Phoenix: Pioneer Living History Museum

Description:

Location: The press is shown at different events. For example: Pioneer Living History Museum: (3901 W Pioneer Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85086) and the Northwest Colonial Festival (939 Finn Hall Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362).
Year: [Reconstruction, based on Franklin Press]
Catalogue number: -
Builder: -
Press dimensions: -
Platen dimensions: -
Platen material: Wood
Spindle material: Metal
Hose type: Box hose
One pull/two pull: Two

Notes:

Facebook (March 21, 2015): Isaiah Thomas Print Shop, Rebels and Redcoats V, Mr. Gove Allen and family working to insure freedom of the press.

YouTube (June 24, 2020) shows the press at the Colonial Heritage Virtual Festival.

Literature:

Harris, Elizabeth & Sisson, Clinton (1987) The common press: Being a record, description & delineation of the early eighteenth-century handpress in the Smithsonian Institution, with a history & documentation of the press. D. R. Godine.

Photographs: medium size. Clicking enlarges in new window.

Photo: probably ChapterNext Photography.

Photo: probably ChapterNext Photography.

Photo: Unknown source.

Photo: Unknown source.

Photo: Ron Stecker (August 13, 2018).

Photo: NW Colonial Festival(August 9, 2018).