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Example of a Printing Press

The Washington Hand Press continued to be a popular printing press for newspaper publishers on the frontier, even after the city newspapers had switched to the faster, but larger and more expensive, power presses. From An Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia, or the Printer's instructor by J. Johnson (Boston, C.L. Adams, 1828), 306.

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