Typography Tuesday: Mechanical Typesetting
The advertisement shown in the first two images was found in the Souvenir & Official Yearbook of the 90th Convention of the International Typographical Union. The convention was held in 1948 in Milwaukee. To view this yearbook in the UWM Archives ask for the Milwaukee Typographical Union, No. 23 records, circa 1859-1949.
The ad is for Intertype a typesetting machine company and features the Model G Mixer. The International Typesetting Machine Company was formed in 1912 by a group of former Merganthaler Linotype employees and investors who felt that there was potential for a competitor to stand up to Linotype Many of their first machines were remodeled Linotypes. The developments made by Intertype created a simpler machine with the same functionality as the Linotype while allowing for the ability to easily expand the machine, as seen in the Model G.
The bottom images are from a photograph taken by Roman B.J. Kwasniewski in our Milwaukee Polonia digital collection. Titled Men working in pressroom at Kuryer Polski Newspaper it shows a row of six Intertype machines. Kuryer Publishing was founded in 1885 by Michael Kruszka and grew to be a significant Milwaukee business after publishing the first Polish language daily in the United States. You can read more about Kruszka and Kuryer Publishing at the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee online. The photograph
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