Pull-down jobber
date: label: Date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This hand lever press dates from the late 19th century. Its toggle is broken and its feed table is missing. The press has a height of 45 inches a width (without handle) of 26 inches and a depth of 23 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The press of uncertain history and function may have been
label: Description (Brief)
content: an electrotyper’s moulding press for making a wax mould from a
label: Description (Brief)
content: type form. It came to the Museum under the name “pull-down
label: Description (Brief)
content: jobber.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Lowering the handle straightens the main toggle, which in turn
label: Description (Brief)
content: pulls the thick wooden slab down against the fixed bed.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Purchased from John Lant, 1901.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Citation: Elizabeth Harris, "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection," 1996.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.09288
label: accession number
content: 36751
label: catalog number
content: GA*09288
label: catalog number
content: 9288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
label: Object Name
content: Machine, Printing Press(?)
label: Other Terms
content: Press, Printin; Press, Printing; Machine, Printing Press(?); Relief
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in x 26 in x 23 in; 114.3 cm x 66.04 cm x 58.42 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in x 26 in x 23 in; 114.3 cm x 66.04 cm x 58.42 cm