Advertisement for the Adams Cottage Press, about 1864
date: label: date made
content: ca 1864
name: label: manufacturer
content: Adams Press Company
label: manufacturer
content: Watson, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Kits for the Adams Cottage Press were sold in five different sizes, enabling the production of different-sized documents. The kits, along with the press, included printing equipment such as type, rollers, and ink.
label: Description
content: The advertisement reads: <I>To the army and navy . . . they will be found very useful. They can be packed within the compass of a common traveling trunk, and transported any distance without injury. We have supplied quite a number of regiments with portable printing offices, and they have given universal satisfaction. Rear-Admirals Farragut, Goldsborough and Bailey have each one of our printing offices in their respective fleets.</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: used
content: Printing
label: used
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Military
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Civil War Field Printing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0162.011
label: accession number
content: 2007.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0162.011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: advertisement
label: Object Type
content: Letterpress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 16 cm; 9 1/16 in x 6 5/16 in