Object ID:
2011.52.2
Title:
Cylinder Press at APH
Photographer:
Unknown
Place:
Louisville, KY/American Printing House for the Blind
Date:
ca. 1928
Description:
Black-and-white glossy photo shows a man, who is wearing a visor, checking braille pages at a double-cylinder press. In the background, at right, is the earlier Ruggles press.
As part of Superintendent E.E. Bramlette's efforts in 1928 to begin interpointing--embossing braille on both sides of a page--he worked with Louisville machine tool company W.R. Martin Company to develop a new rotary press. "We also found it necessary to devise a new press for the rapid printing of the interpoint or two-side printing. The great speed of this press is most important for printing of magazines, as well as books, for it will print more than 9,000 pages an hour." E.E. Bramlette, 1928.
As part of Superintendent E.E. Bramlette's efforts in 1928 to begin interpointing--embossing braille on both sides of a page--he worked with Louisville machine tool company W.R. Martin Company to develop a new rotary press. "We also found it necessary to devise a new press for the rapid printing of the interpoint or two-side printing. The great speed of this press is most important for printing of magazines, as well as books, for it will print more than 9,000 pages an hour." E.E. Bramlette, 1928.
Medium:
Photographic Paper
Print Size:
7.25" (h) x 9.75" (w)
Provenance:
Photograph was received from within APH, exact date and source not known.
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Cylinder Press, ca. 1928
Cylinder Press, ca. 1928