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Ishill is primarily known for the limited, private editions that he and
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Florence Freeman-Ishill founded The Oriole Press, essentially renaming their prior endeavor, Free Spirit Press, in 1926. Although Joseph Ishill is singularly credited with running The Oriole Press, Rose Freeman-Ishill regularly worked as translator, and copyedited most or all
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in New York City, making a daily commute from his rural home. He spent his evenings working on his own printing projects, focusing later in his life on producing small, private editions of work by accomplished radical authors. Because he rarely sold the books and pamphlets for which he later became
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Ishill also kept up regular correspondence with many prominent international anarchist writers and activists of his era. He filed these letters meticulously, and later sold the collection to
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printer in residence in 1964. They soon returned to
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