Images(3)

Plate, Printing

Object number2017.97.4

Date2014

MediumMetal

Credit LineGIft of the Graphic Communications Conference-International Brotherhood of Teamster's Local 24M

DescriptionFlat, rectangular metal newspaper printing sheet for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Front is green with raised text, photographic images, and details. Front has, from top to bottom, newspaper information, news articles, list of contents, and barcode. One hole in each corner. Reverse is shiny silver metal.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 23.5 x 12 x 0.063 in. (59.7 x 30.5 x 0.2 cm)
InscriptionsFront has raised green text including, roughly from top to bottom:
"COUNTDOWN TO THE IMPROVED Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / ... / The Pittsburgh Press / Vol. 88, No. 38 / $2.00 / ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS / NAMEPLATE: CIRCA 1992 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 FOUNDED 1786 / Obama / to delay / move on / border / policy / Poor health / A SPECIAL REPORT / Going beyond / the doctor's office / USAir / Flight / 427 / 20 YEARS LATER / UPMC, / Highmark / start their / marketing / engines / Search goes on for WWII's missing / BEN AT 10 / ... / [barcode] / 6 08136 26303 2".
MarksReverse has black printed text in the bottom proper left quadrant "18/12/13 18:14 OP".
Historical NotesPrinting sheet with raised surface details. Part of a collection from Local 24 of the Graphic Communications Conference-International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The national union descends from the National Typographical Union which formed in 1852 and became the International Typographic Union in 1869. The union splintered in the late 1890s/early 1900s into several unions representing pressmen, bookbinders, stereotypers/electrotypers, lithographers, and platemakers, before slowly merging back together over the years. In 1983, the Graphic Communications International Union formed from the merging of the Int. Printing and Graphics Communication Union and the Graphic Arts International Union. Finally in 2005, the GCC union merged with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to create the present-day organization. Local 24 started in the early 1900s as a group of Lithographers in the Pittsburgh area. In 2016, they downsized their offices and moved from Uptown to Three Mile Run, and in the process, donated their records and this collection of artifacts. Most of the material donated was made by the union such as buttons, posters, stickers, flat product sheets, and two printing sheets that show the change in printing technology from raised letters to flat sheets.

Related institution Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (founded 1927)

Related institution The Pittsburgh Press

Related person Barack Hussein Obama

Related institution Pittsburgh Steelers

Related institution US Airways

Related institution University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Related institution Highmark

Related person Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger Sr. (born 1982)

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