Sujet

Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Légende

Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing adopted state-of-the-art printing technologies that transformed stamp production. The new Giori (1956) and Huck 9-Color (1966) presses printed eye-catching, multi-color stamps that celebrated diversity, popular culture, the arts, and the space program.;Testing the Huck-Cottrell press, Bureau employees produced experimental printing plates from master dies dating back to the 1930s. They printed this proof from one of the plates.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A89_150

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

12,6Mo (1,4Mo) / 16,6cm x 19,0cm / 1963 x 2247 (300dpi)

Mots clés

group communication communications education arts country color unique production location century experimental ink sheet variety diversity repetition concept stamp printing printing press printed various fifties 1950s United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution postal service postage stamp approved Educational Institution 20th century postage stamps culture American America USA decade scientific institution purple engraving ink object united states space programme paper Heritage Art National Postal Museum Bureau Plate Proofs authorised plate proof Bureau of Engraving and Printing BEP ink () engraving Huck Press