Challenge proof press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Challenge Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This bench-top roller proof press (no stand) was made about 1900. The press has a width of 10.5 inches and a length of 30 inches; its cylinder diameter is 9 inches; its bed measures 10 inches by 31 inches. It sports cast letters reading “Challenge,” for the Challenge Machinery Company, on the end of the bed.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Edward Alfriend, 1986.
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: 1986.0975.081
label: accession number
content: 1986.0975
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0975.081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Other Terms
content: Relief
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 10 1/2 in x 30 in; 12.7 cm x 26.67 cm x 76.2 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 2 in x 10 in x 31 in; 5.08 cm x 25.4 cm x 78.74 cm