Page from an advertising brochure for the Lowe Press manufactured by the Lowe Printing Company, Boston, about 1865

Description:

One of the Lowe printing press advertisements included examples of the fonts of type available for sale with the Lowe Press kits. They were sold with three sizes and three fonts of type, described as both plain and fancy.

The brochure reads: We have sold many Presses to the Army and Navy, to printers, druggists, medicine dealers, merchants, clergymen, lawyers, mechanics . . . in the country, the Canadas, and in other lands.

Date Made: 1865

Maker: Lowe, Samuel W.Manufacturer: Watson, Joseph

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston

Used: PrintingSubject: Civil War

Subject:

See more items in: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts, Communications, Civil War Field Printing

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2007.0162.014Accession Number: 2007.0162Catalog Number: 2007.0162.014

Object Name: pamphletObject Type: Letterpress

Physical Description: paper (overall material)ink (overall material)Measurements: overall: 22 cm x 15 cm; 8 11/16 in x 5 7/8 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-56ae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1334705

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