The Lawson-Provan teaching files are full of interesting bits of history. Typocurious aims to offer up online “reprints” of such material, particularly when an anniversary approaches.

In that spirit, Typocurious offers “Octavius A. Dearing and the ‘California Case’” in honor of the upcoming 169th birthday of the man who (possibly) invented of the California job case.

This article was originally published in The Kemble Occasional, No. 3, March 1967, San Francisco, California. No byline is given to the article, but it was most likely written by either George L. Harding, Honorary Curator of the Edward C. Kemble Collections on American Printing & Publishing, and/or Miss Annette Windele, Assistant Curator.

George Harding, by the way, was D.B. Updike’s graduate assistant at Harvard while that eminent printer-historian tackled the arduous work of his monumental Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use.

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