Aankondiging van de feestavond van de het Corps van leerlingen van de MTS te Haarlem 1936

This little announcement, probably from the mid-20th century, publicizes a party by students of the MTS in Haarlem. I imagine someone carefully setting the type, letter by letter, to fit all the information in this small space. Look at the density of the text and the way the lines crowd together! It tells a story of local pride and the excitement of a student corps annual party. What was it like to be the one to do this job? The anonymous printer was likely thinking about readability, balance, and the need to convey information clearly but maybe also had a personal connection to the event itself. There's something deeply human about the imperfections of manual printing, isn't there? It is a record of our collective cultural and artistic history. I feel like it speaks to our shared past.