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Blackbird Letterpress

Women Scientists perpetual calendar

Women Scientists perpetual calendar

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The story: From biochemist to botanist to rocket scientist, eight notable scientists are honored on this perpetual calendar: Patricia Bath, Annie Easley, Gerty Cori, Jane Cooke Wright, Rachel Carson, Mary Agnes Chase, Mary Jackson, Mary G. Ross.  It measures 8.5”x8.5” and the front piece is letterpress printed in light and dark blue/green on cotton paper It includes a ribbon for hanging and the back is printed with information about each scientist.

More about Blackbird Letterpress: Kathryn Hunter began Blackbird Letterpress in 2003, after she bought a Chandler & Price 8x12 letterpress. Since she couldn't move the 1100 lb press into her apartment, her friends, Pudd & Leigh Anne, came to the rescue by offering their back room as a printshop. Pudd & Kathryn flew up to to the Windy City and loaded a couple tons of type and cabinets and other goodies out of a basement into a moving truck, and drove it back to Bayou Country. A collection of vintage printers' cuts came from a long time printer in New Iberia, Louisiana. The printshop grew up little by little in that back room from 2003-2007 until it was bursting the seams. Blackbird then worked out of a mural-clad building in Baton Rouge from 2007-2016, which they shared with a cool metalworking business and two frisky guard dogs. The printshop moved in Fall of 2016 and has expanded in space and equipment. They use the original C&P 8x12, along with a Vandercook SP15, C&P 10x15, and 2 Heidelberg Windmills. 

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