For 138 years, Nashville print shop Hatch Show Print has been printing posters for big names in the music industry. CK Photo/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum The pressure of the press transfers ink from the blocks of type and imagery to the paper, one color at a time, one piece of paper at a time. Donn Jones/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum In the mid-20th century, Hatch Show Print printed posters for a local RV dealer who hired music stars to "christen" the trailers. Courtesy Hatch Show Print Imagery is carved into wooden blocks. The shop has a vast archive of blocks featuring images such as "man playing bass" and "girl & guy w/ piano." CK Photo/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum This 2009 poster for a Dolly Parton show in London is among the many posters the shop has produced since it was founded in 1879. Courtesy Hatch Show Print This Hatch Show Print poster was created in 2015 to sell in the gift shop of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Courtesy Hatch Show Print The shop moved in 2013 to its current spot next to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Gaylord Entertainment donated Hatch to the museum in the 1990s. Brasfield and Gorrie/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum This poster is a restrike of a Hatch Show Print poster for a 1967 Johnny Cash show in Minneapolis. Courtesy Hatch Show Print Wooden and metal lettering is hand-set to create the type seen on a wide range of promotional posters. Courtesy Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum A custom Hatch Show Print for Bob Dylan and the Brian Setzer Orchestra for a show at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on February 6, 1999. Courtesy Hatch Show Print A custom Hatch Show Print for a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York with The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn and Blanche in 2003 Courtesy Hatch Show Print A custom Hatch Show Print to commemorate an evening with Willie Nelson on July 18, 2005, at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. Courtesy Hatch Show Print Prev Next