Inventor Name
Hoe, Richard M.
Repository
Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027
212-854-5153
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/
Physical Description
ca. 10,500 items
Summary
Collection consists of the firm’s letterpress books, containing letters, accounts, and estimates for printing offices, newpaper offices, job presses, binderies, types of foundries, saw mills, lithography shops, and stereotype foundries in all parts of the United States. Also, there are miscellaneous patents, 1949-1953, and miscellaneous manuscript patent files for printing presses with diagrams and blueprints as follows: American Patents, 1850-1900 French Patents, 1824-1900 German Patents, 1893-1908