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...evening on which Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865, is in the collection. It was not learned until late in the morning of that day that the play was to be honored by the presence of the President. Mr. Polkinhoru, manager of the theatre, immdiately asked the printer to alter the bill and to add a patriotic verse. This was impossible, but some playbills were changed to suit the manager's demand, and of these several reprints have been made. All the steps in the changing of this bill are shown in the collection. Two copies of the playbills distributed...
Birthday for Adolph S. Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...
...advertisement was indeed written in TIME style. It was indeed written by TIME staff. And furthermore it did not cost R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1?. TIME, proud of its new printer, was eager to introduce its 180,000 subscribers & newsstand buyers to the potent organization that prints the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the telephone book of many a U. S. city--and TIME. Let Dissenter Malcolm reread the advertisement; he will see that it did carry "its legitimate and proper signature." The advertisement was signed, thus...
Four volumes of printed letters, with the originals inserted, corrected proof sheets of "Ferishtah's Fancies," with a long letter to the printer, a manuscript of "Helen's Tower," and the last part of a facsimile of "One Word More," Browning's epilogue to his "Men and Women," make up the rest of the poet's works on exhibition...
...chief modern English presses. Among the most valuable editions is a beautiful edition of Chaucer, bound in white pigskin, and printed on vellum, an edition of which only 13 are in existence. Another valuable and interesting book is an edition of Emerson, presented to the Library by the printer, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1908. On the inside cover he writes...