Browse Items (166 total)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/36807/archive/files/a445b587d11ee07d41e8288006884ba0.jpg
A science fiction anthology comic, Strange Adventures features a cover penciled and inked by renowned artists Gil Kane and Joe Giella. The cover telegraphs the issue's opening story, written by John Broome and drawn by the same artistic team, in…

2017-03-30-14-05.jpg
Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectric engineering student from Olympia, WA., holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016.

moran_hoe_stansbury_press.jpeg
An image of a Stansbury style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.

Copy of IMG_20161117_233157.jpg
The spindle, commonly referred to as the 'heart of the press' was the most difficult part to machine within the capabilities of the RIT shop. The 3 start, 2 inch pitch threat at the top of the spindle challenged the specialist at the shop. In order…

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/36807/archive/files/febf69ad521787d798a88dd15114b49c.jpg
Each of the Cary Collection's three volumes of George Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets has a fore-edge painting showing a foxhunting scene with some sort of comic mishap. Here a rider has flipped over this horse. Let's hope he wasn't…

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/36807/archive/files/5386f470e6e5c9d98197a42a8ae3de30.jpg
Typically found on large dictionaries, thumb indexes help readers quickly find the section of the book they need. In the case of this Linotype manual, readers can thumb to a specific typeface.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/36807/archive/files/72463880f0f208522538275c0807d709.jpg
Modern Man in the Making, p. 68-9. These charts from Modern Man in the Making show the connection between energy production, industrialization, and urbanization which, we saw earlier, is a sign of lower death rates. Constructing these charts and…

Acorn_CatalogueofNineteenthCentury.jpg
An image of a Smith style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/36807/archive/files/97eb3cbdf613d45f1e118f7a651f04eb.jpg
The first issue of DC's Showcase introduces "Fireman Farrell" in three stories written by Arnold Drake and drawn by John Prentice. While Fireman Farrell would appear periodically in later DC Comics titles, Showcase is today best remembered for its…

V47_1.png
Veronica Lodge from PEP #64, "No Body's Dummy".
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2