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[Urban Communications Building]

Description: Photograph of the front facade of the Urban Communications Inc. building, a single-story brick construction with a flat roof. No accompanying information has been provided, but it would follow that they are a commercial business of some kind. A single-story building can be seen on the right. Photograph was taken some distance away, capturing a two-way street.
Date: 1995
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Boy and Girl Next to Heidelberg Press]

Description: Photograph of unidentified school-age children next to a Heidelberg press. The photograph was taken candidly, while both boy and girl were directing their sight off camera. The boy wears a multicolored striped shirt. His companion, behind him, is wearing a purple shirt and matching scrunchie. Although no accompanying information has been provided, they were most likely visiting the Urban Communications Inc. facility as part of a tour or field trip. The Heidelberg press, behind them, is used for… more
Date: 1995
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Gates Elementary Students and Teacher Inside Urban Communications Inc. Facility]

Description: Photograph of unidentified Gates Elementary children and their teacher inside the Urban Communications In. facility, a San Antonio-based business responsible for commercial printing and publishing. The students have their backs to the camera, and are facing a camcorder instead. The video camera is set on a tripod and being operated by a man in a green shirt and denim jeans, who is presumably about to interview the students. Their teacher, dressed in formal attire, stands near the camcorder. Beh… more
Date: 1995
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ad for Photo Enlargements with the Fox Company]

Description: Ad for photo enlargements with the Fox Company. The ad features a framed photograph of a girl wearing a coat, hat, and knee-high socks. Next to the photograph are the words "Special big picture made from any good film complete with beautiful easel folder nearly a foot big, Hand colored 65 cents, The Fox Company, San Antonio, TX." The Fox Company's stamp is on the back of the photograph and says "Guaranteed for Life, This is a Genuine Border Fox Tone Picture Made By Fox Co., San Antonio, Texas, … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Fox Company
Partner: Gillespie County Historical Society

[Letter from Homer Whitt to John J. Herrera - 1950-05-22]

Description: Letter from Homer Whitt, Whitt Printing Company of San Antonio, Texas, to John J. Herrera, dated May 22, 1950. This is in reply to Herrera's letter of May 9,1950, regarding printing LULAC placards. Whitt quotes prices and quantities and also refers Herrera to some some Houston firms that could produce windshield stickers as Whitt Printing does not print them.
Date: May 22, 1950
Creator: Whitt, Homer
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

Type

Description: Patent for type. This inventions is for the body of type used in printing presses. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Press Gripper.

Description: Patent for a device to grip paper being carried between the type bed, rotary platen, and delivery belts of a printing press.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Sadovsky, Nathan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Paper-Folder.

Description: Patent for a rotary paper folder meant to fold newspapers as they come from the press in a web. The invention is simple, and cuts the paper into sheets of the desired length. Its folding attachment folds the paper in parallel columns, and the knives do not move in relation to the cylinders.
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Carr, Elijah W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compositor's Stick

Description: Patent for a compositor's stick. This invention is for the improvement of the mechanism for setting type and printing.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photographic-Printing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for photographic printing apparatus for printing photographs from film or plate which aims to improve on previous models by making "the printing operation easy and efficient" (lines 20-21) including illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Welsh, Monte
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photographic-Printing Frame.

Description: Patent for a new Photographic-printing frame. The "invention relates to certain improvements in photographic-printing frames, and has for its object to construct a frame of such character as to readily permit of the raising of the glass negative from its printing position for the inspection of the sensitized paper and to return the same accurately to printing position." (Lines 8-15) Illustration is included.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Callaway, Alonzo N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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