1992.314.7

Embossing plate, The Lighthouse alphabet card

Embossing plate, The Lighthouse, American Braille alphabet card; produced from hand set type pressed into foil and mounted on a sheet of tinplate;

H-7 W-10.625 inches

1913

American Printing House for the Blind

Louisville, KY

1885 Annual Report: "The unique method of stereotyping, by which is secured a flexible stereotype plate, made of tin foil, amalgamated to a sheet of ordinary roofing tin, is the quickest, and cheapest, and for embossing work the best method in use. The double-cylinder press, made from special designs, prints four pages at every revolution, and will make thirty or more revolutions a minute. The flexible plates adapt themselves to the cylinders without any planing, and the character of the embossing speaks for itself."

APH Collection, 1992.314