Gallery: Inside the Hamilton Type Museum, Where You're the Printer
Jeff Dawson01AutoRace
The Hamilton's collection of historical advertising plates contains more than 6000 images. These blocks, carved from linoleum and mounted on wood, promote stock car racing from its glory days in the 1940s.
Jeff Dawson02Cases
These cabinets hold thousands of original designs that could be used to make type ranging from a quarter of an inch to 6 feet tall.
Jeff Dawson03Chandler&PricePress
A vintage Chandler & Price press in the main gallery of the museum gets regular use for posters and broadsides. Other than the rollers and drive belt this press is in the same original operating condition as it was following its manufacture in 1906.
Jeff Dawson04Georgie
Second-generation type cutter Geogianne Brylski Liesch stands at the 19th century pantograph table that her father Norbert Brylski began working on in the 1960s while working for Hamilton Manufacturing.
Jeff Dawson05GordonPress
Machines like this Gordon Press from the 1920s are the reason OSHA was invented. This one comes with a clutch that lets you disengage it from the steam powered engine that drove it.
Jeff Dawson06Horace
This multi-sheet broadside, printed by Hamilton Artist in Residence Tracy Honn, measures 60 x 72".
