Printing Technology, Paper, Layout and Design

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Allen, John E.  Newspaper Designing.  New York: Harper, 1947.

Arnold, Edmund.  Functional Newspaper Design.  New York: Harpers, 1956.

Bagdikian, Ben.  The Information Machines.  New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

Barnhurst, Kevin G., and John Nerone.  The Form of News: A History.  New York: Guilford Press, 2001. (newspaper layout and design)

Beyrouti, Nouri.  “The History and Development of Newspaper Electronic Pagination Systems.”  PhD dissertation, New York University, 1990.

Bowman, Bob.  “Southland Papermills, Inc.: The South’s Pioneer Newsprint Manufacturer.” East Texas Historical Review 40:2 (2002): 16-33.

Davis, Erin K. “Printing at the Fair: The Printing Exhibits at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition.”  Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 99 (September 2005): 427–44.

Dreier, Thomas.  The Power of Print- and Men.  Brooklyn: Merganthaler Linotype, 1936. (typesetting and printing machines)

Editor and Publisher. “Industry Salutes Linotype’s 50 Years.”   Editor and Publisher 11 July 1936.  Special insert.

Ellis, L. Ethan.  Newsprint: Producers, Publishers, Political Pressures.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

Everett, George.  “Printing Technology as a Barrier to Multi-Column Headlines, 1850-1895.”  Journalism Quarterly 53 (Autumn 1976): 528-531.

Goble, George C.  “The Obituary of a Machine: The Rise and Fall of Ottmar Mergenthaler’s Linotype and U.S. Newspapers.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1984.

Hoe, Robert.  A Short History of the Printing Press.  New York: Hoe, 1902.

Hohenberg, John.  The New Front Page.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

Huss, Ruchard E.  The Development of Printers’ Mechanical Typesetting Methods.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973.

Hutt, Allen.  The Changing Newspaper: Typographic Trends in Britain and America, 1622-1972.  London: Gordon Fraser, 1973.

Kelber, Harry, and Carl Schlesinger.  Union Printers and Controlled Automation.  New York: Free Press, 1967.

Makala, Jeffrey Michael. “Print on Demand: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in the United States Printing Trades and Publishing Industry, 1812-1860.” PhD dissertation, University of South Carolina. 2018.

Marzio, Peter C.  The Men and Machines of American Journalism.  Washington DC: National Museum of History and Technology, 1973.

McMurtrie, Douglas.  History of Printing in the United States.  New York: Bowker, 1936.

Moses, Richard P.  “A Tapestry of Change: Printing Technology and Publishing in the 19th and 20th Centuries.”  PhD dissertation, Temple University, 1998.

Smith, David C.  “Wood Pulp and Newspapers, 1867-1900.”  Business History Review 38 (August 1964): 328-345.

Sutton, Albert A.  The Design and Makeup of a Newspaper.  New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948.

Tucker, Stephen D.  “History of R. Hoe & Company, 1834-1865.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 82, pt. 2 (1973): 351-453.

Weeks, Lyman Horace.  History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916.  New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. (reprint of 1916 edition)

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