New and Old Printing

I'm just home from a weekend of Wayzgoose at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. (Wayzgoose? What's that?)

With the election just two days away, there was a lot of printing on display related to it or the general political environment. Such as this piece is by Ben Blount:


I liked the design and simplicity of this postcard on chipboard:


There's a great a contrast in size from the postcard to this piece...


...which was at least eight feet tall and had been printed with a steamroller.

This final poster is an antique rather than a reprinting of old plates:


Enquirer was a Cincinnati-based company that printed the majority of circus posters in the U.S., and the Hamilton museum now houses the collection of their plates and some printed items like this one.

If you're ever anywhere near the east side of Wisconsin, visit the Hamilton.