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Through our business practices and daily life, The Southern Letterpress strives to contribute to our community by manifesting sustainable and equitable practices in consideration of race, gender, sexual orientation, and the fate of the natural world.

All up in 1740/1776/Caslon/Dunlap. Beautiful typesetting in 2025 by @_kettlekern

When I moved to Philadelphia, I was bored to the point of nausea by revolutionary-era American history but 1.5 years later here I am, shocked to find that I am excitedly organizing a year of programming @commonpress around the materiality, printing a

Amazing history of type, in person at @ladiesofltrprs conference, curated by Special Collections at U Utah.

Happy Juneteenth from @commonpress. So excited to organize this open studio session last week where anyone could come in and print pressure prints of leaves collected from @upennbiopond from species used by enslaved people for medicinal purposes.

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