Hoe Railway press
date: label: Date made
content: after 1862
name: label: maker
content: R. Hoe & Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This flatbed stop-cylinder, cylinder press was made by R. Hoe & Company after 1862; the crank handle is missing. The press bed measures 31 inches by 46 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Railway press, introduced in 1862, was designed for newspapers of medium circulation. Its name derived from the fact that the bed was carried back and forth on a four-wheel truck running on two strong rails, an arrangement based on presses built by the French engineer,
label: Description (Brief)
content: Marinoni. The Railway was a “country press” made to be turned by hand. It could deliver up to 800 impressions per hour. The press was built in Hoe’s Boston plant and cost $1,350 new. Printed newspaper sheets were normally carried around the press on cloth tapes and delivered by mechanical sheet flyers. For posters with large wooden type and no gutter space on the page for the tapes, the sheets were “flown” by press boys.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robinson, 1971.
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: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.23275
label: accession number
content: 297416
label: catalog number
content: 23275
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
label: Object Name
content: printing press, parts of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: press: 31 in x 46 in; 78.74 cm x 116.84 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: largest part: 3 1/2 in x 26 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 67.31 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: smallest part: 3/8 in x 3/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm