FIRST, Thank you for your support!
We have so appreciated all donations that came to the Depot through this website, Colorado Gives, Facebook and the mail. With a match from the Board, they have helped us meet the requirements for the grant from the State Historical Fund to begin interior rehabilitation of this depot. Thank you! We are on course to begin interior construction early in 2021.
But wait! There's more!
If you haven’t been able to donate yet, we welcome you now - all will be matched through year end. These funds will help make sure we make it through that first phase of construction (you know how construction costs go) and to help with continuing work to make the building fully functional for public use, Help us press our inky plans forward. All aboard, all welcome. Donate at http://www.letterpressdepot.com/marketplace/donate-to-the-depot
More type at the depot!
A glimpse of the recent move of 77 cases of type and other treasures donated from the Johnson Publishing Company, out of storage in Loveland, Colorado, thank you Janice!
George Phineas Gordon's Franklin press repaired!
John Major Jenkins saved this improved 1872 Gordon new style press from a basement in Wyoming but it was disassembled, broken and missing the shaft that pivots the bed. Ben Franklin told Gordon how it would work in a dream. The earlier Ruggles card press and Gordon's 1861 Alligator press can be seen at the International Museum of Printing in Carson, California. Gordon's Franklin jobbers became the model for platen presses by Chandler & Price and many other manufacturers, common in printshops in the late 19th century. Ours was known as the Brass Arm Gordon for its brass inking roller assembly.
Thanks to John Morse for machining and donating the missing shaft.
