Stereograph

Description

A pair of stereographic photographs mounted on a yellow card depicting the Printing Office at the Church Family of the Canterbury Shakers. In the photographs are type cabinets, type cases, and composing racks. In the foreground is standing type, set and ready for printing or for distribution back into cases, On the right side of the image is a type specimen book from the Boston Type Foundry. it is leaning on a book press that appears to be one now in the Shaker Museum collection -- see 1950.4175.1. On the far left is an unidentified printing press -- possibly the Young American the Canterbury Shakers purchased -- and to its right on a table a slug cutter for cutting line spacing material to length, and beyond that, a covered inking stone with its brayer. All of these items are commonly found in a printing office. The stereograph was produced by W. G. C. Kimball, photographer, Concord, NH, and is part of a 56-view series titled, "Photographic Views. Shaker Village, Canterbury, N. H. The Printing Office is number 7 in this series. The list of views is on the back of the stereograph card, printed on a separate piece of paper pasted to the card.