Images and information wanted for the website
Press model images:
18, 25, 26, 26A, 31, 119, 222, 223 Hand, 232 Hand
Universal III Hand, SP25 Hand, SP33 Hand
Catalog image or specs on WWII-era presses:
055, 212, 515
Images and specs on these other brands of proof presses:
Asbern (West Germany), Brower (US), Canuck (Italy), Farley (UK), Rouse (US), Soldan (UK)
See Other Brands
Personal names found on Vandercook documents and catalogs
See Vandercook Employee Roster
Photos of what is now located in Chicago at these former Vandercook & Sons, Inc. sites:
559-563 W. Lake Street — Vandercook Press c.1905-09
120-130 Sherman Street — Vandercook Press c.1909-1923
1716-1722 W. Austin Avenue — Main plant before 1923-1928
900 N. Kilpatrick Avenue — Main plant 1928-1954
630 Dearborn Street [Transportation Bldg.] — Showroom c.1945
3601 W. Touhy Avenue — Main plant 1954-1972 Building demolished; now a Lowes with same street number.
4701 W. Iowa Street — Vandercook Research, Inc. (across from main plant) 1954-1968
312 N. May Street — Hacker Manufacturing, circa 1917-21
320 S. Honore Street — Hacker Manufacturing, circa 1916? or after 1921?
Biographic information on other manufacturers:
William G. Potter (Potter, Poco)
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