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Graphic Communications Through the Ages: Kimberly-Clark paintings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CSC-0018
Overview

The collection consists of 24 paintings illustrating the history methods for illustrating the written word developed between 950 B.C. and the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1966-1971

Acorn Handpress, 1825

 Item
Overview The Acorn Handpress is believed to have been manufactured by the Cincinnati Type Foundry in 1825-1830. As Cincinnati Type Foundry was founded in the early 1820s, this Acorn press is one of their earlier pieces. Unlike other iron hand presses that sought to imitate the wooden common presses that came before them, the Acorn press is a squat press shaped somewhat like an acorn, thus the name. The acorn design most often made by Cincinnati Type Foundry was the one created by Abraham O. Stansbury...
Dates: 1825

Daughaday Model Job Press No. 3, 1880

 Item
Overview

Daughaday manufactured jobbing platen presses from 1874 to 1900. Around this time, small platen presses manufactured for the use of amateur printers gained popularity. The Model style of press went in a different direction encouraging amateurs to enter the commercial world with a larger press. The Model was available in seven size variants, four hand-operated and three treadle-operated. The no. 3 is a freestanding model suitable for small booklet and flyer work.

Dates: 1880

Golding Tabletop Platen Press

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Overview

The Golding Tabletop Platen Press...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850 - 2018

Daughaday Model 1 Improved Tabletop Platen Press, 1874

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Overview

The Daughaday Model 1 Improved Tabletop Platen Press was manufactured around 1874. In the mid-1800s, small platen presses manufactured for the use of amateur printers gained popularity. The Model style of press went in a different direction encouraging amateurs to enter the commercial world with a larger press. The Model was available in seven size variants, four hand-operated and three treadle-operated. The no. 1 is a tabletop model.

Dates: 1874

Craftsmen Imperial Tabletop Press, 1950

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Overview

The Craftsmen Imperial Tabletop Press was produced around 1950 by the Craftsmen Machinery Company. This company produced presses very similar to those made during the small-press era of the 1800s. The Imperial was a tabletop model.

Dates: 1950

RIT MechE Tabletop Platen Press, 2015

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Overview

The RIT MechE Tabletop Platen Press was desgined and constructed in 2014-2015 by RIT Engineering students George Chiu, Brendan Domos, Spencer Herzog, Nathan Sandidge, and Kevin Weinstein. The work was completed to fulfill a multi-disciplinary engineering project. It is a hand-operated platen press.

Dates: 2015

Original Heidelberg Platen Press (Windmill), 1956

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Overview

The Original Heidelberg Platen Press was manufactured around 1956. The Heidelberg company began experimenting with an automatic platen in 1912. In 1925, thie style of press came to be known as the Heidelberg, later nicknamed the Windmill for its paper feed arm, which moves in a cyclical motion.

Dates: 1956

Curtis & Mitchell Columbian No. 2 Tabletop Platen Press

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Overview

The Curtis & Mitchell Columbian No. 2 Tabletop Platen Press was produced between 1878 and the 1890s. The name Columbian was used for a variety of press styles, but the Curtis & Mitchell model was a jobbing platen press.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850 - 2018

Merritt Galley's Universal Press, 1860

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Overview

The Universal Press was invented by Merrit Galley in 1869. It was the first of its type of press, having a stationary bed and a platen that rolled to a vertical position before gliding forward so that right before the impression, the platen was parallel to the bed and moved perpendicularly towards it. The standard disk and roller inking method is also changed, having instead a full-width fountain and distributors that transferred ink to a large drum where it was picked up by form-rollers.

Dates: 1860

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