The first official observance of Memorial Day took place on May 30, 1868, with the laying of flowers upon the graves of Union and Confederate dead in Arlington National Cemetery. Just a few years past was the end of the Civil War, a conflict that stands as history’s most thoroughly documented set of hostilities up to that time. Press coverage of the war in periodicals such as Harper’s Weekly was extensive and is well remembered today. Less widely known is the printing that came straight from the battlefield out of small-format, print-on-demand equipment that’s recognizable as the ancestry of modern solutions for short-run production.
see full article at: For Memorial Day, Thoughts of Print in Times of War – Printing Office – a Blog for Small and Medium Printers.
