Lithography machines in the Strobridge Lithographing Plant

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Title	Lithography machines in the Strobridge Lithographing Plant
Subject	Cincinnati (Ohio)--History--20th century--Pictorial works Cincinnati (Ohio)--Industries--History Strobridge Lithographing Company
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton (Ohio)
Description	Reverse reads in script: "Scene in Strobridge Lithographing Plant, Cincinnati c/ Homer Jensen." The photograph shows lithographing machines in the Strobridge Lithographing Plant. Each machines uses a series of dampening rollers, inking rollers, and cylanders to print the lithographs. Lithography originally used an image drawn in wax or other oily substance applied to a lithographic stone as the medium to transfer ink to the printed sheet. In modern times, the image is often made of polymer applied to a flexible aluminum plate. The flat surface of the plate or stone is slightly roughened, or etched, and divided into hydrophilic regions that accept a film of water and thereby repel the greasy ink, and hydrophobic regions that repel water and accept ink because the surface tension is higher on the greasier image area which remains dry. The image may be printed directly from the stone or plate (in which case it is reversed from the original image) or may be offset by transfer to a flexible sheet, usually rubber, for transfer to the printed article. Strobridge Lithographing Plant was founded in 1847 as a stationery store by Elijah Middleton. In 1854 lithographer W.R. Wallace and bookseller Hines Strobridge joined the business. Its signature products were circus, theater, and movie posters. It was sold to the H.S. Crocker printing company in 1961 and closed its doors ten years later in 1961.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Homer Jensen
Date of Original	1930-1940 circa
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B07F09_018_1.TIF
Image Height	4950
Image Width	6036
File Size	89640512 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2011-05-09
Date modified	2011-05-12

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