[PW] ? display cases ...

[Andersen, Patricia M. (SDSM&T)]

My Dad was a linotype setter for the Sioux City Journal before he bought
his own small paper.  I grew up around the smell of hot lead and
newsprint. . .  And I also can read upside down and backwards pretty
well.

Patty

Patty Andersen, Director
Devereaux Library, SDSM&T
501 E. Saint Joseph St.
Rapid City, SD  57701-3995
(605) 394-1255 - voice
(605) 394-1256 - fax
Patricia.Andersen at sdsmt.edu


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Kay Lancaster
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:46 PM
To: list at project-wombat.org
Subject: Re: [PW] ? display cases ...


> make them to order with ornaments and such that detail
> someone's life . . . they look sort of like type cases (in 
> which you keep movable printing type, but those have almost all 
> the compartments the same size, and what

BTW, type cases came in quite a few different styles, with sizes 
of partitioned areas dependent on what was likely to go into 
them.  I learned to read upside down and backwards standing on a 
stool on the other side of table while my grandfather hand-set 
special headlines from a California Job case into a compositor 
stick.

Kay




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