In May of 2017, Ken Safranski is shown with the Museum’s Model 8 Linotype loaded after being rolled out from the former Silverton Standard building on Greene Street.
The Model Three Linotype ( shown here) acquired by the Standard in 1936 was a very basic machne. Although manufactured in 1902, the machine parts and operation would be familiar to any Linotype operator working on much later and newer machines.
No less an inventor than Thomas Edison declared Ottmar Merganthaler’s Linotype as the Eighth Wonder of the World. The San Juan County Historical Society is proud to have an example of this wonderous machine in its collection.
From the year 1450 to late in the nineteenth century, almost all printed material was produced from hand-set type. That is, each letter was a reversed imag...
