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Composing Room in a Print Shop

Composing Room in a Print Shop
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of at work.

A real photo postcard showing three fellows standing around the type cases in the composing room of a print shop. The upper cases typically contained capital letters, and the lower cases contained small letters, leading to the terminology we still use today to refer to letter case.

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 Deborah Lundbech
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Very cool work photo. I always think of print shops as enormous - perhaps from family descriptions, but this is a tiny one. I wonder if it's a part of a small town newspaper.
Interesting about the upper/lower case terminology.
We have a lot of printers in my family tree, all working in London. My uncle, his father, my grandfather's uncle and other great uncles.
Printers - and blacksmiths! We have a lot of those too.
16 months ago.
 RicksPics
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It amazes me how adept those typesetters were, and doing it all upside down. And that typesetter on the right needs a wider platform to stand on. Yikes!
15 months ago. Edited 15 months ago.

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