I was given a tour of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation’s “Artefactory” storage facility in the West Royalty Industrial Park this morning: Linda Berko, Boyde Beck and Jason MacNeil kindly led me on a voyage through Prince Edward Island’s printing history. There is a nice collection of artifacts in the collection, ranging from furniture and metal type from Irwin Printing to a lovely collection of letterpress cuts from Rogers Hardware. There are one and a half letterpresses: a compact Kelsey 5x8 that’s the American cousin of my own Adana Eight Five, and, somewhat oddly, only one half of a larger floor-model press that I couldn’t identify. There are other interesting things like the paper “molds” of the Guardian and Evening Patriot “flags” and a Graphotype machine. Here’s a selection of photos I took during the tour:
