printing museum LbNA #45131
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 30, 2008 |
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| City: | north andover |
| County: | Essex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | abrunsit  |
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| Found by: | Troop 60178 |
| Last found: | Oct 11, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Dec 30, 2008 |
From the parking lot.
Look on the left side of the building and you will see a little hut.
Walk towards the hut to the back left side.
Look to your left and you will see two pipes.
Take three steps towards them.
Then look towards your right,
Next to a tree that’s split into two.
The letterbox will be inches away.
History of my letterbox
This museum is a non-profit organization, incorporated in 1978 as The Friends of the Museum of Printing, Inc. The history of printing has changed dramatically within the past 100years. This museum tells the stories of these changes using one of the world’s largest collections of printing hardware. The ground floor contains two 90-foot galleries, a large lobby, and a library with access to the library’s archival stacks. The Robert L. Richter Memorial Library is named after one of the two people that began the museum. It has about 5000 volumes, and 3000 of them have been put into electronic files. There’s also the Mergenthaler Font Library, Ludlow Typograph Matrices Library, Intertype Photosetter Font Library, the Photon Font Library, and the Machinery and Product Library. Also the second floor contains a large meeting room, and offices. The first gallery has a timeline of the manufacturing of the letters. The timeline goes back to about 500 years. In the timeline you see how it goes from hot-metal typesetting to linecasting machines. You also get to see how they tried using linecasting technology to phototypesetting. It shows the strike on typesetters to make an inexpensive type. It then goes to where Massachusetts hi-tech companies played a higher role. The last part of it shows how everything is digital with a modern large formatted printer.
Look on the left side of the building and you will see a little hut.
Walk towards the hut to the back left side.
Look to your left and you will see two pipes.
Take three steps towards them.
Then look towards your right,
Next to a tree that’s split into two.
The letterbox will be inches away.
History of my letterbox
This museum is a non-profit organization, incorporated in 1978 as The Friends of the Museum of Printing, Inc. The history of printing has changed dramatically within the past 100years. This museum tells the stories of these changes using one of the world’s largest collections of printing hardware. The ground floor contains two 90-foot galleries, a large lobby, and a library with access to the library’s archival stacks. The Robert L. Richter Memorial Library is named after one of the two people that began the museum. It has about 5000 volumes, and 3000 of them have been put into electronic files. There’s also the Mergenthaler Font Library, Ludlow Typograph Matrices Library, Intertype Photosetter Font Library, the Photon Font Library, and the Machinery and Product Library. Also the second floor contains a large meeting room, and offices. The first gallery has a timeline of the manufacturing of the letters. The timeline goes back to about 500 years. In the timeline you see how it goes from hot-metal typesetting to linecasting machines. You also get to see how they tried using linecasting technology to phototypesetting. It shows the strike on typesetters to make an inexpensive type. It then goes to where Massachusetts hi-tech companies played a higher role. The last part of it shows how everything is digital with a modern large formatted printer.