Cincinnati Type Foundry Army Press, first manufactured in 1862
- Description
- Henry Barth of the Cincinnati Type Foundry designed this cylinder press, known as the Army Press, for use by the armed forces during the Civil War. To make up for lost business early in the war, the Foundry also manufactured bullets for the State of Indiana and Gatling guns used in the New Orleans campaign.
- The Army Press was listed as resembling the modern common hand press in having ways, bed, tympan and fisket and a rotating cylinder that, unlike the Adams's Cottage press, moved with the press bed.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- press, printing
- Object Type
- Letterpress
- date made
- ca 1862
- maker
- Barth, Henry
- manufacturer
- Cincinnati Type Foundry
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 7/8 in x 33 in x 27 in; 40.3225 cm x 83.82 cm x 68.58 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
- ID Number
- 2005.0133.01
- accession number
- 2005.0133
- catalog number
- 2005.0133.01
- subject
- Civil War
- Military
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Work
- Civil War Field Printing
- event
- Civil War
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Civil War Field Printing
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Homer Martin
- Additional Media
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