We will be printing bookmarks on a cast-iron Kelsey Press that is over a hundred years old!  William A. Kelsey (1851-1923) founded his company in 1872, developing a business that directly manufactured, marketed, and sold presses and printing supplies to the amateur printer.  While other press companies catered to the changing business needs of nineteenth-century America, where small shopkeepers and private households demanded small presses for small-run productions, Kelsey fully capitalized on this market and actively worked to cultivate and expand it.  Much like Steve Jobs in the late twentieth century brought the desktop computer into the home of the average American family, Kelsey popularized printing to the masses, eventually bringing the tabletop press into the home of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American family. 

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