A collection of user’s manuals for a variety of offset presses, cutters, trimmers, and other pieces of book production machinery.

Originally separate companies, Intertype Corporation and Harris-Seybold merged in 1957 to become the Harris-Intertype Corporation. Collectively they produced a variety of presses, paper cutters, and typecasting machines, and slowly merged into IT and defense contract work.

1 record storage box: 2 LF

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the ABM Librarian, American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, California 94103. Consent is given on behalf of the American Bookbinders Museum as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.                       Preferred Citation: [Folder name], Harris Intertype Manuals. American Bookbinders Museum Library and Archives.

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