The Saguache Crescent's Print Shop: This small-town weekly newspaper stills use a Linotype Machine to print 

This photograph, and other similar ones from the same collection, caught my attention because they were taken in 2016 and show a running Linotype print shop still in operation in The United States of America. It is the only one in existence in the country.  

The Saguache Crescent has been using the machine since 1921, and the current owner, Mr. Dean Coombs is the only employee; witnessing how the paper’s text is assembled word by word using lead type and the printing process using and old press must be amazing, a window to the past.

Looking at the picture makes me reflect of how much communication technologies has advance in the last century, providing new ways to increase productivity, to exchange and obtain information, and to deliver news, to name but a few. 

Sadly, Mr. Coombs is not training a replacement to take over after his retirement; therefore, his retirement will mark the end of an era. 

References:

    Highsmith, C. M. (2016). In the tiny, cluttered offices of the weekly Saguache Crescent newspaper, publisher Dean Coombs still sets type the VERY old-fashioned way, on a vintage linotype machine, that spits out lead type, hot to the touch, row by row [Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017885039/