birdlab: an open process initiative

blackbird founders archive (vols.1–21)

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Header Photos

The header crops quoted from the images below are here to remind us of the long tradition of publishing of which we are a part; this history, and an awareness of the materiality of publishing (including online publishing), is a growing emphasis of Blackbird‘s professional training of interns and graduate students.

Linotype_operators_of_the_Chicago_Defender
Linotype Operators of the Chicago Defender, 1941
Ruth Ellis, printing press 1940
Ruth Ellis, lifelong activist, at the printing press, 1940
typesetters_1910
U.S. Government Typesetters, 1910
An eighth grade girl uses a printing press in 1910.
An eighth grade girl uses a printing press in 1910. University of Chicago Lab School archive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#mediaviewer/File:The
The Miehle P.P. & Mfg. Co. 1905
German Typesetters (date unknown)
German Typesetters (date unknown)

 

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Hoe’s Six Cylinder Printing Press, 1864.