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(PRINTING PRESSES--NEWSPAPERS) A company album with compelling 33 views of the Goss Printing Press Co., Chicago, Illinois. The album offers a testimony of metal working prowess through a minutious depiction of both the company's workforce and machinery. It portrays scenes of the working processes, and close-ups of printing presses, all in detailed, crisply defined imagery. Aristotype prints, the images each measuring approximately 9 7/8x12 1/2 inches (25x31.8 cm.), flush mounted to linen. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered cloth; backstrip perished, covers detached. 1897
Founded in 1885 to manufacture printing presses, Goss found a need for a large quantity of spur, worm, and spiral gears. They went on to manufacture an Automatic Gear Hobbing machine of their own design. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Rockwell International Corp. printing press division and was subsequently sold in 1996 to a new company named Goss Graphic Systems Inc.
