Pressbooks & pulps
Electric typewriter and manual paste up from a comic book zine (c) mid-1970s.
The color purple
Mimeograph machines printed inexpensive copies in a distinctive purple ink. They were ubiquitous throughout schools for a good part of the 20th century. Often powered by hand crank, the mimeograph (also called a "ditto machine") used a master created by typing, drawing or writing on special pressure-sensitive master paper. Shown above is a page from a 70s era mimeographed fanzine.
Graphomania
In a fit of typographic obsession, this ad continues for five more handwritten eight-column tabloid pages. From a 70s newsprint fanzine.
Punk rock aquarium supply zine
This aquarium supply catalog from the 70s is an example of manual paste up with electric typewriter-produced galleys. Half of the catalog is inadvertantly stapled together upside down. Printed in blue, not mimeographed.
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