September 28, 2016

Windgate Project Managers: Fall 2016

Through a gracious contribution from the Windgate Foundation, Hamilton has embarked on an organizational project to catalog the museum’s collections. We started the process in 2015 working with Heather Buechler, Raychel Lauen and Vida Sacic. In the fall of 2016 we brought in Scott Mann and Tom Walker to continue the monumental task of organizing and proofing the type and... Read More »

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September 3, 2016

Silver Buckle Press Exhibition Gallery Reception

On Saturday August 27th we celebrated the Silver Buckle Press collection. After more than four decades at UW-Madison, the Silver Buckle Press collection was relocated to the museum under a long-term agreement between Hamilton and the University of Wisconsin. During the spring and summer of 2016 Tracy Honn, the retiring director of Silver Buckle Press, oversaw the organizing, packing, and... Read More »

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September 2, 2016

Hamilton Stories: Bill Ahearn

Hamilton Stories: An Oral History, was a six-event speaker series at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2015 and early 2016, that commemorated the occupational heritage and process of making wood type. Founded in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1880, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company became the largest manufacturer of wood type in the United States. As a local employer and... Read More »

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September 2, 2016

Hamilton Stories: David Artz

Hamilton Stories: An Oral History, was a six-event speaker series at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2015 and early 2016, that commemorated the occupational heritage and process of making wood type. Founded in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1880, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company became the largest manufacturer of wood type in the United States. As a local employer and... Read More »

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September 2, 2016

Hamilton Stories: Mardell Doubek

Hamilton Stories: An Oral History, was a six-event speaker series at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2015 and early 2016, that commemorated the occupational heritage and process of making wood type. Founded in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1880, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company became the largest manufacturer of wood type in the United States. As a local employer and... Read More »

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