Chillicothe Gazette’s February 21st, 1966 Monday evening publication pays tribute to Dard Hunter, a renowned paper historian. Dard’s passion for print and paper led him to establish a museum at MIT in 1939; following relocations, the museum was renamed the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, eventually merging with the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003.  
Chillicothe Gazette’s February 21st, 1966 Monday evening publication pays tribute to Dard Hunter, a renowned paper historian. Dard’s passion for print and paper led him to establish a museum at MIT in 1939; following relocations, the museum was renamed the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, eventually merging with the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003.  
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Left: 3 Stephen Daye Press postage stamps. Right: the Stephen Daye Press.
The artifact of the month for July is a collection of postage stamps featuring what is known as the Stephen Daye press. These three-cent violet stamps were issued on September 25, 1939, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of printing in Colonial America.
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Two block print book papers from Italy made by Flavia Farina Cini (1881-1979)
This month’s Artifact of the Month is two block print book papers from Italy made by Flavia Farina Cini (1881-1979).
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Decorative Papers
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Artist, Handmade, Woodblock
Both sides of the paper sample from Bosques del Papel in Peru

This month’s object is a new museum acquisition: paper samples from Bosques del Papel in Peru. The museum collects sample books and swatches like these to document the wide varieties of paper made around the world. These sample books are resources for historians and artists to be able to see first-hand the kinds of papers available and used in different places and times.   

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Decorative Papers
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Sample Books
Top: Reproduction photos of AG with Dard Hunter, AG with Harry Lewis. Bottom Left: Pour mold from classroom. Bottom Right: Trash to Treasure Papermaking
August 19 would have been Arnold Grummer’s 100th birthday. Arnie, as his friends and family called him, may be best known for the eponymous company he founded that provides papermaking supplies and equipment to papermakers from novice to expert.
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On the left side of the collage there is a page with blue left side with a tan middle with some black intricate line and a green right side. The right side of the collage has a picture of a cursive letters on the top and a picture of ‘Mind your duty to God’ repeated on the bottom.

This month’s Artifact of the Month is a penmanship copybook from the 19th century (#1993.006.50). The covers are a single sheet of paste paper with a pattern of men in boats in the background, while in the bottom third of the sheet there are soldiers with rifles and a cannon. This whole scene, however, is dominated by the hooves and body of a saddled horse in profile along with the leg of its rider. The owner of the copybook, Emanuel Fiddler, wrote his name on both covers.

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Ephemera
The single folded sheet of handmade paper contains the printed words “Christmas 1974” and the Twinrocker logo as well as a handwritten note in blue ink: “Warm wishes in 1975 Kathryn and Howard and everyone at Twinrocker.” The central figure of the paper is a blue five-pointed star made of paper pulp. 

This month’s Artifact of the Month is a Christmas card from Twinrocker to the Paper Museum in 1974. The single folded sheet of handmade paper contains the printed words “Christmas 1974” and the Twinrocker logo as well as a handwritten note in blue ink: “Warm wishes in 1975 Kathryn and Howard and everyone at Twinrocker.” The central figure of the paper is a blue five-pointed star made of paper pulp.  

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Ephemera
The cover is dedicated entirely to a caricature-like illustration of a sailor reading a newspaper with the two presidential candidates of the 1944 election on the covers: Thomas E. Dewey and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

This month’s Artifact of the Month is an edition of the Port Hole newspaper from November 1, 1944. This semi-monthly journal was published by the American Red Cross Service Club and printed by Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd. in Australia for the sailors stationed in the Pacific Theater of World War II. There are numerous articles including two opinion pieces on Navy Day, reports on sports and local events, and notices and schedules of social events.

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The wood block is featured on the left side of the photo and the right has a blue floral pattern on top and the bottom has a zoom in photo of the wooden block. The wooden black has a floral pattern made of brass and copper and block it sits on is painted red.

This month’s Artifact of the Month is a woodblock designed by Kate Faulkner in the late 1800s (#1989.2118). The block consists of three layers of one-inch-wide wood planks laminated with nails and screws. The top layer is carved around the edges and there are outlines of a floral pattern made of brass and copper wire along with felt.

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Decorative Papers
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Woodblock
The front of the bill is mainly brown on a multi-colored background made up of a pattern that reads “BANCO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA” which translates to “National Bank of Costa Rica.” The bill is titled “Banco Nacional de Costa Rica Departamento Emisor” and “Dos Colones” between which there is a three-quarter bust portrait of Juan Vázquez de Coronado that is captioned with his name and the assignation of “Primer Adelantado de Costa Rica, 1565.”

This month’s featured Artifact of the Month is a Costa Rican two-colón note from 1941 (1993.003.033).

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Currency