Spirit Duplicators: Early 20th Century Copier Art, Fanzines and the Mimeograph Revolution
Channel: Special Collections & Archives, UIowa Libraries
Date: 23/07/2021

Summer Seminar Series is back! Join Special Collections & Archives staff as we talk about what we know best, our collections.

In this July 2021 talk, Olson Graduate Research Assistant Rich Dana takes us through his exhibit on spirit duplicators.

What did artists of the Avant Garde in 1915 have in common with young science fans of the 1940s and political radicals of the 1960s? They all expressed themselves through cheaply-printed pamphlets and posters.  Before digital printing and photocopiers, the  hectograph, the mimeograph and the spirit duplicator were commonly used for mundane office copying. But when poets, artists and activists discovered these technologies, a new, independent aesthetic language was born.
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Speaker is Rich Dana
Title card graphic designed by Kalmia Strong 
Editing by Rich Dana and Liz Riordan