Daisy press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Ives, Blakeslee & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This rail press, on a Museum-made base, has an unknown maker; it dates from about 1885. The press has a height of 4 inches a width of 3.5 inches and a length of 9 inches; its chase measures 1.5 inches by 2.75 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The press like other Daisys, the Bonanza, and the Favorite were probably all made by Ives, Blakeslee of New York (later Ives Blakeslee Williams). The company dealt in novelties and was the principal distributing—and perhaps manufacturing—company for rail presses at the end of the nineteenth century. Their line included presses called the Boss, the Favorite, the Daisy, the Leader, and other very similar rail presses.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by William Miner, 1976.
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: New York, New York
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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.24232
label: accession number
content: 322684
label: catalog number
content: 24232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Object Name
content: press, printing, miniature
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 1/2 in x 9 in; 10.16 cm x 8.89 cm x 22.86 cm