Hoe large cylinder press No. 82
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: maker
content: R. Hoe & Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This large cylinder single-revolution flatbed press, No. 82, was made by R. Hoe & Company of New York in about 1879; it bed dimensions are 19 inches by 25 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The first flatbed cylinder presses seen in the United States were English Napiers, imported in the 1820s. Robert Hoe copied a Napier in 1829 and produced a large cylinder press of his own design in 1830. Originally his press was to be manpowered, but a few years later it was converted to steam. The Single Large Cylinder proved to be the Hoe Company’s longest-lasting press.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The drum cylinder press was advertised for fine book and newspaper work. But cylinder presses had a reputation for breaking the brittle stereotype plates used in the publishing trade. So, until electrotyping was introduced in the mid-century, publishers preferred to protect their valuable stereotypes with the slower, safer, Adams bed-and-platen machine, and the cylinder press was left with job and newspaper work.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This model would print better than 1,000 impressions an hour. It cost about $1,500 in 1879, when it was purchased new by the Washington printers Judd & Detweiler.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Judd & Detweiler, 1968.
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, New York City
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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.22944
label: accession number
content: 281773
label: catalog number
content: GA*22944
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, printing
label: Other Terms
content: Press, printing; Printing; Relief; Flatbed Cylinder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 ft x 5 ft x 10 ft; 1.8288 m x 1.524 m x 3.048 m