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- Coal and Gravel Delivery
- RE: Two ears, etc.
- A little quieter these days
- 1100 2nd Street SW
- Shedshrinkflation
- The Long Shed ...
- Trestle
- Pass to the right
- Who's on Second?
- 2nd story story
- Did they get to eat it?
- Two ears, etc.
- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
- Did Mrs. Landis
- Wait. a. minute. here --
- Mrs. Landis
- Shades of Belushi
- Cranberry ... the condiment and the color
- The old man
- Plumbing?
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Printporium
Printer's Devil: 1942
September 1942. Richwood, West Virginia. "Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper." Photo by John Collier, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Texting
I hope she didn't get in trouble for using her iPhone while working!
Just waiting to be spotted!
This is probably the last day this young woman wore a white blouse to work in a print shop. As for the job case, she better mind her p's and q's!
Unfortunate name
This is surely the printer's angel.
California Job Case
The young lady is setting type from a lip front California Job Case, made by Hamilton. I first used one of these in about 1955. Still have several of them.
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