New Orleans Printers, Weed & Kelly, Feature "Steam Printing"

By the 1840s or 1850s, with the wider availability of small steam engines, especially in the United States "steam printing" became a selling point for printers. The Weed & Kelly calendar for 1871 characterizing Weed & Kelly as "The Inimitable Steam Printers," is one of the most attactive of the large color advertising broadsides that I have found that strongly emphasizes "Steam."