Harper's Weekly, November 22, 1862
Harper's Weekly, November 22, 1862
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- Description
- This advertisement in Harper’s Weekly for the Adams Cottage printing press appears to have introduced the press, as later advertisements became much smaller in size. One of the testimonials printed here from the quartermaster of the New York Volunteers reads that the press has done the work of the entire Brigade, Orders, Countersigns, Invoices, Receipts, &c.and that every quartermaster in the service [should] procure one immediately.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- newspaper
- Object Type
- Relief Processes
- date made
- 1862-11-22
- publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 45.5 cm x 31 cm; 17 15/16 in x 12 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 2009.0018.01
- accession number
- 2009.0018
- catalog number
- 2009.0018.01
- subject
- Newspaper
- Printing
- Civil War
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Civil War Field Printing
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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