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Automobile Driving Museum Director Visits the Printing Museum Leslie Lewis, Executive Director of the Automobile Driving Museum, El Segundo, California, visited the International Printing Museum with her family. Coincidentally it was the birthday weekend for her husband Dennis whose father was a lifetime Linotype Operator. Dennis described watching his Dad work at the machine as he was growing up. Dennis would do many odd tasks, especially sweeping up the shop. More . . .
Thunderbird Club Visits the Carson, California, July 12, 2007 Twenty-two members of the Early Birds Thunderbird Club of Southern California from Orange, California, visited our Museum. They were treated to a special Ben Franklin Show with Phil Soinski, an extended tour of the Main Gallery by Peter Small and then a catered lunch. After lunch, they enjoyed having their names set on the Linotype by Luis Garcia and printed by Dr. Leland Whitson. Assistant Director Rachelle Woo Chuang also showed visitors about the Book Arts Institute. More . . .
A Printer’s Patriotic Declaration
It’s a document every American can recognize, and one that stirs national pride and identity. Engrossed (written in a large and readable script) on parchment, with the clear signature of John Hancock, Franklin and 54 others, the image of the Declaration of Independence is familiar to all of us. But did you know that the written and signed document on parchment is not the original copy of July 4th, 1776? More . . .
Dickens Day Most Enjoyable and Successful (December 2007)
A Busy and Dusty Docent Saturday (October 2007)
Copperheads and Simpletons: How a Press in California Participated in the Civil War
The Book Club of California Lecture Flowers from the Printers’ Garden Long before the invention of moveable type scribes incorporated rubrication and illumination as well as illustrations produced using carved wood blocks to embellish and enhance their work.
Docent of the Year, Ray Ballash: A Passion for Cast Iron (April 2007)
UCSD’s Sixth College Unveils Antique Platen Press (April 2007)
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The Museum In the News Articles about the museum from the local press, available in pdf format. Inventive Lesson: Carson fifth-graders learn from a Founding Father (November 2007)
Carson Print Museum Is Called World’s Best (July 2005)
Ben Franklin is alive and well in the South Bay. On any Saturday and with an appointment weekdays, one of the country’s founding fathers—and one of its first printers—can be found giving tours at the International Printing Museum, called the best print museum in the world, by the Smithsonian Institution. More . . .
Nine Year Press Run Ends
Letters, Printing Made Impression on Curator (March 1991)
Impressive Display Museum Dedicated to Printed Word (October 1988)
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The Wayzgoose Gazette Back issues of the Wayzgoose Gazette are available here in pdf format.
Includes articles on the Leather Apron Guild: 2007 Docent Doings; Luis García: Master of the Mergenthaler Linotype; A Dickens of a Holiday Celebration; Dr. Miles, A Proof Press and the Selling of Nervine; and The Doctor Is In: Dr. Franklin Miles Visits IPM.
Volume 9, Number 2,
Includes Peter Shoeffer: From the Shadow of Gutenberg to Greatness, Gutenberg’s Printing Press to Be Unveiled in New Display.
In this issue, articles include The Smith Washington Press: Striking gold in the California Motherlode, Letters from the History in Motion Outreach Program, The New Printing Museum Display in Carson, and Curator’s Notes.
Volume 8, Number 3, The Printing Museum Finds a Temporary Home in the City of Carson, Grand re-opening Celebration for Carson Site, A Tribute to Wally Dawes, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 8, Number 2,
Coming soon.
In this issue, Lunch with the McNally’s: The Acquisition of a Ramage and Other Precious Gems, Notes from the Curator.
Volume 7, Number 3, April 1998 Features include History in Motion: A Museum on Wheels, Letters from Our Recent Outreaches, Printing Museum’s Building and Endowment Campaign, Notes from the Curator.
Volume 7, Number 2,
Advice on Eating Elephants, or How to Move a Printing Museum, Printing Museum’s building and Endowment fund Gets Underway, and A Note from the Director to Our Friends.
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1997
Volume 6, Number 3 and 4,
Articles include The Power of the Press, Pages of Discovery: Frankin’s Science Tour, Kent Johnson’s Recollections on the Building of the Franklin Electrostatic Generator, and Under New Donor Program, Dave Peat of Indianaplis Becomes First “Lifetime Friend of the Printing Museum.”
Volume 6, Number 2, August 1996 Read about The Columbian Press: “A Symbol of American Power,” A Brief Description of the Unique 1824 Columbian in the Ernest A. Lindner Collection at the Printing Museum, and Franklin’s Wayzgoose: The Annual Open House at the Printing Museum.
Volume 6, Number 1, April 1996
This issue includes Ottmar Mergenthaler Finally Receives His Honor from the United States Post Office, Frederick Ives and the Beginnings of the Halftone Dot, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 5, Number 4, Winter 1995 Read how Gold Is Discovered Again in California’ s Historic Motherlode as Museum Acquires a Rare Ruggles Press.
Volume 5, Number 2 & 3,
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1995 Articles on R. Hoe and the Cylinder Press, Typeslingers and Taverns: The Country Newspaper Shop, and Printing Museum Receives Two Distinguished Honors.
Volume 4, Number 2 & 3, This double issue includes Joseph Thorne and the Typesetting Race, Early Book Press Donated by Roger & Paline Poirier, Lights, Camera, Action, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1994
Articles on The Dream That Produced a Legend, Makers of Letters, and Leland “Doc” Whitson Donates Press.
Volume 3, Number 3 & 4,
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 1993 Learn about the Dr. Miles and the Proof Press, The End of Typeslinging at Rafu Shimpo, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1993 Includes articles on The Evolution of the Linotype, Heritage Theater Highlights, Friends of the Printing Museum Sponsor Characters of History Exhibit, and Notes from the Curator.
In this issue, Museum Acquires Adams Acorn Press, Heritage Theater, B. Franklin Printer, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1991 In this issue, On the Trail of a Hoe, Museum Library of Printing History, and Notes from the Curator.
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1991
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On December 15th over 60 visitors were treated to a very special performance of the Dickens Christmas Carol by Phil Soinski, shown here with Dr. Leland Whitson in his guise of Dr. Franklin Miles. 
Some eighteen Leather Apron Docent Guild members, three staff, and three youngsters helped dust, wipe, clean, vacuum and polish all the equipment and displays in the Main Gallery at the International Printing Museum after installation of new floor covering. 
Recently Huell Howser of California’s Gold on PBS featured the International Printing Museum. For the past 22 years, his show has featured great and unusual treasures throughout California. Visitors to the Printing Museum have suggested, for 15 years now, that we get Huell to visit our museum. Surely the Printing Museum is part of California’s Gold. 
Picture a 3,000 pound cast iron beast, standing 6’8’ high, 4’6’ wide with a belly of lead, arms that lift and descend, and a strange keyboard for your fingers to tickle. This is a Linotype Machine, the typecasting machine invented in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler in Baltimore to solve the age-old dilemma of how to set printer’s type mechanically. 
Last fall UCSD’s Sixth College became the proud owner of a Pearl Improved No. 11 platen press, manufactured in 1909. Thanks to the cooperation of the International Printing Museum’s director, Mark Barbour, the quick thinking of San Diego Books Arts member Kathy Miller, immediate action by UCSD Special Collections Librarian Lynda Claassen, and the sight-unseen acceptance by Sixth College Provost Gabriele Wienhausen, Walter Chisholm’s press made its way from his Chula Vista garage to the Smart Classroom at Sixth. 
Ben Franklin dreamed up more than 50 inventions. His ingenuity and signature stamped the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and several other historic documents. But he never had to quiet down a raucous auditorium of Carson fifth-graders. 
BUENA PARK—
Mark Lee Barbour was a seventh-grader when he developed a passion for the way letters of the alphabet were formed. “I could stare at a letter for hours,” he remembers. “I guess I see letters as an art form. I’m totally awed at its beauty.” 
BUENA PARK — Ernest A. Lindner is a big game hunter. But the beasts he stalks are mechanical in nature, the hulking black machines of his father’s trade: Antique iron printing presses. 
In this issue, Printing Museum Forced to Relocate Due to Freeway Expansion, Printing Museum to Host APA Wayzgoose, Lifetime Friends of the Printing Museum, and A Curator’s Adventures on the New England Throughway. 
This issue includes Ts’ai Lun’s Forgotten Contribution, David Peat Donates Rare Books, Pages of Adventure: The Reading Tour, and A Curator’s Journey to the Cradle of Printing.
In this special double issue: Senefelder and His Stones from Sohlnhofen, Stone Lithography at Annual Gala, The Museum Research Library of Printing History, A British View of Printing History, and Notes from the Curator.
Includes articles about the “Grasshopper Press,” volunteers at the museum, and Notes from the Curator.