[Nfb-history] FW: Posts from Fred's Head from APH for 11/02/2017

Fri Nov 3 14:05:58 UTC 2017

Hello Friends:

     I thought the following note from APH would be of interest.

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Robert

From: Fred's Head from APH [mailto:fredshead=aph.org at mail151.atl221.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of Fred's Head from APH
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Subject: Posts from Fred's Head from APH for 11/02/2017

The latest blog posts from Fred's Head from APH, a Blindness Blog. 

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In the 11/02/2017 edition:

*	Throwback Thursday Object: Cabinet of Printer's Type

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By Paul Ferrara on Nov 02, 2017 10:03 am

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Did you ever wonder why we call capital letters “upper case” and non-capitals “lower case”?  They are printing terms.  From the origins of printing, Mr. Gutenberg and all that, some poor fellow had to sit with a “case” of printing type and lay out the page in a frame called a “galley” one letter at a time.  The capitals were in the top drawers of the case and so on.  Our object today is a cabinet of printer’s type.  The angled top allowed the typesetter to place his galley frame there while he loaded it with type from the drawers, or maybe rest a drawer there while he unloaded a previously used arrangement.  APH used type in several ways.  In more modern times, we used traditional type to print labels on book spines and Talking Book records.  In our early days, we used specialized type to manufacture raised letter books, the tactile books that preceded braille.

(Photo Caption:  Forty-four inch tall wooden case with space for twenty-four drawers, each drawer is about an inch high and is divided into many small compartments filled with printer’s type.)

Micheal A. Hudson

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