspapers like the Washington Post distributed pamphlets and instructions to visitors which detailed the process of folding a Pressman's cap. The instructions included line drawings and other images which represented each stage in the folding…

About.mp4
This video provides an overview of the project origins, including footage from the 2018 reunion held at Gallaudet University.

A scanned image of a newspaper front page. The letters and graphics are pressed into the paper creating a textured surface. The page features articles and images announcing the resignation of President Nixon.
A newspaper flong was made of pressed paper. It was created by pressing paper into the metal page, forming a negative mold. This created a textured surface, upon which metal was poured and creating a cast used in printing.

PrintersHatExplanation.mp4

PrintersHatProcess.mp4

Glossary - Typesetter.vtt
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.
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