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December 26

Any former employees, who for nostalgic reasons entered the cavernous but empty premises of the Chicago firm of typefounders, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, on this day in 1933, would have felt a touch of sadness. Gone were the rows of typecasting machines which had produced so many of the popular types of American printers over […]