Advertising brochure for the Lowe Press from the Lowe Printing Company, Boston, about 1860
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Samuel W.
label: manufacturer
content: Watson, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Five sizes of the Lowe printing press with kits were sold, with printing beds of between five by six inches and thirteen by seventeen inches. These dimensions reflect the range of sizes for completed printed documents.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: used
content: Civil War
label: used
content: Printing
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Military
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Civil War Field Printing
label: Exhibition
content: Printing at Home
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0162.013
label: accession number
content: 2007.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0162.013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leaflet
label: Object Type
content: Letterpress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 15 cm; 9 7/16 in x 5 7/8 in