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The printing and publishing (newspapers, magazines, books) industries are critical to NYC's economic, social, and cultural history. Manhattan can well be said to be the 'Silicon Alley' of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This tour will focus on the built environment in midtown Manhattan (forties and thirties) relevant to the printing and publishing world. We will visit former bookstores (Scribner's 5th Avenue) educational institutions (High School of Graphic Communication Arts), former printing plants (McGraw Hill, Scribners, Printing Crafts Building), and other sites relevant to the history of printing and publishing in NYC from the 1910s to the 1980s.