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100 GPO years, 1861-1961 : a history of United States public printing
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100 GPO years takes a chronological approach to GPO history, beginning with a history of public printing in America prior to 1860 and describing events year by year from 1861 to 1961. A section of ...
100 GPO years takes a chronological approach to GPO history, beginning with a history of public printing in America prior to 1860 and describing events year by year from 1861 to 1961. A section of rare photographs illustrates the progress of "the big shop" from handset type to computer typesetting.
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- Washington, D.C. : United States of America Government Printing Office, 1961
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- xi, 164 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- ocn574311420, ocm01442335
- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prolog -- Chapter 1: Colonial Publick Printing: 1639-1789 -- Chapter 2: Free Enterprise Public Printing: 1789-1861 -- Government printing needs -- Congressional proceedings -- Public printing in new capital -- Government printers -- Congressional investigations-1828 and 1840 -- 1842 printing study -- Contract system restored in 1846 -- Events leading to establishment of GPO-1852-1860 -- 1858 investigation -- 1860 investigation -- Chapter 3: 100 GPO Years: 1861-1961 -- GPO in swampoodle -- Proceedings and debates of Congress -- New printing act -- GPO in peace and war -- Postwar operations -- Chapter 4: This Is The GPO -- Heads of public printing: 1852-1961 -- 100 years of growth of government and GPO -- Organizational structure -- Administration and planning-production -- History of building expansion -- Role in government