These photographs were published in the US without copyright notice at a time when such notice was required to secure copyright. They therefore passed into the public domain upon initial publication. This digital reprint remains in the public domain.
Photographs of the hot metal composing room of the Ogden Standard-Examiner newspaper, circa 1962. Based on material found with them, these photographs were published by the Ogden Standard-Examiner and distributed either by the Ludlow Typograph Company or by Hammond Machinery Builders to promote the "hot metal paste-up" system of display ad makeup. The photographs concentrate on the Ludlow Typograph and associated machines (with Linotypes in the background). Machines shown include: Photo 1 - Ludlow Shell-Hi Slug Shear (front left), Ludlow Typograph Machine, Model M (right, flanked by Ludlow Cabinets), Ludlow Supersurfacer (center back). Photo 2 - Rouse Vertical Miterer. Photo 3 - Rouse Vertical Miterer (left) and Hammond Glider Trim-O-Saw (right). Photo 4 - Ludlow Model M from back. Photo 5 - Ewald Plunger Cleaner (table, left) and Twin Oaks Spaceband Cleaner (table, right); these are both Linotype ancillary machines, a Linotype (left) and the back of a Ludlow Typograph Model L (center). Photos 6, 7, and 8 - example of hot metal paste-up; in the final photograph the stripped slugs and cuts are being scraped into a bin for subsequent remelt.
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Scanned at 1200dpi RGB; reduced to 600dpi RGB and converted lossily to JPEG.