printeress

plural printeresses · alternative printress

1. datedA female printer.

   One of our printeresses has got the dead wood on any jail, if she should ever be so unfortunate as to ever be locked up in one.

   1875 October 20, Topeka Daily Blade, number 406, Topeka, Kan.

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   The “Historia Economico-politica y Estadistica de la Isla de Cuba,” (printed by the Widows of Arazoza y Soler, Printeresses of the Government, & c. Havana, 1831,)[…].

   1835, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 550

   Our Union is very small, only two offices, but we are hopeful of the future. No discontent. All harmony. We have one office in town that is anti-Union all over; it employs a lot of fair unfair printeresses. We hope they will repent before a century expires.

   1867 February 1, Printers’ Circular, volume I, number 12, page 164

   The new millinery establishment evidently means business. It patronizes the painter and the printer The painteresses and the printeresses will, no doubt, return the compliment.

   1872 April 25, “Local Miscellany”, in Nemaha Valley Journal, volume V, number 14; number 222, Falls City, Neb.

   […]a pleasant little reunion yesterday afternoon at the residence of Charlotte Smith, No. 1004 Olive Street., to celebrate the formation of the Women’s Printing company. This has long been a favorite project with Mrs. Smith, and with her usual pluck she resolved to constitute herself a nucleus around whom should gather all the competent, able-minded, and able-bodied printeresses who felt disposed to unite in the enterprise.

   1874 November 27, Missouri Republican; quoted in Autumn Stanley, “St. Louis Revisited”, in Raising More Hell and Fewer Dahlias: The Public Life of Charlotte Smith, 1840–1917, Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2009, →ISBN, page 88

   ABOUT PRINTERESSES. Some unsophisticated editor in the southern portion of the State advertises for two girls to learn the printer’s trade.

   1876 March 3, The Osage City Free Press, number 51, Osage City, Kan.