Type
- Object Name:
- Type
- Object ID:
- 1979.051.01
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Printing type and holder, 106 pieces. Used for publishing the "Secret Messenger", or (later) "Weekly Messenger", a project of Charles Walker, Jr., Thomas Dudley, and other young men of Concord, NH.
1. Ten metal pieces of different sizes with engravings on them. Right angle bends on both ends.
2. Eleven flat metal pieces of different sizes with engravings on them. One is clearly marked with the word "Optimisms" on it.
3. Six lead bars with grooves impressed in them. Length: 2.1" x 0.850 x 0.1".
4. 72 pieces of lead type of different sizes.
5. Seven wooden printing blocks of multiple sizes. One block titled "The Burning of Chelsea," depicting a scene of a town on fire. 4.2" x 2.2" x 0.9". Second block depicts an engraving of a building, 4.2" x 1.9" x 0.9". The other five blocks are smaller and hard to decipher. - Material:
- Metal
Wood - Credit Line:
- Gift of Roberta Carr
- Subjects:
- Typesetting
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