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Northshore October 2025
Join the Museum of Printing in Haverhill as they celebrate Hot Metal Day on Saturday, February 1. Activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. celebrate the Linotype machine, a hot metal typesetting system invented in the late nineteenth century. Watch demonstrations on the museum's Linotype Model 31 by operator, Michael Babcock, of Interrobang Letterpress. Cast a name, favorite word, or emoji in hot metal on a Ludlow type caster, and print a keepsake with museum staff in the Letterpress Studio. Ludlow typecasters, keyboard-less machines able to cast lines of display type from handset brass matrices, were manufactured by the Ludlow Typograph C
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