Fox Graphics / Merrimac Editions

Merrimac Editions, Merrimac, Massachusetts

LocationMerrimac, Massachusetts, United States

BiographyFox Graphics main location was in Boston on Bromfield Street:

FOX GRAPHIC'S (from Journal of the Print World)
In its day, the Merrimac Grange Hall (Mass. Historical Site#17) was known as the "largest theatre in these here parts". Built in 1839, the imposing Greek Revival,has served the residents of Merrimac, Massachusetts, as a church, meetinghouse, public school, movie house, dance hall, World War I armory and bandage factory, and for many years Merrimac's best and only theater.

One summer the historical Merrimac Grange Hall (Mass. Historical Site #17) was purchased by Master Printer Herb Fox of Boston's Fox Graphics Editions on Bromfield Street. Limited to house his growing variety of custom printing presses, with one particular French antique in mind. It is his 10-ton VOIRIN rotary lithographic poster press (NOW SOLD), built in Paris in 1880. At home, on a 6" thick cement floor reinforced with steel rods."The Jewel" is capable of printing original posters from artists drawings on traditional Bavarian limestone's in the same way that Lautre's and Bonnard's were done 100 years ago.

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