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An illustration of an air-brushed eye from a pamphlet about air brushing for painting

Many collections held by the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History document late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...

A small thermal printer producing a time badge.

Invention stories are often about new ideas that arise when inventors recognize solutions to problems they are experiencing. But this invention story...

Detail from seven groups of script characters, broken into groups A–G, show all of the characters in the Devanagari font

In the early 1930s, India was in the midst of great change: politically, to end British rule; economically, with industrialization; and educationally...

Advertisement for a Linotype machine that shows a photo of the machine with 57 red lines coming out to the margins, noting individual features of the Linotype.

In the April 1918 edition of The Inland Printer, there was an advertisement for Linotype Instruction by the Empire Mergenthaler Linotype School...

Patent model for tabletop portable printing press invented by JJ C Smith

This is a guest post by Joan Boudreau, Curator, Graphic Arts Collection, National Museum of American History.2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the...