Letterpress Printing is Full of Characters

Locations
Call Number: Art Print
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Art Shelf 8-week checkout	Art Print	8-week checkout	On Shelf

Letterpress print. Hatch Show Print Established in 1879, Hatch Show Print reflects the history of American advertising and entertainment, as one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America. Each Hatch Show Print poster is a unique creation, individually handcrafted and inked onto paper in a technique that dates back several centuries. For much of the twentieth century, the shop's vibrant posters served as a leading advertising medium for Southern entertainment, ranging from vaudeville and minstrel shows to magicians and opera singers, from Negro League baseball games to B-movies. Today, musicians, and entertainers from around the world call on Hatch Show Print to design and print iconic posters using the shop's incredible archive of wood type and imagery. www.hatchshowprint.com

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

don't like this submitted by .-.-.-. on June 15, 2020, 2:51pm I really don't like these shades of colors. It's boring and dull, nothing special to this painting. 2/5 stars.

Bad submitted by maxence07 on June 15, 2020, 4:56pm Bad, I dislike the characters in this picture

Garage submitted by Whitetnchina on July 22, 2020, 3:46pm Looks like an image I'd put in the garage.

I'm a sucker for typography. submitted by lisa on July 23, 2020, 12:16pm What can I say? 4/5.

nice! submitted by manz on July 24, 2020, 10:19am I love the work that HATCH does!