Lithographic offset press, portable
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is small, aluminum press, is dismantled and boxed, with accessories and an instruction booklet. The press was made in about 1940. The assembled press has a height of 11 inches a length of 14 inches and a width of 10.5 inches. Its box measures 13 inches high by 12.5 inches wide and 12.5 inches deep.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The little press was made for underground use in the Second World War; it came to the Museum under the name “X press.” There is no maker’s name on the press or its accessories, but the anonymous instruction booklet is printed on paper with the eagle watermark of the U.S. Government.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Lt. Col. Charles T. R. Bohannan, 1978.
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.24879.01
label: catalog number
content: 24879.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in x 10 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm x 26.67 cm