Page from an advertising brochure for the Lowe Press manufactured by the Lowe Printing Company, Boston, about 1865
date: label: date made
content: 1865
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Samuel W.
label: manufacturer
content: Watson, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: One of the Lowe printing press advertisements included examples of the fonts of type available for sale with the Lowe Press kits. They were sold with three sizes and three fonts of type, described as both plain and fancy.
label: Description
content: The brochure reads: <I>We have sold many Presses to the Army and Navy, to printers, druggists, medicine dealers, merchants, clergymen, lawyers, mechanics . . . in the country, the Canadas, and in other lands.</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: used
content: Printing
label: Subject
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Civil War Field Printing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0162.014
label: accession number
content: 2007.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0162.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
label: Object Type
content: Letterpress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 15 cm; 8 11/16 in x 5 7/8 in