Vandercook Rocking proof press
date: label: Date made
content: 1908
name: label: maker
content: Vandercook, Robert O.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This rocking proof press was made by Robert O. Vandercook in 1908. It is missing its feed table, but includes a side casting reading: “VANDERCOOK PRESS PAT APLD FOR.” The press has a height of 13 inches a width of 13 inches and a length of 18.5 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Robert Vandercook’s famous line of cylinder proof presses was introduced in 1908 with this unusual rocking proofer. The cylinder—in reality, a segment of a cylinder—is geared on both sides to tracks on the bed. Wheels at the axis of the cylinder run under shelves on the frame to hold the cylinder down against the type.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by the Vandercook Division of ITW Inc., 1973.
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: Illinois, Chicago
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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.23750
label: accession number
content: 304737
label: catalog number
content: 23750
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 13 in x 18 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 33.02 cm x 46.99 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 19 in x 13 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 48.26 cm x 34.29 cm