Publishing a newspaper in the 1850s was no simple task! In this video, Howard discusses our copy of the first edition of the Daily Bee. It was a 4 page paper set mostly in 6 point type. It took about 100 hours to set the type for the newspaper and that doesn’t include printing it! A newspaper office would employ 15-20 typesetters to set the type and also to clean the type for redistribution back into the typecase at the end of the day. With two printers operating a printing press, like our Washi