Pressroom & Machinery
Albion and the Press Lever
The Albion press is easiest to understand when it is treated as a working arrangement rather than as a sculptural object. A frame holds a bed and a platen in…
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Pressroom & Machinery
Machines, shop practice, and the people who bring a press into use.
Pressroom & Machinery
Kelmscott and the Goudy Albion
The press shown here is identified in its Commons file record as the Kelmscott–Goudy press at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. RIT’s collection record gives the…
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Babcock’s 1857 Jobbing Press
The file record for this cover identifies a Babcock jobbing press dated 1857. Its subject is a useful doorway into a part of printing that can disappear from…
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The Heidelberg Platen Press
The Heidelberg press pictured here belongs to the platen family, a group in which a flat printing surface and a flat bed meet to make an impression. RIT’s Cary…
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The Columbian Press and Leverage
The Columbian press belongs to the history of iron handpresses, where changing the way force was applied allowed printers to make larger impressions than the older…
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Marinoni’s Rotary Letterpress
The Marinoni press in this cover is described in its Commons record as a rotary letterpress dating to about 1883. The National Museum of American History’s history…
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A Jobbing Press in Colombo
The cover record identifies this jobbing press as a machine made by Harrild & Sons in London and found at the Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. That caption…
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Letterpress as a Teaching Practice
The cover image documents a letterpress printing session at Washington University in St. Louis during the 2011 Southern Graphics Council International conference.…
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Samaja Press and Odia Printing
The image record describes the machine shown here as a 1919 letterpress at Samaja Press in Cuttack, Odisha, and identifies it as one of the early machines used for…
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A Pressman at the Cocce Press
The Library of Congress record for this Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photograph identifies a New York pressman at the Cocce press on…
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