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Contact us
The American Printing History Association has no offices or permanent staff, but board members, publications editors, and chapter presidents will be happy to answer your inquiries.
General inquiries
General business matters and inquiries may be addressed to APHA’s executive secretary,
Executive Secretary
American Printing History Association
PO Box 4519, Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
secretary@printinghistory.org
Membership information
For a membership application, click here.
If you have problems or questions for the Vice-president for Membership, send an e-mail to memberinfo@printinghistory.org.
Submit an article to one of our publications
To contact the editor of our semiannual journal, Printing History, send an e-mail to editor@printinghistory.org.
To contact the editor of The APHA Newsletter, click here.
For information on advertising in one of the publications, click here.
Contact the webmaster
To submit news for the website, send an e-mail to newsletter@printinghistory.org.
To report problems with the website, send an e-mail to website@printinghistory.org.
Regional chapters
If you are interested in starting a new regional chapter, send an e-mail to memberinfo@printinghistory.org.
Elected to their first term, at our annual general meeting held January 28, were Robert McCamant, President; James P. Ascher, VP for Publications; Casey Smith, VP for Membership; and Charles Cuykendall Carter, Secretary. Re-elected to a second term were Kitty Maryatt, VP for Programs; and David Goodrich, Treasurer. Trustees Amelia Hugill-Fontanel and Richard Ring will serve until January 2013.
The American Printing History Association welcomes proposals for its 2012 annual conference. “At the Crossroads: Living Letterform Traditions” at Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, October 12–13, 2012. Proposals are due by March 15. Full details are available in PDF.
Our annual general meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday January 28, 2012 in the Trustees’ Room on the second floor of the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan. In addition to Association business, our annual meeting is a chance to meet fellow members from around the country, to network, and to hear some important speakers. (Our meeting marks the end of “Bibliography Week” in New York, when similar groups hold their annual meetings and this year includes a major exhibition on printing at the Grolier Club; more information online grolierclub.org. APHA’s meeting is free and open to non-members (except for voting), so please invite friends interested in printing, books, publishing, and type. Read the President's Letter.
The Fall 2011 issue of the APHA Newsletter comprises of reports from the annual conference including panels, Pamela Smith's keynote address, Gwido Zlatkes's Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship talk, the SoCal chapter book fair, a tour of the Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture at UCSD and a list of new APHA members. Download the Newsletter in PDF form.
Kitty Maryatt reports on the first-ever conference book fair. Read all about it.
Many numbers are available to APHA members for a limited time at the bargain rate of $8 for the first issue, $6 for each additional; $15 for double issues. Learn more at printinghistory.org/sale.
Details and application for the 2012 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship
in Printing History are now online.
Thanks to the generosity of several APHA Southern California Chapter members, the Southern California Chapter has conducted its first-ever student membership drawing.
To celebrate the start of 2011, the complete listing of Printing History's contents have been put back online. See the contents (and a few select articles) from the Original Series, or a complete listing of the New Series. See something you like? Download the Back Issue Order Form.