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Selected Projects 2016-18
company to be examples of art. To make his bills
anti-counterfeit, Franklin had to innovate on current
technologies and create new ones. The colonial
bills I encountered at the Library Company have
utilized monotype printing, intaglio plate processes,
and of course, the nature-leaf print blocks that
were custom made. I hope to explore the process
further in the fall of 2018, when I try to recreate the
theorized methods of how the leaf blocks were made
to make my own print editions.
UMass Dartmouth, I would like to thank Professor
Amy Shapiro of the English Department and Lan
Travers and Paula Rioux of the History Department
for igniting my love of public history. I would also
like to thank Professor Elena Peteva of the Fine
Arts Department for answering all of my questions
about printmaking and for teaching me printing.
Finally, I am grateful to UMass Dartmouth’s OUR
grant program and the review committee for the
opportunity to conduct this research.
My documentation of the project will be within a
“vlogumentary”, utilizing a YouTube and traditional
documentary style methodology to discuss what I
learned: some history about colonial printing, and
the process of photogrammetry. I hope to release it
in the upcoming academic year.
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I am grateful to Bryn Mawr College and their
Digital Scholarship team on campus, Jessica
Linker, Umma Tanjuma Haque, Shuang Li, Linda
Zhu, Eleftheria Anagnostou, Matthew Jameson,
Anne McShane and Jim Green and other staff
at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Here at
Two Dollar Bill for Massachusetts-Bay, March 1780, Printed by Hall
and Sellers for a “Peter Boyer”. The bill uses intaglio, mono-type
printmaking, unique registration, and a nature/leaf print block