Special Meetup for Athenaeum Members
at Museum of Printing, Haverhill

If you love books, you will love the Museum of Printing! Join us for a guided tour of the current exhibits led by museum president and print industry scholar, Frank Romano.

The Museum of Printing is dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment and printing craftsmanship. In addition to many special collections and small exhibits, the Museum contains hundreds of antique printing, typesetting, and bindery machines, as well as a library of books and printing-related documents. The history of printing has changed dramatically during the last 200 years, moving away from letterpress printing to photographic and electronic technologies. We tell the stories of these changes using one of the world’s largest collections of printing and typesetting hardware and ephemera.

Frank Romano has spent more than 60 years in the printing industry, starting right out of high school at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York. He founded the publication TypeWorld, and has been the editor for many editions of an indispensable industry tool: Pocket Pal: The Handy Book of Graphic Arts Production. Over the years Frank has reached thousands of people through his consulting, writing, and speeches. He was a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Research Professor from Industry at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). He has the author of more than 60 books on topics related to the printing industry including most recently his trilogy: History of the Linotype Company, History of the Phototypesetting Era, and History of Desktop Publishing.

Tickets: $15
Limited to 15 Athenaeum members.