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Addressing machine
- Description
- Addressing machine, made of heavy gray-brown metal.
- Manufacturer
- Addressograph-Multigraph Limited
- Other Names
- Addressograph
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMMUNICATION
- Sub-Category
- PRINTING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Place Of Manufacture
- Great Britain: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
- Start Date
- [1930s?]
- End Date
- [1950s?]
- Period or Date Notes
- Date range estimated in artifact assessment report.
- Description
- Addressing machine, made of heavy gray-brown metal.
- Narrative
- Worked together with a graphotype to create a mechanized mass-mailing system. The graphotype embossed metal plates with addresses, which the addressograph then stamped onto envelopes via a heavy-duty ink ribbon.
- History Of Use
- Possible that this was used by postmaster Norm Kilpatrick, but not verified.
- Height
- 27
- Width
- 32
- Length
- 42
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Accession No.
- 2021.18.4
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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