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Making an Opaltype the old-school way — @uvphotographics demonstrates the Collodio-Chloride on glass process, using nothing but the sun as the UV light source 🌞 Shot in Cuyama, California during a tintype gathering with @moderntintype.photo, this image was created from a digital negative made on an iPhone, proving that even modern tech has a place in historical printmaking. Opaltypes are part of the broader world of alternative photographic processes — in this case, a striking mid-century-inspi

History meets innovation at drupa 2024 Visitors explore the history of printing at drupa 2024 with the Museum of Printing Arts Leipzig. In Hall 14 the museum gives live demonstrations of historical printing presses, including an original Gutenberg-era machine. Discover over 550 years of printing culture, see rare machines in action, and learn about traditional techniques like collotype and wood engraving. #drupa #drupa2024 #HistoryOfPrint #PrintingLive #MuseumOfPrint | drupa

The Black Oil Company History Deliberately Erased in 1917 In 1917, four Black entrepreneurs—Wilson Newman, J.C. Pratt, S.M. Holland, and Heston Welborn—founded the Ardmore Lubricating Oil Company in Oklahoma during the height of Jim Crow segregation. Operating from the "wrong side" of East 2nd Street in Oklahoma City, they purchased a 100-acre oil lease in the Healdton oilfield and struck high-grade lubricating oil worth five times the market price. These pioneers sold shares to the Black commun