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LINOTYPES
Linotype machine, New York World, 1909
Source: The Bain Collection, Library of Congress
Mergenthaler Linotype Co. Ad, 1903
Source: Scientific American, November 14, 1903
Collection of the Skyscraper Museum
Monotype compositors at work, New York World, 1909
Source: The Bain Collection, Library of Congress
The "white collar" workers are using monotype machines. The monotype system divided the typesetting process between two machines: the monotype keyboard and the monotype caster. Compositors would enter the text on the keyboard to produce holes in a paper tape which was then sent to a caster that read the code and produced a line of type in a lead slug.
