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A: Metz, Grand Est, France

The Highly Descriptive Billhead of the Béha Printing Plant in Metz

3/18/1894
enlargement to show detail in billhead
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On March 18, 1894 the Béha printing and book production facility sent an invoice to the Charité Maternelle for printing done over the prior year beginning in April 5, 1893. The billhead is the most descriptive of a complex facility that I have seen. On the left we see the typesetting and bookbinding room. In the press room on the right the printing machines driven by a steam engine are on the left and the lithographic presses are on the right. The steam engine, connected to the printing machine by belts is visible at the very back of the press room. In between those rooms we see the front entrance of the building where deliveries and shipping occurs. On the the columns the company lists the wide variety of printing that they do.

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