Printing Press Collection

Gutenbergs printing press, 1450s
Gutenberg and Fust with the first printing press, Germany, 1450s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cylinder printing press, 1800s
Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Book and magazine printing press at Harper & Bros. New York City, early 1900s. Printed halftone of a photograph

Printing the Gutenberg Bible, 1453
The first proof sheet from Gutenbergs press, 1453. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

William Caxton, the first English printer
William Caxton examining his first proof sheet in Westminster Abbey, England, 1475. Printed reproduction of a color lithograph illustration

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Gutenbergs printing press, Mainz, Germany, 1450s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Johannes Gutenberg examining a proof. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th century illustration

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Typesetters and printers at work in a print shop, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration by A. B. Frost

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Benjamin Franklins Ramage printing press. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Stephen Dayes press, the first printing press in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1640. Hand-colored woodcut

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Joseph Pulitzer holding a press printing the New York " World" newspaper 1901. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration

Freedmen in printing class at Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1870s
Former slaves learning printing at Hampton Institute in Virginia, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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