Museum Artifact: Addressograph Print Ribbon Tins, 1920s
Made by: The Addressograph Company, 915 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, IL
While the terrific 1920s ornamentation suggests something rare and precious, these small ribbon tins were more like the printer ink cartridges of their day; stacked in office storage rooms to keep a business’s addressograph machine up and running. What’s an addressograph, you ask? Why,