Occupations Gallery

Cylinder printing press, 1800s

Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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William Caxton, the first English printer

William Caxton examining his first proof sheet in Westminster Abbey, England, 1475.
Printed reproduction of a color lithograph illustration

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Iron industry workers manufacturing steel in England, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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