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Author:

Rumble, Walker.

Title:

The swifts : printers in the age of typesetting races / Walker Rumble.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xvii, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Typesetting--United States--History--19th century.
Typesetting--History--United States--History--19th century.
Printers--United States.--Biography.
Printers--History--United States--History--19th century.
Printing industry--History--Effect of technological innovations on--United States--History--19th century.
Typesetting machines--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.

Contents:

A Gutenberg legacy -- The Arensberg wager and the swifts -- The gendered machine of Timothy Alden -- Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1 -- Joseph McCann takes the swifts to the show -- Fast women : the Boston typesetting races of 1886 -- Mr. Mergenthaler's revolution -- Art and the swifts : shopfloor design from Harpel to Rogers -- The death of a velocipede.

ISBN:

9780813921617 (alk. paper)
0813921619 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50198535

LCCN:

2002010957

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)