{"id":5652,"date":"2021-09-06T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2021-09-06T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:47:31","slug":"whats-the-story-with-the-giant-printing-press-in-the-foyer-outside-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2021\/09\/06\/whats-the-story-with-the-giant-printing-press-in-the-foyer-outside-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the story with the giant printing press in the foyer outside the library&#8230;.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/04\/printingpress-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5876\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/04\/printingpress-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/04\/printingpress-rotated.jpg 480w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/04\/printingpress-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/04\/printingpress-332x443.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>Have you ever walked by the giant iron printing press outside the Library and Airport Lounge and wondered exactly what it is and how it got there?!\u00a0 \u00a0 It is indeed a printing press, if that was your guess!\u00a0 \u00a0It was <a href=\"http:\/\/howardironworks.org\/hiwrestorationpg-adams-acorn.html\">made in Boston in the 1830s<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 Hampshire College President Greg Prince was here at the time we got the press, and the College was trying to develop a book studies program as well as planning a massive library renovation (which sadly never happened, although we were able to make some renovations to the Library recently as part of our Mellon grant to fund a Commons).<\/p>\n<p>This press was at the UMass Renaissance Center, and they generously gifted it to Hampshire College.\u00a0 According to Hampshire Associate Professor of History, James Wald, the intention was to<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> connect Hampshire College&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">constant quest for innovation and experimentation with the developments of the past, to show it was part of a spectrum, so they thought the forward-looking library the ideal place to place a historic hand press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad it&#8217;s here!\u00a0 If you are interested in the book arts or the history of printing, come talk to us in the library, and we can direct you to courses and faculty in the Five Colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever walked by the giant iron printing press outside the Library and Airport Lounge and wondered exactly what it is and how it got there?!\u00a0 \u00a0 It is indeed a printing press, if that was your guess!\u00a0 \u00a0It was made in Boston in the 1830s.\u00a0 \u00a0 Hampshire College &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37110,21726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hfj-library","category-spotlight","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}