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Images and information wanted for the website


Press model images:

18

25

26

26A

31

222

223 Hand

232 Hand

Universal III Hand

SP25 Hand

SP33 Hand



Catalog or specs on WWII-era presses:

055

212

515



Images and specs on these other brands of proof presses:

Canuck (Italy)

Farley (UK)

Rouse (US)

Soldan (UK)

See Other Brands page.



Personal names 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

1716-1722 W. Austin Avenue—Main plant before 1928

900 N. Kilpatrick Avenue—Main plant 1928-1954

630 Dearborn Street [Transportation Bldg.]—Showroom c.1945

3601 W. Touhy Avenue (Lincolnwood)—Main plant 1954-1972

4701 W. Iowa Street—Vandercook Research, Inc. (across from main plant) 1954-1968


320 S. Honore Street—Hacker Manufacturing, 1923-1937



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