Baltimore No. 10 press
date: label: Date made
content: after 1890
name: label: maker
content: Baumgarten
label: maker
content: Baumgarten
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This self-inking lever press with original box was made by the Baumgarten company of Baltimore, after 1890. The press is cast in platen back, reading “BALTIMORE.” Its roller is missing. The press has a height of 9 inches a width of 7 inches and a length of 13 inches. The chase measures 2.5 inches by 4 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Baumgarten company produced a line of presses exactly parallel to those of another Baltimore press maker, the Dorman company, but used the name Baltimore instead of Baltimorean, and made minor changes in the castings.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Alan Darby, 1992.
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: Maryland, Baltimore
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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: 1992.0608.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0608.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0608
objectType: 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: 9 in x 7 in x 13 in; 22.86 cm x 17.78 cm x 33.02 cm