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Hatch Show Print
Hand-set letterpress poster shop carving wood type for country music and touring acts since the eighteen seventies.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hatch Show Print in Nashville turns on the spring of nineteen eighty four, when a young printer named Jim Sherraden knelt in a storeroom of an old letterpress shop on Lower Broadway, opening crates nobody had touched in decades. It traces the shop back to brothers Charles and Herbert Hatch in eighteen seventy nine and the son who carved its signature lettering, then follows the hard decades afterward when offset printing and a string of owners nearly ended it. You will hear what Sherraden found in those crates.
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