{"id":5112,"date":"2012-06-29T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:07:09","slug":"letterpress-library-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2012\/06\/29\/letterpress-library-christmas-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Letterpress Library Christmas Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It may be 90 degrees outside today, but we’re too excited to wait until December to share our latest project – letterpress printing<\/a> our Library Christmas card!<\/p>\n

Back in 2010, the Zaner-Bloser Company<\/a> donated a rich collection of 19th and early 20th <\/a>century penmanship materials<\/a> to the University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library’s Special Collections<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition to original artwork by the masters of the Golden Age of Penmanship, the collection also includes some of the printing blocks used to publish their work.<\/p>\n

We’ve partnered with Samantha Urbanick<\/strong> of Clarks Summit-based letterpress studio Hand Deliver Press<\/a><\/strong> to put some of those printing blocks back in action.<\/p>\n

Our first project, the Library’s 2012 Christmas card, uses a Zaner-Bloser printing block from Christmas 1912. The block is based on a pen and ink drawing by master penman E. L. Brown<\/a> and was used in the publication of the December 1912 issue<\/a> of the professional penmanship journal The Business Educator<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out our photo set<\/a> and video<\/a> to see Hand Deliver Press and our Zaner-Bloser block in action!<\/p>\n

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Samantha Urbanick of Hand Deliver Press, with the Weinberg Memorial Library's first letterpress printed Christmas card<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It may be 90 degrees outside today, but we’re too excited to wait until December to share our latest project – letterpress printing our Library Christmas card! Back in 2010, the Zaner-Bloser Company donated a rich collection of 19th and early 20th century penmanship materials to the University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library’s Special Collections.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[603,602,463,526,549,725,578],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections-2","category-friends","tag-hand-deliver-press","tag-letterpress","tag-special-collections","tag-university-of-scranton","tag-weinberg-memorial-library","tag-wmldigserv","tag-zaner-bloser-penmanship-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}