Library of Congress. Card Division. Printing of cards, setting type – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Library of Congress. Card Division. Printing of cards, setting type
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The record places this view inside the Library of Congress's Card Division, where workers set type for the catalog cards the library printed and distributed to other libraries. Printing cards was a central job for the library in its early twentieth-century years, when its cataloging output was sent across the country to libraries that used the cards to build their own catalogs. The caption card gives no date, so the photograph is best understood as a glimpse of that compositor's work, with hand-set type and printing equipment at the center of the scene.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Printing...; DC, Wash.--LC int.--Division; Libraries; Geog.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,235 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135960 |
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