Hand press, Fuchs & Lang
date: label: Date made
content: circa 1905
label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: Fuchs and Lang Manufacturing Company
label: maker
content: Fuchs and Lang Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This lithographic hand press, model 2, no. 6828, was made by Fuchs & Lang, of Rutherford, New Jersey, in about 1905; its bed has a width of 23 inches and a length of 28 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This press is typical of the hand presses known to many lithographers today as transfer presses, but was originally used for direct printing. Presses of this pattern were known in the United States from the 1870s, and earlier. The leather-covered scraper in its adjustable support hangs over the stone, which is covered with an oiled tympan sheet of thin metal. Lowering the long lever raises the press bed to bring the stone and scraper together. Then the crank is turned to move the bed and stone under the pressing scraper.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Fuchs & Lang set up shop in 1870 as suppliers of bronzing powders; they were building machines by 1893.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Piedmont Label Company, 1961.
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 Jersey, Rutherford
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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.21024
label: catalog number
content: GA*21024
label: accession number
content: 237315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
label: Other Terms
content: Press, Printing; Printing; Lithographic; Flatbed Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 28 in; 58.42 cm x 71.12 cm