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A color photograph shows a large, red machine with clear glass through the center that reveals the mechanics of the machine as well as a stack of printed newspapers within the machine. On the left of this machine is a series of different-colored buttons. Both sides of the machine have yellow caution tape with the words “STAY CLEAR” printed in bold red lettering.
After they were printed, folded and stacked in this large newspaper press, the completed papers would next go to the mail room where ads and inserts would be added.

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.

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.

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A black and white photograph of a fair skinned older man as he works on a front page of a newspaper on a Make-up table. He wears glasses and a collared button down shirt with an apron.
In the Composing Room the pages of the newspaper came together in Make-up. Here printers would use a mark-up sheet prepared by the editors to lay out the galleys of text and other elements to form a page of the newspaper. The lead blocks were locked…

A black and white photograph of a group of fair skinned middle aged men and women, gathered in front of several linotype machines. They are dressed casually. In the background are several people moving and working.
During breaks Deaf printers often gathered in their workspaces for conversations in ASL about work and other topics. This opportunity for frequent gathering and social networking was a benefit of working at The Washington Post. The large number of…

A black and white photograph of a line of fair skinned middle to older aged men as they sit in front of their corresponding linotype machines. Some of them engage with each other in conversation; others are mid-typing on the machines.
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, forming columns of newspaper text.

A black and white photograph of a large linotype machine with wires and various mechanics protruding from it, including a keyboard, placed upon a slightly taller platform on the floor.
The use of punched tape with linotype machines reduced the need for multiple linotype operators. Rather than multiple operators typing text into the keyboard at each linotype machine, the text was read into the machine using punched paper tape. This…

A color photograph of a large room filled with machinery and heavy tables; in the center of this room are two massive linotype machines with black protruding mechanics, and cords which plug into the ceiling of the room. Two chairs lie empty in front of these machines.
For most of the twentieth century, newspapers were formed from text blocks created on large linotype machines. Newspapers would have many such machines. As printing techniques changed, linotype was used less.
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