Kelton press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Kelton Machine Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This copperplate press with pulleys and frame to lift its blankets was manufactured from about 1900. It is marked in the casting “Kelton Machine Co. 76 South 8th St. Brooklyn N.Y.” The press bed measures 20 inches by 48 inches; its cylinder diameter measures 6 inches; its length measures 20 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Jacob Kainen, 1969.
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, Brooklyn
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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.22684
label: accession number
content: 290263
label: catalog number
content: 22684
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Other Terms
content: printing; intaglio; flatbed cylinder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: plate: 20 in x 48 in; 50.8 cm x 121.92 cm