As part of the celebration of the U.S. Government Printing Office's 150th anniversary on March 4, 2011, GPO has published a facsimile edition of 100 GPO Years, originally issued in 1961 on its 100th anniversary.
100 GPO Years takes a chronological approach to GPO history, beginning with a history of public printing in the United States prior to 1860 and describing events year by year from 1861 to 1961. A section of rare photographs illustrates the progress of “the big shop” from handset type to computer typesetting. This reprint edition includes an index, a new foreword, and a new colophon about the type fonts and changing printing technology.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prolog
Chapter I. Colonial Publick Printing: 1639–1789
II. Free Enterprise Public Printing: 1789–1861
- Government Printing Needs
- Congressional Proceedings
- Public Printing in New Capital
- Government Printers
- Congressional Investigations—1828 and 1840
- 1842 Printing Study
- Contract System Restored in 1846
- Events Leading to Establishment of GPO—1852–1860
- 1858 Investigation
- 1860 Investigation
III. 100 GPO Years: 1861–1961
- GPO in Swampoodle
- Proceedings and Debates of Congress
- New Printing Act
- GPO in Peace and War
- Postwar Operations
IV. This Is the GPO
- Heads of Public Printing: 1852–1961
- 100 Years of Growth of Government and GPO
- Organizational Structure
- Administration and Planning –Production
- History of Building Expansion
- Role in Government
Index
Members of the general public, government agencies, students and teachers, publishers and printers, and anyone interested in the history of the Government Publishing Office and/or printing and publishing will enjoy this publication.
Product Details
- History of United States Public Printing
- Government Printing Office
- Publishing
- One Hundred GPO Years
- Printing, Public
- Printing, Societies
- Printing, United States
