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"The Echo" Marinoni printing machine : at the International Exhibition

Author:
London International Exhibition (1872)  Search this
Physical description:
23 p. ; 13 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1872
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
Z249.E18
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_92684

A history of printing ink, balls and rollers, 1440-1850 [by] C.H. Bloy

Author:
Bloy, C. H (Colin H.)  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 147 p. 12 plates (incl. facsims.) 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1967
Topic:
Printing ink--History  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies--History  Search this
Call number:
TP949 .B65
TP949.B65
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_161203

A practical treatise upon modern printing machinery and letterpress printing. By Fred J.F. Wilson and Douglas Grey. Illus. with numerous engravings

Author:
Wilson, Fredk. J. F (Frederick John Farlow)  Search this
Grey, Douglas  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 455 p. incl. illus., plates. 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1888
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
Z249 .W74
Z249 .W74
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_129118

A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

Author:
Hoe, Robert 1839-1909  Search this
Physical description:
89, [2] p. incl. front., illus., plates. 27 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1902
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Hoe printing press  Search this
Call number:
Z249.H8H7X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_298502

Atlas des Zeitungs- und Illustrations- druckes

Author:
Braun, Alexander  Search this
Physical description:
222 p. illus. (1 col.) 30 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1960
[1960]
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Printing  Search this
Call number:
Z249 .B82
Z249.B82
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_161023

CATALOGUE AND SPECIMEN BOOK, KEYSTONE PRODUCTS CONSISTING OF TYPE, MATERIAL FURNITURE..

Author:
KEYSTONE TYPE FOUNDRY  Search this
Type:
Books
Trade catalogs
Date:
1910
CA 1910
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
016425
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_224676

Catalogue of printing presses, and printers' materials / R. Hoe & Co. ; with a new introd. by Frank E. Comparato

Author:
R. Hoe & Company  Search this
Subject:
R. Hoe & Company Catalogs  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Date:
1979
1979 [c1881]
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
Z249 .H7 1979X
Z249.H7 1979X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_123760

Competition calls for some sharp thinking by your printers

Author:
Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc  Search this
Type:
Books
Trade catalogs
Date:
Nd
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
38760
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_302288

Competition calls for some sharp thinking by your printers

Author:
Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc  Search this
Type:
Books
Trade catalogs
Date:
Nd
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
38760
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_302287

Design with type planning book : specimens of American Type Founders type faces

Title:
Specimens of American Type Founders type faces
Author:
American Type Founders Company  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (loose-leaf) : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm
Type:
Specimens
Catalogs
Date:
1955
C1955
Topic:
Printing  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
Z250.A5 A44 1955
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_525069

Dexter re-loading press feeding machines

Author:
Dexter Folder Co  Search this
Type:
Books
Trade catalogs
Date:
1914
Ca1914
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
26224
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_234878

Distinguished composition on the linotype

Author:
Mergenthaler Linotype Company  Search this
Physical description:
1 portfolio (9 pamphlets) : ill. ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1927
[1927?]
Topic:
Linotype  Search this
Printing  Search this
Type and type-founding  Search this
Typesetting machines  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
Z253 .D614d 1927
Z253.D614d 1927
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_361136

Dr. Church's "Hoax" : an assessment of Dr. William Church's typographical inventions in which is enunciated Church's Law / by Richard E. Huss

Author:
Huss, Richard E  Search this
Subject:
Church, William 1779-1863  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 78 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1976
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Typesetting machines  Search this
Call number:
Z249 .H97
Z249.H97
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_79917

Flexographic printing / by F.E. Boughton

Author:
Boughton, F. E  Search this
Physical description:
iii, 121 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1958
Topic:
Printing  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1079608

Harris Automatic Press Company Records

Creator:
GSS Printing Equipment Company.  Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Information Technology and Communications  Search this
Harris Automatic Press Company, Dayton, Ohio  Search this
Extent:
6.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes and 5 oversize folders)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Photograph albums
Newsletters
Photographs
Blueprints
Catalogs
Date:
2003 - 2003
1889 - 1995
Summary:
Collection documents the Harris Automatic Press Company, manufacturers of a printing press with an automatic feed primarily through drawings and photographs.
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains photographs of the presses, factory and employees; a scrapbook of presses, 1915; drawings; trade literature and catalogs; the Harris Impressions newsletter; blueprints of the presses; and histories of the company.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1: Background Materials, 1889-1995

Series 2: Drawings, 1896-1929

Series 3: Photographs, 1921-1968; 2003
Biographical / Historical:
In 1890 jewelers and tinkerers Alfred and Charles G. Harris developed a new printing press with an automatic feeder. Their first press was a revolutionary breakthrough, delivering ten times what a pressman could feed by hand. The Harris Automatic Press Company was responsible for many printing innovations during the early 1900s including the first commercially successful offset lithographic press and the first two-color offset press. The company became one of the world's largest and most successful manufacturers of printing equipment.

Harris-Seybold Company (later Harris Intertype) of Cleveland, Ohio manufactured high-quality sheetfed offset lithographic printing presses. The Harris Automatic Press Co. of Niles, Ohio (the original company name) designed and built the first commercially successful sheetfed offset lithographic printing press in 1906. It was sold to the Republic Banknote Company (later became part of U.S. Banknote Corporation) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shipped on July 26, 1906. This printing press was retired in August 1940, rebuilt by Harris and donated to the Smithsonian Institution. From 1906 to 1976, Harris manufactured thousands of lithographic printing presses in various models and sizes along with various designs of bindery equipment. They were leaders in offset lithography technology. Many of the sheetfed offset lithographic presses presently being manufactured use some form of the early Harris innovations. In 1957, the company name was changed to Harris Intertype Corporation and in 1974 the name was changed to Harris Corporation. At this time the company was comprised of several electronic divisions in addition to the printing equipment divisions. The company stopped production of sheetfed lithographic printing presses in 1976. The corporate offices moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Melbourne, Florida in 1978 where Harris Corporation is still located. Harris Corporation disposed of its printing equipment plants in 1984 in a leverage buyout. Heidelberg (Germany) purchased some of the printing manufacturing plants in the late 1990s.
Provenance:
Collection donated by GSS Printing Equipment.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Printing industry  Search this
Printing  Search this
Offset printing  Search this
Inventors  Search this
Printing -- Instruments  Search this
Printing -- History  Search this
Printing presses  Search this
Genre/Form:
Scrapbooks -- 20th century
Photograph albums -- 20th century
Newsletters -- 1900-1950
Photographs -- 1900-1950
Blueprints
Catalogs
Citation:
Harris Automatic Press Company Records, 1889-1995; 2003 Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0928
See more items in:
Harris Automatic Press Company Records
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8695bb213-f38b-4b09-a1bd-c6fc03659a61
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0928

Hugh McLellan Southgate collection

Creator:
United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing  Search this
Bureau Issues Association  Search this
United States. Post Office Dept.  Search this
Southgate, H. M. (Hugh McLellan), 1871-1940  Search this
Associated name:
Sloane, George B.  Search this
Names:
United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing  Search this
United States. Post Office Dept.  Search this
Former owner:
Brett, George W.  Search this
Extent:
27 Volumes (approximately 6,900 p.; 1 index v., 29 cm. +)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Volumes
Date:
[189-?]-1940
Summary:
The collection consists chiefly of hand-written notes made by Southgate on a wide range of postal history topics and related matters, generally on lined or graph paper measuring 25 x 15 cm. or smaller, for keeping in triple-post binders. Some of the notes were made in "Lefax" or other commercially-available notebooks. The collection includes numerous mounted newsclippings, brochures, and excerpted articles from philatelic journals, as well as statistical data, advertisements, copies of correspondence, and diagrams made by Southgate to illustrate plate variations, etc.
Biographical/Historical note:
Hugh McLellan Southgate (b. Sept. 3, 1871; d. Oct. 23, 1940), a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was an important postage stamp collector and an active member of several philatelic societies. He was a founder and the first president of the Philatelic Plate Number Association (1926-1928), as well as the first president and chairman of the board (1930-1940) of its successor, the Bureau Issues Association (now the United States Stamp Society). He was also an authority on the printing of stamps by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
General note:
Each leaf containing data has been photocopied from the original notebooks, with the exception of v. 5, which consists entirely of a printed checklist of Bureau of Engraving and Printing precancels and Presidential series for 1938-1940 (an index sheet noting the contents of v. 5 is present, only).
The presence of blank leaves in the original notebooks is noted in the index sheets and the finding aid.
Local Notes:
The volumes are numbered 1 through 26, plus a miscellaneous compilation labelled "vol. xl" (or "HMS notebook prelim. no. 1" by G.W. Brett). There is also a separate index volume containing copies of all the index sheets that Brett created to serve as tables of contents for each volume in the collection.
Provenance:
George W. Brett, gift, 2005?
Topic:
Covers (Philately) -- United States  Search this
Precancels -- United States  Search this
Cancellations (Philately)  Search this
Revenue stamps -- United States  Search this
Postage stamps -- Forgeries  Search this
Postage stamp design -- United States  Search this
Postage stamps -- United States -- History  Search this
Plate numbers (Postage stamps) -- United States  Search this
Postage-stamp printing  Search this
Stamp collectors  Search this
Stamp collecting  Search this
Air mail stamps -- United States  Search this
Commemorative postage stamps -- United States  Search this
Playing cards -- United States  Search this
Postal service -- United States -- History  Search this
Duck stamps -- United States  Search this
Savings bonds -- United States  Search this
Postal service -- United States -- Metered mail  Search this
Postcards -- United States  Search this
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Envelopes (Stationery)  Search this
Postal service -- Equipment and supplies  Search this
Identifier:
SIL-NPM.XXXX-0012
Archival Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sc2fa496c8d-713b-4f0e-bcb9-0d5d10c6466c
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-sil-npm-xxxx-0012

Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery and Supplies

Maker:
American Type Founders Company  Search this
Measurements:
overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 22.225 cm x 15.875 cm x 1.905 cm
Object Name:
Book
Date made:
1897
Credit Line:
Douglas D. and Lloyd Morgan
ID Number:
1982.0187.00619
Accession number:
1982.0187
Catalog number:
1982.0187.00619
See more items in:
Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-4b74-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_825497
Online Media:

Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery and Supplies, Wood Goods and Wood Type, Fine Printing Inks...

Maker:
American Type Founders Company  Search this
Measurements:
overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 22.225 cm x 16.51 cm x 1.905 cm
Object Name:
Book
Date made:
1897
Credit Line:
Douglas D. and Lloyd Morgan
ID Number:
1982.0187.01057
Accession number:
1982.0187
Catalog number:
1982.0187.01057
See more items in:
Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-48d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_825504
Online Media:

Illustrated catalogue and price list of printing material, printers supplies / American Type Founders Company

Author:
American Type Founders Company  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Specimens
Date:
1905
[1905?]
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Printing  Search this
Printers' ornaments--Catalogs  Search this
Type ornaments--Catalogs  Search this
Type and type-founding  Search this
Call number:
Z249 .A512
Z249.A512
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_148519

Illustrated catalogue and price list of..

Author:
THOMSON, JOHN, PRESS CO  Search this
Type:
Books
Trade catalogs
Date:
1896
Topic:
Printing machinery and supplies  Search this
Call number:
37735
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_286188

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