Membership

Join your friends at Hamilton and become a member today!

By joining at any level you will receive:
    •    The opportunity for pressroom rental, if proficiency is shown
    •    A quarterly newsletter
    •    Invitations to special events such as workshops, lectures, sales and the annual Wayzgoose
    •    Satisfaction in the knowledge that you are helping support the museum

Choose from six different levels:

Student Level: $25/yr

Gothic Level: $35/yr

Letterform (A–Z) preference:

Roman Level: $50/yr

We will send you: A Tuscan Egyptian Broadside, printed with love by the museum staff. This baby measures 14" x 20" and is printed on French Speckletone paper.

Tuscan Level: $100/yr

We will send you: One copy each of two of our wonderful type specimen books. The Hamilton & Katz type specimen facsimile was published by Dave Peat and Rich Hopkins and is based on the original book which dates from 1884 and measures 9" x 12".  The A.W. Kinsley Type Specimen facsimile was also published by Dave Peat.

Egyptian Level: $250/yr

We will send you: A Royal American Shows restrike printed here at the museum from two hand-carved wood blocks from the Globe Printing Collection. A really beautiful print at 28" x 40".

Aetna Level: $500/yr

We will send you: A limited-edition reproduction of Hamilton Wood Type's 1893 Columbian Exposition poster. Printed on Rives Deline paper and measuring 25" x 52" this edition, numbering 80 copies, was made from the original 1893 Plaque. This "ghost print" is the result of printing through a thin but durable film as inking the original type was not possible.

* Please allow 4–6 weeks for shipment of membership materials.