From 1879 through most of the twentieth century, Hatch Show Print’s vibrant posters served as a leading advertising medium for southern entertainment, ranging from vaudeville and minstrel shows to magicians and opera singers, from Negro League baseball games to B-movies, from members of the Grand Ole Opry like Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl and Ernest Tubb, to rock & roll impresarios such as Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.

Today, musicians and entertainers, businesses and organizations, from around the world call on Hatch Show Print to design and print eye-catching, iconic posters, drawing on the shop’s incredible archive of wood type and imagery.

Take a tour of Hatch Show Print and learn all about the history of this iconic letterpress poster shop. Listen to the presses run. See the century-and-a-half’s worth of brilliantly colored posters printed for your favorite entertainers. Smell the ink. Handle the tools of the trade and print your own keepsake poster.

Hatch Show Print is located in the 5th Avenue lobby of the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum building.