Favorite press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Ives, Blakeslee & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This rail press was sold by Ives Blakeslee of New York in about 1885. Its original box, with an advertizing label on the end, includes type and accessories. It is marked “IB.” The press has a height of 6 inches a width of 4 inches and a length of 11.5 inches; its chase measures 2 inches by 3.5 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Penny Speckter, 1988.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Citation: Elizabeth Harris, "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection," 1996.
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
label: Exhibition
content: Printing at Home
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0823.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0823
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0823.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Favorite
label: Object Name
content: press, printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast-iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 3/4 in; 29.21 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.065 cm