Lowe Press No. 2 press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
label: patent date
content: 1856
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Samuel W.
notes: label: Description
content: Samuel W. Lowe of Philadelphia invented the Lowe printing press, an unusual conical cylinder press patented in 1856. Like Adams's Cottage printing press, it did not include a frisket and included an automatic tympan. The rights for the press were sold in 1858 to Joseph Watson, who marketed both presses in Boston and Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: The Lowe printing press does not appear to have been as heavily advertised as the Adams, although the company notes that <i>we have sold many presses … to druggists … in this country and in other lands. Every boy and business man seems to be having one.</i>
label: Description
content: As for portability, the Lowe was more than a third lighter than the Adams, ranging from between 12 and 120 pounds as compared to Adams's press at between 100 and 400 pounds. The Lowe used a simpler frame and relatively thin castings.
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: Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection
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content: Civil War Field Printing
label: Exhibition
content: Printing at Home
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hennage
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0650.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0650
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0650.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Letterpress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 14 1/2 in x 26 in; 24.765 cm x 36.83 cm x 66.04 cm