• Newspaper Display

    Display Board, c. 1900, USA

    Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection

  • Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by Siemens and Halske in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ca.1900

    Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by Siemens and Halske in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ca.1900

    Based on the 1855 patent of David Hughes. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

  • Korean Printing Block, Pages Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight (recto) of the Appendix to the Collected Literary Works of Hunsu Sŏnsaeng, 18th-19th century. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Arthur W. Asbury in honor of James Cuno

    Printing Block: Collected Literary Works of Hunsu Sŏnsaeng, pages 27 and 28

    Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Arthur W. Asbury in honor of James Cuno

  • Dates to Remember - This Month of December. Y.W.C.A., c. 1900, Boston MA

    Dates to Remember - This Month of December. Y.W.C.A., c. 1900, Boston MA

    Photomechanical print (here cropped). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

 

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