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This photograph, from the L'udovit Kandra Fonds (20-003), consists of Andrej Rolík standing in front of the Milán R. Štefánik statue in Cleveland (Ohio), April 1968.

This photograph, from the Imrich Stolárik Fonds (20-011), consists of a panoramic view of Milán R. Štefánik's monument, tomb and small portrait of Štefánik in the right-hand corner.

Women walk in single file to advocate for pay equity.

This is an example of paste paper, most specifically one generated with the “pull “(i.e. “pull-paper”) technique. A mixture of glue and colour pigments are applied with a brush to two sheets of paper that are imposed upon each other. Before the glue…

The printer’s device of Nicolo Pezzana (162?-170?) recalls that of the Giunta printers where Pezzana carried out part of his apprenticeship in Venice and which he ended in 1657. Without an inscription or personalized device, this mark depicts a…

The binding of this work has been elaborately blind-stamped with a number of decorative tools. Note the manuscript waste visible at the top of the spine; again, materials were reused wherever possible to add in the binding process, especially in…

This binding in blonde calfskin, with hand-tooled motifs generated by many decorative finishing tools, is an example of “fanfare” binding. A “frame” is generated by a series of straight lines tooled into the leather, while the covers are completely…

The banner is composed of black fabric with white letters sewn on with white thread. The banner For Every Woman Raped in Every War has been produced by the Political Action Committee of the Women’s Centre of Ottawa and used with the poem of the same…

This book is a post incunabula and was printed in 1512. It shows with more abundance, almost exaggeration, the use of printed ornamental initials of different sizes and formats.

This image displays yet another example of a register of signatures, with the colophon appearing just be- low. Here we see the beauty and finesse of printed text as realised by Aldus Manutius, The italic font, the spacing of characters and the…