Tinta, papel e prensa : a trajetória da Officina Graphica Edda na produção da cultura escrita no município de São Lourenço do Sul/RS (1892 – 1983)

Abstract

This Master's dissertation in Education has as main objective to investigate Officina Graphica EDDA trajectory as a production protagonist and written culture diffusion in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul between the years 1892 and 1983. The course of the graphics is analyzed from the types of publications over the years. In this work, documentary research and interviews were used as a methodology. In the documentary research, newspapers, books and municipal reports produced by the printing company were observed. Regarding the interviews, two employees of the printing company were interviewed, a historian and the buyer of the printing company in 1983. In order to better understand the creation of Officina Graphica EDDA and its operation, it was necessary to identify the boards, as well as the typographers, publications and commercialization of various materials. Linked to these aspects, it was also necessary to identify the development of printing houses and publishing houses in the 19th and 20th century and the social relations established between the countryside. The research results intend to demonstrate that the Officina Graphica EDDA productions contributed to the dissemination of the written culture, through the styles and graphic techniques of illustration, by the representation of an editorial model characteristics and that evidenced production structures and printing technologies of the time. In addition, these factors combined contribute to the constitution of Officina Graphica EDDA editorial history in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul