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A scanned image of the letter which welcomes Golightly to the Union.
Deaf printers obtained membership to the International Typographical Union by demonstrating their skills and completing training in a printing shop.

A color photograph of a fair-skinned older man standing in a large room with his back to the camera. He wears a plaid shirt tucked into jeans and a baseball cap. He is holding a long black plate against a large, gray machine used for film output.
After pages were completed in the Composing Room, negative copies were created in the Film Output machine. These negatives were used to create the metal plates used in the printing machines.

A color photograph of two fair-skinned, middle or older aged men as they sit in an office space in the corner of a room. The man sitting at the desk on the right wears glasses and a plain white T-shirt, and he leans against the desk whilst smoking a cigarette. The man on the left sitting at an adjacent table wears a white, collared button down shirt and baseball cap; he also holds a cigarette.
A sign of the era, smoking was permitted in this part of the Chairman’s office. Both Deaf and hearing coworkers occupied this space on breaks.

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…

A black and white photograph of a large workspace with many large printing presses. There are several fair skinned older men scattered around the room, their hands on the various machinery as they work and chat with each other.
Printers in the Composing Room chat as they stand near large presses. In the foreground, one printer rests his hand on a truck.

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.

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 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 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…

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…
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