Here are a few references to Ramage or related topics around the
Web. Please report dead links as I'm just restarting this site and haven't yet had time to verify everything:
- First off, a Yahoo search under "Arts: Humanities: History
of Book and Printing" pulls up
quite a lot of good material, including museums and other organizations
interested in book history.
- The
Bibliographical Society of America has numerous resources and
information on all sorts of bibliographical topics.
- The Online
Letterpress Museum has pictures of numerous presses, including
the Columbian, but not the Ramage. They've linked this page to
their system.
- Elizabeth
Harris has an essay here called "Printing Presses in the Graphic
Collection, National Museum of American History." You need Adobe
Acrobat Reader to access
it, but you can download that for free via a link on the page itself.
It takes a while, though, so you may want to write the Graphic Arts O
at the National Museum of American History for a free copy instead.
address there is: Graphic Arts Office; NMAH 5703; Smithsonian
Institute; Washington, DC 20560.
- Tom BannisterHere's a short bio on Stephen O. Saxe
author of the very useful American Iron Hand Presses.
- For some information on the history of Pennsylvania, this page
run by
Sylvester Stevens and Donald Kent is a good place to start.
- The Independence Hall Association has a whole tour of Historic
Philadelphia online. Here's a link to its page on the Fireman's Hall
Museum. There's a note here that "By 1803, water from the Schuylkill
River (on the west side of Philadelphia)
was stored in wooden trunks to be used in case of fire," which is referred
to in one of the Clippings
elsewhere in this system.
- They also have a link to a Historic Map of
Philadelphia.
- Oak Knoll
Press, which publishes the Saxe book as well as numerous other useful
books on the history of the book, has a page from which you can order
books, as well as peruse short descriptions of their various titles.
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