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TWO hundred and fifty years ago the first edition of the Chronicle appeared on the streets. It’s a miracle of endurance that ever since, every…

Watch butterflies leave their cocoons, learn about the revolutionary printing press, visit a wine cellar, or just stroll along the Moselle

Book Review: History of the Ludlow Typograph

July 29, 1922 MAIL TRIBUNE DELUGED WITH OFFERS OF DOGS Every cloud has its silver lining, and every loss has, we suppose, its gain. At any rate, The Mail Tribune, robbed of $30 worth of Lino...

July 28, 1922 MAIL TRIBUNE BROKEN INTO BY NIGHT PROWLER Among the many rumors flying about town this morning was one that the Mail Tribune had been wrecked by a band of hooded vandals, and t...

From catering to British merchants in pre-Independence India to servicing the multinational brands today, Kanpur’s Solar Press (established as Star Press in 1904) has an enthralling history spanning more than a century.

Smithsonian magazines\u00a0Museum Day will return in September, giving guests free access to museums, zoos\u00a0and cultural centers all over the country.

Life as an adult began to take shape for Mel Callahan following his graduation from Sullivan High School in the spring of 1961. He was hired as a printers devil with a local newspaper, performing a variety of tasks from cleaning floors to getting supplies such as ink. Having developed an interest in the print trades, he enrolled in a Linotype training course at the University of Missouri.

For half a millennium, a printing press using movable type was the main way of transferring words to paper. Its rise was spectacular and well-known, tha...

Arnold Skolnick, who with only a few days to work designed what became one of the most familiar pop-culture images of its time, the poster for the ori