Hatch Show Print Celebrates 145 Years

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Pictured (L-R): Mikala Kozuszek, Sarah Budeski, Rosa Jeffiers, Heather Moulder, Bailey Walters, Violet Stubbs, Celene Aubry (Director of Hatch Show Print and Shop Manager), Allyson Wherry, Jennifer Bronstein, Nick Larson, Jackson Haley, Michaela Tures and Sarah Edmonds. Photo: Courtesy of CMHOFM

Hatch Show Print is celebrating its 145th anniversary today (April 12).

Hatch Show Print was founded by brothers Charles and Herbert Hatch in 1879. The shop’s unique posters served as the leading advertising method for Southern Entertainment. The shop produced posters for many Grand Ole Opry members, including Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl, Ernest Tubb and more. They also served music stars Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Bessie Smith, among others. Thousands of posters and billboard-sized advertisements were printed for traveling vaudeville and minstrel shows, circuses and carnivals across the country. In 1992, Hatch Show Print became property of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (CMHOFM).

The company continues to create prints today, averaging between 700-900 designs a year. Recent clients consist of Gillian Welch, Guns N’ Roses, Willie Nelson, Yola, the NFL, Taschen Books, the U.S. Postal Service and more.

CMHOFM visitors can tour the Hatch Show Print shop for an inside look at poster creation and the history of the company as well as hand print their very own poster.

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