Reconstruction: A structure built to copy an original building on its original site. The Print House you see at the museum is not the original, but was built to show how we think the building looked in the 1680s and 1690s.
What types of documents were illegal? Those that spoke against the government, criticized, or wanted to overthrow the government.
License: Permission given by the government to do something.
Proclamation: An official law or rule.
Proprietary colony: A colony (Maryland) owned and governed by a private citizen such as Lord Baltimore.
Imprint: A document made by pressing ink onto paper to create marks (such as with a printing press).
Type: The lead letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces used with a printing press to form the words in a document.
Trade: The practice of some occupation, business, or profession as a way of making a living.
Ordinary: A 17th-century inn, where the price of lodging and food was regulated or controlled by the government.
Master printer: One who has completed his period of learning and practices a trade, craft, or profession. A master also owns his own business.
Apprentice: One who works for a master and learns a trade, craft, or profession from him.
Archaeologist: A scientist who learns about the past by studying artifacts such as tools, pottery, and other things left behind.
Artifact: Any object made or used by humans.
Bill obligatory: A document which stated that a person was required to repay someone at a later time for the goods or services received.
Credit: The ability to receive goods or services with a promise to pay later.
Dogears: Thick pieces of paper that held in place on the tympan the paper to be printed.
License: Permission given by the government to do something.
