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Census Occupations - L - Letterpress Printer

Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were Letterpress Printer.

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Description: Someone who worked in the publishing industry, a printer who used the letterpress method. This was a term for the relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.

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