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Beck Isle Museum

I recently paid a visit to the Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life, where they have recreated what they thought a small rural printing office would have looked like in the late 19th Century.

I have split the photographs over two pages:
Page One, Page Two.

A Columbian Press

A Columbian Press

A Peerless hand-fed platen press

A Peerless hand-fed platen press

I have split the photographs over two pages:
Page One, Page Two.



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