Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.073.005 |
Object Name |
Block, Printing |
Title |
Scanograve of Markdale Hospital Building (Centre Grey General Hospital) |
Date |
c. 1950? |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1960 |
Made |
Markdale Standard (The) |
Place of Origin |
Markdale, Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County |
Description |
A printing block with an image on it of the exterior of the Markdale Hospital. It might have been called a scanograve (they were used for images). It is nailed (six nails) to a wooden block that is shimmed with two layers of pink paper at the other side to make it type-high. Someone noted in ballpoint ink that it shows the "Original piece of Centre Grey Hospital" and "2 col" (two column?). The short end has a typescript label of Markdale Hospital. The item would be kept on hand at the newspaper office and re-used whenever there was an article about the hospital that needed a picture to go with it. |
Provenance |
This item was used at/kept by the Markdale Standard newspaper office at the village of Markdale in Grey County. The Centre Grey General Hospital was built in 19__. At an unknown date, prior to 2005, the item was given to the Beavercrest Community School in Markdale. |
Collection |
Printing & Bindery Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Wood/Metal/Paper/Ink |
Dimensions |
W-10.2 L-7 D-2.2 cm |
Found |
Markdale, Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County |
Subjects |
Hospitals Newspapers Printers Printing Printing blocks |
Search Terms |
Centre Grey General Hospital Markdale Standard |
Function |
A letterpress printing block that has an image of the Markdale Hospital on it. The item was kept and used by the Markdale Standard newspaper in Grey County. Letterpress printing began to decline in the 1960s. The block would be locked up in a chase with other items in order to make impressions when required. After an edition was printed, the cuts and blocks and type would be put back into their storage areas. |