Printing Offices

The Planet describes the ownership and productive capacities of “three fully and well equipped printing establishments in the city.”

There are three fully and well equipped printing establishments in the city. Two of these concerns are owned and manned by organizations. The Reformers have a large office from which they put out printing for the brotherhood. The St. Lukes have a modest plant under the mechanical control of that very efficient workman, Mr. Geo. Hewlett, -’tis useless to say their work is all first-class. But the print-shop of the city that has a truly business aspect and gains the admiration of the sightseer is the Richmond Planet Office owned by John Mitchell, Jr., and from which is issued that peerless race journal, the Richmond Planet. The Planet is located in a handsome and very valuable four story structure on north Fourth street within a stone’s throw of Broad St. The office is thoroughly equipped from bottom to top with almost every conceivable contrivance necessary for the production of good printing. In the press-room there is a large century printing press with a speed capacity of 2500 per hour, and job presses from card size up and a modern folding-machine.

-Mr. A. B. Hughes in the Washington, D. C. Industrial Enterprise.

“Printing Offices,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed August 13, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1118.