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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453488403321

Titolo

100 GPO years, 1861-1961 : a history of United States public printing / / [prepared] under the direction of James L. Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, , 2010

ISBN

0-16-092042-6

0-16-086733-9

Edizione

[Sesquicentennial edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Disciplina

070.5

Soggetti

Printing, Public - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page viii) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Title""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Prolog""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter I. Colonial Publick Printing: 1639-1789 ""; ""Chapter II. 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 III. 100 GPO Years: 1861-1961""

""GPO in Swampoodle""""Proceedings and Debates of Congress""; ""New Printing Act""; ""GPO in Peace and War""; ""Postwar Operations""; ""Chapter IV. 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""; ""Index""