In the Press Room we see women in hoop skirts working along side men. Whether women did more than feed paper into the Adams presses is unclear. Rand & Avery operated "twenty-one Adams Power Presses, three sizes of Ruggles Presses, and one Hoe Cylinder Press, besides Hand Presses, giving employment to some one hundred operatives, of both sexes, and "throwing off" annually over eight hundred million royal octavo pages." (These details are quoted from the "Drying Room" page in the Specimens volume.)