Series consists of courses entitled I.T.U. Lessons in Printing by the International Typographical Union in Indianapolis, Indiana. Contains 8 units of learning that appear to be from 2 different course sections, one in general printing and the other is newspaper printing. Used by the Training and Re-establishment Institute of Toronto, some of the booklets have their crest on the front.
Topics include elements of composition, display composition, job composition, english for printers, imposition and lock up, newspaper advertising, and newspaper practice.

File contains Unit 1 in series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: The Beginning of Printing
Lesson 2: Printing - from Gutenberg to Bodoni
Lesson 3: Printing - from Caxton to the present
Lesson 4: Equipment used in the composing room
Lesson 5: How to set and distribute type
Lesson 6: Type - and all about it
Lesson 7: Making type easy to read
Lesson 8: How to pull proofs and make corrections
Lesson 9: What the printer should know about type faces
Lesson 10: Elementary arithmetic for printers

File contains Unit 2 the series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: How to make simple layouts
Lesson 2: Various styles of display
Lesson 3: Elementary principles of display
Lesson 4: How to set a simple display
Lesson 5: How to set display ads
Lesson 6: How to design and set modernistic display
Lesson 7: How to write and set effective newspaper and magazine heads
Lesson 8: How to use borders correctly
Lesson 9: How to use initials correctly
Lesson 10: How to set tabular matter

File contains Unit 3 in series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: How to set business cards
Lesson 2: How to design and set letterheads
Lesson 3: How to set billheads, statements, and invoices
Lesson 4: How to set and print envelopes
Lesson 5: How to print labels and blotters
Lesson 6: How to design and set title pages
Lesson 8: How to set various commercial jobs
Lesson 9: How to design and set booklets
Lesson 10: How to set society stationary

Lesson 7: How to set programs, announcements, and menus is not included in this collection.

File contains Unit 4 in the [Job] series. Booklets include:
Lesson 2: How to use balance as an aid to better printing
Lesson 3: How to use subject harmony in printing
Lesson 4:How to use tone harmony in printing
Lesson 5: How to use shape harmony in printing
Lesson 6: What the printer should know about paper
Lesson 7: What the printer should know about engravings
Lesson 8: What the printer should know about ink
Lesson 9: The use of color in printing

File contains Unit 5 in the series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: Period, comma, interrogation point, and exclamation point
Lesson 2: Semicolon, colon, and quotation marks
Lesson 3: Parenthesis, bracket, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, apostrophe, and capitilization
Lesson 4: How to spell
Lesson 5: How to compound words
Lesson 6: How to divide words
Lesson 7: Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs
Lesson 8: Prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, articles, and sentences
Lesson 9: How to use words correctly
Lesson 10: Proofreading and revising

File contains Unit 7 in the series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: The stonemason and his duties
Lesson 2: How to lock up forms for platen press and foundry
Lesson 3: How to O. K. forms for the press
Lesson 4: How to make folds and figure margins
Lesson 5: How to impose forms of two, four, six, and eight pages
Lesson 6: How to impose forms of twelve pages
Lesson 7: How to impose forms of sixteen, eighteen, twenty, and twenty-four pages
Lesson 8: How to impose forms of thirty two, thirty six, forty, forty-eight, and sixty-four pages
Lesson 9: Imposing form for folding machines
Lesson 10: How to impose plate forms

File contains Unit 3 in the newspaper series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: The operator and his job
Lesson 2: The machinist and his job
Lesson 3: The foreman and his job
Lesson 4: The copycutter and his job
Lesson 5: The bankman and his job
Lesson 6: Arithmetic of the newspaper composing room
Lesson 7: Nondistribution system - how to remelt and keep metal in proper condition
Lesson 8: Care and operation of composing-room saws and mitering machines
Lesson 9: Care and operation of material-making machines, typecasters, slug, lead, and rule cutters

File contains Unit 4 in the newspaper series. Booklets include:
Lesson 1: What the adman should know about advertising
Lesson 2: How to design newspaper ads
Lesson 3: How to write and set effective ad heads
Lesson 4: How to be a copywriter
Lesson 5: Newspaper adroom practice and procedure
Lesson 6: How to mark ad copy
Lesson 7: What the printer should know about engravings
Lesson 8: How to put punch into ads
Lesson 9: How to make newspaper layouts
Lesson 10: How to make advanced newspaper layouts