The Visual Arts Committee of The University of Tennessee is presenting a
talk by Jim Moran, Director of the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
in Twin Rivers, Wisconsin, and professor of printing history at the
University of Minnesota, on Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. in the
University Center Auditorium. Moran is also going to do printing
demonstrations during the day. The University Center is located at 1502
Cumberland Ave. on the UT campus.
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to
the preservation, study, production, and printing of wood type. With 1.5
million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of
patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood-type
collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum also has an
amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s; all of
the equipment necessary to make wood type and to print with it; and
equipment used in the production of hot-metal type, tools of the craft,
and rare type-specimen catalogs.
The Hamilton Manufacturing Company was founded in 1880 and became the
largest wood-type producer in the country. During its 130 years, the
company has manufactured a wide variety of machines and now produces steel
laboratory equipment.
Moran runs letterpress workshops, archives the collection, and maintains
the museum on a daily basis. Previously he had volunteered at Hamilton and
donated presses and equipment from his Green Bay printing firm, Moran’s
Quality Print Shop, where he worked as apprentice, pressman, partner and
owner with his father and grandfather for more than 35 years.
The event is open to the public and free.
Note: Earlier announcements of the event stated that it would be held at
5:30 p.m. Please check with the Office of Student Activities, (865)
974-5455, to clarify the time of the presentation.
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