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Tuesday Trades: Live with the Printer


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How did 18th-century Williamsburg residents hear the news of the day? Not through Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, that's for sure! Join us in the printing office, and examine an age when the printed word was the primary means of long-distance mass communication. Meet the printers who set type and use reproduction printing presses to manufacture colonial newspapers, political notices, pamphlets, and books. View this live and archived video HERE.