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Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

About Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum was founded in 1999 and is located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States. The museum is run by the Two Rivers Historical Society. It is dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type used in letterpress printing. The museum is located in a factory building of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company founded in 1880 by J.E. Hamilton. The museum has a collection of over 1.5 million pieces in more than 1,000 styles of wood type. Also included are presses and vintage prints. The museum holds many workshops and conferences throughout the year and regularly welcomes groups of students from universities from across the United States.

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Printing museum
Founded
2000
Annual visitors
5K
5,000

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  1. Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Two Rivers01Two RiversAlorrigan (talk) (Transferred by rohith_goura/Originally uploaded by Alorrigan) · Public domain
  2. Wood Type Museum Intertype typesetting machine (2)02Wood Type Museum Intertype typesetting machine (2)Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL · CC BY-SA 2.0
  3. Wood Type Museum Linotype typesetting machine (2)03Wood Type Museum Linotype typesetting machine (2)Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL · CC BY-SA 2.0
  4. French Clarendon wood type04French Clarendon wood typeJessica Fiess-Hill · CC BY 2.0
  5. Printing from wood type at the Hamilton Museum05Printing from wood type at the Hamilton MuseumJoel Gillman from Minneapolis, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. Hamilton Wood Type ^ Printing Museum- Two Rivers, WI06Hamilton Wood Type ^ Printing Museum- Two Rivers, WIMichael Steeber from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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