Oat City
Essays 
in
 Printing
History

"Ready, Go, Set!" 
American Heritage of Invention & Technology
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Spring (Vol. 16, No. 4) 2001, pp. 40–43.

"The Race Is to the Swift: The 1886 National Typesetting Championship," Chicago History, Summer (Vol. XXVIII, No 1) 1999, pp. 44-53.
 

 

"A Showdown of 'Swifts': Women Compositors, Dime Museums, and the Boston Typesetting Races of 1886," New England Quarterly, December (Vol. LXXI, No 4) 1998, pp. 615-628.

 

 

"Strategies of Shopfloor Inclusion: The Gender Politics of Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1, 1868-1872," Printing History, 35 (Vol. XVIII, No 1) 1997, pp. 13-25.

"From the Shopfloor to the Show: Joseph W. McCann, Typesetting Races, and Expressive Work in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of Popular Culture, Fall (32.2) 1998, pp. 87-101.

"A Time of Giants: Speed Composition in Nineteenth-Century America," Printing History, 28 (Vol. XIV, No 2) 1993, pp. 14-21.

 

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