Linotype Keyboard Facebook Post
In neighborhoods from New York’s Lower East Side to San Francisco’s Chinatown, twentieth century immigrants followed current events on the printed page.
Before today’s automated systems, printers arranged individual metal letter blocks to form text within a frame, and rolled ink across the arrangement to print each page. In the 1880s, printing the news became much quicker. A typist at a linotype keyboard automatically cast metal slugs of fully composed lines of text.
Note the Hebrew characters – this keyboard was used for Yiddish publications. In the early 1900s, American cities were host to multiple weekly Yiddish publications along with dozens of newspapers in Hebrew, Russian, English, German, and Ladino (a combination of Hebrew and Spanish).
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Photo Credit: Linotype keyboard, Philadelphia, ca. 1900. National Museum of American Jewish History, 1991.61.1
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Linotype Keyboard Facebook Post
Linotype Keyboard Facebook Post
In neighborhoods from New York’s Lower East Side to San Francisco’s Chinatown, twentieth century immigrants followed current events on the printed page. Before today’s automated systems, printers arranged individual metal letter blocks to form text within a frame, and rolled ink across the arrangement to print each page. In the 1880s, printing the news became much quicker. A typist at a linotype keyboard automatically cast metal slugs of fully composed lines of text. Note the Hebrew characters – this keyboard was used for Yiddish publications. In the early 1900s, American cities were host to multiple weekly Yiddish publications along with dozens of newspapers in Hebrew, Russian, English, German, and Ladino (a combination of Hebrew and Spanish). #OurSharedHeritage #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth Celebrate JAHM at JewishAmericanHeritage.org Photo Credit: Linotype keyboard, Philadelphia, ca. 1900. National Museum of American Jewish History, 1991.61.1
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