Printing blocks
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Chinese Block Printing, 868, 1966-1971
Item — Painting 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
"Graphic Communications Through the Ages" commemorates significant milestones in the history of communications technologies: the development of paper and character forms, typography design, and printing. The paintings were commissioned in 1966 by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, who employed three internationally-known historical illustrators to produce the series: Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish, Jr.(1930-1992)....
Dates:
1966-1971
Photoengravings used in The Inland Printer
Collection
Identifier: CSC-0127
Overview
Photoengravings used in The Inland Printer, circa 1918-1937 contains printing blocks of images that have appeared in various issues of the periodical, The Inland Printer. The majority of the blocks is related to the history and trade of printing, and is identified as appearing in the periodical. Others are unidentified and not confirmed as being used in the periodical.
Dates:
1918 - 1937
Found in:
Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Ramikin printing blocks
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006630941]
Identifier: RITArc-0322
Overview
Set of printing blocks, each with a portrait of a faculty member, administrator, or benefactor, most likely used in the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute yearbook, the Ramikin.
Dates:
circa 1916-1944
Found in:
RIT Archives
