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Rand McNally Press, c.1946

 

 

 

Rand McNally Press, c.1946

Locking up the press, c. 1946. Rand McNally & Co.'s book manufacturing division used sheet-fed presses built by the Miehle Printing Press Company, a Chicago firm, for the production of atlases and textbooks. Here the stereotype plates for a book are locked into the press.