Old-time Presses In A Modern World

Baltimore's Museum of Industry features several authentic 19th-century machines—an 1828 Hoe's Acorn press on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, an 1870 Prouty "portable" press (Rev. Enoch Prouty designed it to easily dismantle for his traveling ministry), a Chandler & Price-Gordon press, a 1925 Linotype machine used at the federal Bureau of Engraving and several proof presses from the 19th and 20th centuries.