Tramp Printers or Passing of the Old Time Print
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The January 2, 1920 issue of The Oroville Weekly Gazette introduces us to an occupation that even in the 1920s had become antiquated by technological advances– the tramp printer, also known as the tourist printer or hobo antimony jerker: PASSING OF THE OLD TIME PRINT One day during the week this office had a call from that extreme rarity nowadays, a tourist printer. He was…