Category: Arts & Humanities, John P. Morton, Louisville, United States
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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS About the Collection John P. Morton and Company was a publishing firm based in Louisville, Kentucky for much of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. John Price Morton (1807-1889) started out working as a clerk in a bookstore in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1825 William W. Worsley hired him to manage his Main Street shop, the Louisville Book Store. The company published a daily newspaper, The Focus , which merged with the Louisville Journal into the Journal and Focus , a precursor to the Courier-Journal ; the weekly Louisville Medical News ; and Home and School , a monthly journal of popular education. In 1838 Morton and Henry A.
Arts & Humanities | Book art | Book design | English | Image | John P. Morton | Kentucky | Louisville | Print | Relief printing | United States | University of Louisville | Woodblock printing | Decorative Art & Handicrafts | Fine Arts
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