Presses Collection

Bookbinding Tools 1875
Various tools used in bookbinding, including a pair of compasses, a mallet, presses, a knife, a set square, needle and thread, and a gouge

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s

Printing equipment at a German printer s
A flat-bed press and other printing equipment in a German printers workshop (Buchdruckerwerkstatte)

Japan, Imperial Mint, Osaka - Rolling Mills, Cutting Presses
Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - Rolling Mills, and the Cutting-out Presses. Date: circa 1910s

Printing presses, Liverpool Express and Weekly Courier Newspaper, Liverpool

Coining presses United States Mint Philadelphia USA early 1900s

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (The calavera of popular editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo)

London Evening News final issue
Printworkers show the final issue of the London Evening News before its merger with rival newspaper the Evening Standard. The first issue had appeared on 26 July 1881

Newspaper press linotype operator
A linotype operator in a newspaper printing room Date: 1960s

DEATH/MOURNING/MILK
A Native Canadian couple mourn their dead child : she presses onto the tomb some of the milk which should have been the baby's nourishment Date: 1781

Advertisement for Everitt trouser presses complete with new comfort screws, greatly improved appearance, and an all steel black finish. Splendid for ensuring razor sharp creases in your trousers

Advert, Waterlow & Sons, Patent Letter Copying Presses, mahogany stands, stationery cases, etc. 1854

Patent letter-copying presses. 1854

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, hydraulic presses for extracting cocoa butter. 1893

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

Showroom Window Date: 1938

The Illustrated London News at Milford Lane 1851
The Illustrated London News, a weekly news magazine, was published from 198 Strand on the corner with Milford Lane and as the paper expanded it acquired Milford House and other buildings in the lane

Launching Control Officer, 2nd Lt D. H. Turner, of the 3?
Launching Control Officer, 2nd Lt D.H. Turner, of the 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment of the Royal Artillery at Ty Croes, North Wales

The Royal Mint - The Medal Presses. Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling (fine) Date: circa 1908

The Royal Mint - Gold Rolling. Date: circa 1908

Albion Printing Press
An Albion press by Hopkinson and Cope of Finsbury, London. A very well-made and popular press, still in use amongst artists and printers today. Date: 1851

Olive Press to make Olive Oil
Olive Press Date: 1811

Interior of a printing press in the early modern age. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, The Alien Room
THE ALIEN ROOM - Climbers find a spaceship on Everest - they enter it, one of them presses a button and whoosh ! off to Outer Space !

Welchs Table-Cloth Printing Works, showing embossing presses, dye wheel, beck, and printing by hand. 1852

Battery of metal Presses at Ford Motor Works, Dagenham. Date: circa 1937

Common printing press, 1811
Common hand printing press in 1811 Date: 1811

Mumms Presses
Presses at Mumm s, Avise. Date: 1914

Hoe Ten Feeder / Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph ten- feeder printing machine, manufactured by Hoe & Co. USA. Date: 1860

Printing. Printmaker of etching. 1641. Engraving

Toadheaded Agamid Lizard - uses its camouflage colouring to hide - presses itself into the sand (Phrynocephalus mistaceus). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside Ironing Room
The ironing room at Dr Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside, Essex. Sheets, fresh from the laundry, are ironed in large presses. Date: Date unknown

The Keystone Wringer, the best in the world. By F.F. Adams & Co

Alexis Hallette
ALEXIS HALLETTE - French engineer / inventor : his workshops produced hardware from boats to carriages, his great claim to fame is in presses for oil / fruit juice. Date: 1788 - 1846

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Screw Presses Date: circa 1910s

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Spain (1808). Constitution of Bayonne. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Printing workshop (18th c. ). Engraving
Printing workshop (18th c.). Engraving

French Presses 18th C
Two wine presses in France in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Reed Paper Group advertisement in ILN Coronation number
Advertisement for Reed Paper Group, supplier of specialist paper to the publishing industry, featuring an illustration of a worker checking a Coronation issue as it comes off the printing presses

Patent hydraulic press, vertical and plan sections

Untitled, hydraulic press, details

Patent hydraulic press, vertical sections Date: 1862

Untitled, patent hydraulic press

R Wilsons patent improved, horizontal packing press, plan, side elevation and sections

Printers
American Type Founders Co. Printing machines and presses

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