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Letterpress copybooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Volumes containing reproductions of correspondence, made directly from originals through a transfer process. Using a screw-powered letter press in conjunction with a press book, a bound volume of blank, tissue paper pages. Letters written in special copying ink were placed on a dampened page. The book was then closed and the mechanical press screwed down tightly, causing the ink to be transferred to the bound page.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Correspondence, 1893 - 1922

 Series
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

This series consists of Arthur B. Morrill’s outgoing letters, lists of expenditures, lists of bills, lists of books ordered for the Model School, work reports lists of candidates for diplomas, lists of new students, summer school supply lists, requisition forms and reports of books loaned to models schools.

Dates: 1893 - 1922