One hundred key books on Australian printing history
Printing in Australia arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 when…
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Printing in Australia before WW I
A timeline of significant events in the history of printing in…
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Tales from the Print Room by Jeremy Chotzen
TALES FROM THE PRINT ROOM – PART 1 In the series…
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Mark Walker’sRecollection of the Commonwealth Government Printing Office –Darwin Sub-Branch – 1964 to 78
Officer-in-Charge Des Sydes talking with Mark Walker, Hand and Machine Compositor.…
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Diary of a Letterpress Printer, circa 1913
by James Cryer The Romance of Letterpress, The story behind the story…
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The Paper Man Herbert “Bert” Gilbert (1915 – 1985)
Bert’s employment as Sales Manager and Director at L.L. King &…
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Henry James Thitchener (1841-1911)
by Gillian Hamilton Henry James Thitchener Henry James Thitchener had the…
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P. Jeff Wallace “The Newspaper man”
Type in the Harbour (Article in The Nepean Times on Saturday, 4th August…
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Neville James – 13th June 1944 – 24th July 2017
In the year 2000, there was an advertisement in our “PENRITH…
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The Penrith Museum of Printing and its equipment has been featured in media, movies and books.
Here is a list of well-known media, in which the Penrith…
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