Old-time Presses In A Modern World

"I was real happy with that," he says.

Genesee prints posters, broadsides, Shaker seed packages ("a real challenge with tiny sideways type," Poole says) and an eight-page, hand-stitched, hand-folded recipe book.

Historic Documents

At the Printing Office at Franklin Court in Philadelphia, Chauncy says all production is for low-cost souvenirs. Fresh copies of the Declaration of Independence, plus handbills and quotes from Thomas Jefferson or "Poor Richard's Almanac," sit out on a table near his press. The print shop recently produced eight-page copies of Thomas Paine's pamphlet "The American Crisis."