• Page 114 →After letterpress jobs were completed, the type would need to be re-distributed back into the proper case(s). Often there would be a mix of sizes, fonts, and styles and each had to be carefully returned to its proper type case. If the type was to be used again, it would be tied up and stored on a galley.
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Jocelyn Cohen re-distributing Munder type in the Helaine Victoria Press printshop.

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Jocelyn H. Cohen re-distributing type, Helaine Victoria Press, 1978. One of about ten black & white photographs from 1978 of Nancy Poore and Jocelyn Cohen in the print shop.
    From the Helaine Victoria Press Records, Special Collections, Smith College, catalog information:
    File name: smith_ssc_209_99S-31_b014_019
    Record number: 8299
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