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Title:
100 GPO Years 1861-1961: A History of United States Public Printing (ePub eBook)
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999-000-44441-2 ISBN
9780160867330
Description
President Buchanan signed the GPO act on June 23, 1860. In 1861 after the purchase of printing equipment and construction of the original Government Printing Office building, GPO began its printing career. The shift of focus from a freewheeling regime to one of correct operation as a Government enterprise required some adjustments. There would be no change in the method of producing Government printing, but the accent would be placed on control, an element lacking in the former public printing system. Its birth took place in the aftermath of congressional investigations; it came of age in the war which began 5 weeks later, and the 1861 GPO thus became the genesis of the present-day GPO. The following chapters discuss the period from the beginning of American printing in New England in 1639 to the formation of the Union in 1789; from the manner of supplying the printing needs of the small Nation to the rapidly growing country of 1861; and then to the 100 years of the Government Printing Office from 1861 to 1961.
Table of Contents
Foreword v
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction ix
Prolog xi
Chapter I. Colonial Publick Printing: 1639-1789 1
II. Free Enterprise Public Printing: 1789-1861 7
Government Printing Need 9
Congressional Proceedings 10
Public Printing in New Capital 13
Government Printers 16
Congressional Investigations—1818 and 1840 17
1841 Printing Study 10
Contract System Restored in 1846 11
Events Leadingto Establishment of GPO—1851-60 11
1858 Investigation 14
1860 Investigation 16
III. 100 GPO Years: 1861-1961 35
GPO in Swampoodle 36
Proceedings and Debates of Congress 48
New Printing Act 74
GPO in Peace and War 131
Postwar Operations 144
IV. This Is the GPO 155
Heads of Public Printing: 1851-1961 155
100 Years of Growth of Government and GPO 156
Organizational Structure 157
History of Building Expansion 161
Role in Government 163
Audience
Anyone interested in the history of printing, the growth of the Federal Government or the Government Publishing Office would enjoy this historical perspective oriented publication.
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$7.99
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U.S. Government Printing Office/GPO
