California Job Case

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Two type cases from the 1900 catalog of A.D. Farmer & Son Type Founding Co. The lower one is a California Job Case.
Two type cases from the 1900 catalog of A.D. Farmer & Son Type Founding Co. The lower one is a California Job Case.

A California Job Case is a kind of type case: a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing.[1]

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  1. ^ Fred Williams, Origin of the California Job Case, originally published in Type & Press, Fall 1992. Available online at apa-letterpress.com. Accessed online 2 May 2008.


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