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The first volume of The National Amateur Excerpts from accounts 1879 convention NAPA's first permanent constitution Almost fatal doldrums 1926 marked the semi-centennial 
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National Amateur Press Association
The First 100 Years: Flashbacks... 
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At various times the National Amateur Press Association has had unusual stimulus, sometimes bringing it out of an almost fatal doldrums. In 1882 an article in a very popular youth magazine, St. Nicholas, had such an effect, spreading the gospel to a national audience. In 1930, Edwin Hadley Smith and Vincent B. Haggerty engineered a boy printer recruitment program with cooperation from the Kelsey Press Company of Meriden, Conn. In 1966 a good article on hobby printing in Popular Science magazine produced vital printing members. Kelsey Press Company again cooperated in 1969 to bring in another large group of printers. |
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