Etching press
date: label: Date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This copperplate press has an unknown maker of the late 19th century. The press has a bed of 40 inches long and 18 inches long; its cylinder diameter measures 7 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The simple star-wheel press has handsome castellated or castle-like ornamention on the frame-tops. It was used for many years as a proofing press in the Division of Graphic Arts printing shop.
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: 1995.0214.004
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0214.004
label: accession number
content: 1995.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
label: Object Name
content: press, copperplate
label: Other Terms
content: Press, Printing; Intaglio
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 79 in x 30 in x 6 in; 200.66 cm x 76.2 cm x 15.24 cm