DES MOINES
Illustrated Souvenir Album (1895)
THE IOWA PRINTING COMPANY.
The typography, presswork and binding of the Illustrated Souvenir is ample evidence that Des Moines has a publishing house in the Iowa Printing Company that is thoroughly equipped for first-class work. This well known house is now recognized as one of the leading lithographing establishments in the west in commercial and bank work. They make a specialty of college and school diplomas, receiving orders from every state in the Union. Their various departments include printing, binding, lithographing, copper plate engraving and steel die embossing. They employ an average of seventy-five persons--occupying the first, second and part of the third floors of their building, each being 45x132 feet, 120 and 122 Fourth street.
THE STAR ENGRAVING COMPANY.
The Star Engraving Company have been engaged in business seven years and are by far the largest company of the kind west of Chicago. They furnish all kinds of engravings and illustrations for the press. They have a large establishment thoroughly equipped with the best improvements in machinery and apparatus required for making all kinds of engravings, viz: Zinc Etchings, Wood Cuts, both plain and in colors, Half Tones, Electrotypes and Stereotypes, etc. Their half tone engravings are equal if not superior to any made, as may be seen by examining the contents of this work and comparing it with other works of similar character, all of the engravings having been made by them. On the opposite page is given a view of the interior of the foundry.
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