composing-stands

Updated: August 28, 2026

Johnson: "The dingy walls; the small windows, bespattered with printer's ink; the press standing in one corner; the composing-stands opposite; the long editorial and mailing table, covered with newspapers; the bed of the editor and publisher on the floor all these make a picture never to be forgotten."

Archibald Henry Grimké - William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist