DC. 1918 International Steel & Copper Plate Printers Union 26th Annual

Washington, D.C....., July 15th–20th, 1918. This impressive oblong, ribbon-tied souvenir album has 32 pages. It was produced for the union whose members printed the nation's currency, bonds and stamps at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The cover bears a finely engraved intaglio portrait of George Washington, and the script-engraved title page features a vignette of the U.S. Capitol. Highlights include a superb intaglio portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, signed in the plate by G.F.C. Smillie, the Bureau's master portrait engraver, and a flying American Eagle vignette with "E Pluribus Unum." John Peterson & Son photogravures depict the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the battleship U.S.S. North Dakota (photo by N.L. Stebbins). A.W. Elson & Co., Boston, fine art photogravures reproduce paintings by Rosa Bonheur ("Deer in the Forest–Twilight," from the Metropolitan Museum), Émile Renouf ("The Helping Hand"), Charles Burton Barber ("Wake Up!") and George de Forest

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