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Guide to the Harris AutomaticPress Company Records

NMAH.AC.0928Alison Oswald

2017

http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives

Table of Contents

Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 2Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4

Series 1: Background Materials, 1889 - 1995.......................................................... 4Series 2: Drawings, 1896 - 1929............................................................................. 7Series 3: Photographs, 1921 - 1968........................................................................ 8

Harris Automatic Press Company RecordsNMAH.AC.0928

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Collection Overview

Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Title: Harris Automatic Press Company Records

Identifier: NMAH.AC.0928

Date: 2003 - 20031889 - 1995

Extent: 6.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes and 5 oversize folders)

Creator: GSS Printing Equipment Company.Graphic Arts Collection (NMAH, SI)Information Technology and Communications, Div. of (NMAH, SI).Harris Automatic Press Company, Dayton, Ohio

Language: English

Summary: Collection documents the Harris Automatic Press Company,manufacturers of a printing press with an automatic feed primarilythrough drawings and photographs.

Administrative Information

Acquisition InformationCollection donated by GSS Printing Equipment.

ProvenanceTransferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Information, Technology andCommunications, Graphic Arts Collection.

Processing InformationCollection is processed by Alison Oswald. Historical background documentation provided byRichard Foley, 2001-2003.

Preferred CitationHarris Automatic Press Company Records, 1889-1995; 2003 Archives Center, NationalMuseum of American History.

RestrictionsCollection is open for research.


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Conditions Governing UseCollection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guaranteesconcerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Centercost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Biographical / Historical

In 1890 jewelers and tinkerers Alfred and Charles G. Harris developed a new printing press withan automatic feeder. Their first press was a revolutionary breakthrough, delivering ten times what apressman could feed by hand. The Harris Automatic Press Company was responsible for many printinginnovations during the early 1900s including the first commercially successful offset lithographic pressand the first two-color offset press. The company became one of the world's largest and most successfulmanufacturers of printing equipment.

Harris-Seybold Company (later Harris Intertype) of Cleveland, Ohio manufactured high-quality sheetfedoffset lithographic printing presses. The Harris Automatic Press Co. of Niles, Ohio (the original companyname) designed and built the first commercially successful sheetfed offset lithographic printing press in1906. It was sold to the Republic Banknote Company (later became part of U.S. Banknote Corporation)in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shipped on July 26, 1906. This printing press was retired in August 1940,rebuilt by Harris and donated to the Smithsonian Institution. From 1906 to 1976, Harris manufacturedthousands of lithographic printing presses in various models and sizes along with various designs ofbindery equipment. They were leaders in offset lithography technology. Many of the sheetfed offsetlithographic presses presently being manufactured use some form of the early Harris innovations. In 1957,the company name was changed to Harris Intertype Corporation and in 1974 the name was changed toHarris Corporation. At this time the company was comprised of several electronic divisions in additionto the printing equipment divisions. The company stopped production of sheetfed lithographic printingpresses in 1976. The corporate offices moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Melbourne, Florida in 1978 whereHarris Corporation is still located. Harris Corporation disposed of its printing equipment plants in 1984 ina leverage buyout. Heidelberg (Germany) purchased some of the printing manufacturing plants in the late1990s.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs of the presses, factory and employees; a scrapbook of presses,1915; drawings; trade literature and catalogs; the Harris Impressions newsletter; blueprints of the presses;and histories of the company.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1: Background Materials, 1889-1995

Series 2: Drawings, 1896-1929

Series 3: Photographs, 1921-1968; 2003


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Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects:

InventorsOffset printingPrintingPrinting -- HistoryPrinting -- InstrumentsPrinting industryPrinting machinery and suppliesPrinting presses

Types of Materials:

BlueprintsCatalogsNewsletters -- 1900-1950Photograph albums -- 20th centuryPhotographs -- 1900-1950Scrapbooks -- 20th century

Series 1: Background Materials Harris Automatic Press Company RecordsNMAH.AC.0928

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Container Listing

Series 1: Background Materials, 1889 - 1995

Box 1, Folder 1-3 Company history

Box 1, Folder 4 The Harris Story, 1972

Box 1, Folder 5 History of Harris-Seybold, undated

Box 1, Folder 6 Biographical (A.F. Harris and Harry A. Porter), undated

Box 1, Folder 7A Biographical (Alfred S. Harris)

Box 13, Folder 3 Alfred F. Harris scrapbook, 1943 - 19431 Scrapbook

Box 1, Folder 7 Articles of Incorporation, 1895

Box 1, Folder 8 Union dues cards and Falcon Iron & Nail Company account, 1891 - 1892

Box 1, Folder 9 List of patents for printing presses, 1900 - 1906

Box 1, Folder 10 Product literature and price lists, 1975 - 1976, 1959 - 1959

Box 1, Folder 11 Sales Indoctrination and Training School, 1954 - 1956

Box 1, Folder 12 Letterhead typeface samples

Box 2, Folder 1 Harris Impressions, 1942 - 1944






Box 2, Folder 7 Harris Magazine of Technology of Work , 1995


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Box 2, Folder 8 Graphically Speaking, 1983

Box 2, Folder 9 A Short Story of the Printing Press, 1902

Box 2, Folder 10 The Story of Lithography, 1940

Box 2, Folder 11 The Offset Process, Harris LSB and LSN, the Technical Trade School, 1942

Box 2, Folder 12 A Look at Management and Profits in the Printing Industry , 1963

Box 2, Folder 13 Lithographic Press, Harris LTE Mobile Reproduction Unit, undated

Box 2, Folder 14 75 Years of Lithography, 1957

Box 13, Folder 1 Cartoons of Harris employees, undated

Box 2, Folder 15 Instructions for Operating S5L Press, [1942?]

Box 2, Folder 16 Description of and Instructions for Operating the Harris Numbering Press,undated

Box 2, Folder 17 Feed roll registering mechanism manual , undated

Box 2, Folder 18 Duplex Printing Press Company, 1915

Box 3, Folder 1 Hall Printing Press Company, 1916, 1923 - 1923

Box 3, Folder 2 Potter Printing press Company, 1906 - 1944

Box 3, Folder 3 Ode, randolph T. (Providence Lithograph Company), 1898 - 1898, 1951 - 1954,1889 - 1889

Box 3, Folder 4 Rubel, Nathan W. , 1951 - 1962

Box 3, Folder 5 Inventory notebook (S4L and CL presses), 1913 - 1923

Box 3, Folder 6 Inventory notebook (for S4 press), 1907 - 1932

Box 3, Folder 7 Press run (sample letterhead) on S4L , undated

Box 3, Folder 8 Bill of Material, E1 card feed and feed table, undated


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Box 3, Folder 9 Bill of Material, E1 type box 4, 1919

Box 3, Folder 10 Bill of Material, E1 , undated

Box 3, Folder 11 Bill of Material, E1 main

Box 3, Folder 12 Bill of Material, E1-2, color delivery

Box 4, Folder 1 Bill of Material, E1-2, advanced [del?] table

Box 4, Folder 2 Bill of Material, E1, single color sheet feed assembly

Box 4, Folder 3 Bill of Material, E1, two color sheet feed assembly, undated

Box 4, Folder 4 Bill of Material, E1, card and envelope feed, undated

Box 4, Folder 5 Bill of Material, S4L feeder, 1956

Box 4, Folder 6 Bill of Material, S4L list, undated

Box 4, Folder 7 Bill of Material, S4L main, undatefd

Box 4, Folder 8 Bill of Material, S4/S4L pile feeder, 1956

Box 4, Folder 9 Bill of Material, S4L friction feed, undated

Box 4, Folder 10 Bill of Material, S4L main, 1956

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Series 2: Drawings Harris Automatic Press Company RecordsNMAH.AC.0928

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Series 2: Drawings, 1896 - 1929

Box 5, Folder 1A Model E1, sheets #27-#781, 1896 - 1898

Box 5, Folder 1B Model E1, sheets #797-#1754, 1902 - 1921

Box 5, Folder 1 Model E1, sheets #1-#1000, 1898 - 1916


Box 5, Folder 2A Model E1, sheets #1288-3223, 1899 - 1901


Box 5, Folder 3A Model E1, sheets #8449-11303, 1906 - 1908



Box 5, Folder 1 Model S4L, sheets #6-#575, 1906 - 1907



Box 5, Folder 4 Model S4L, sheets #4-#10180, 1906



Map-folder 5 More perfect register (diagram and drawing), undatedIncludes documentation for the No. 45 cLT 2 color Harris automatic offset press.

Map-folder 1 Model S4L/3, 1906 - 1917

Map-folder 2 Model S4L, 1905 - 1935

Map-folder 3 Model S4L, 1906 - 1939

Map-folder 4 Model E1, 1898 - 1915


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Series 3: Photographs, 1921 - 1968

Box 8, Folder 11 Indices for photographs , 1952

Box 4, Folder 11 Product history70 Slides

Box 4, Folder 12 Press and factory, #2087 and #3000, undated3 glass negatives

Box 6, Folder 1 Presses and factory, #3003 and #3010, undated2 glass plate negatives

Box 6, Folder 2 Presses and factory, #3011 and #3012, undated2 glass plate negatives

Box 6, Folder 4-5 EG-E1, undated

Box 6, Folder 6 F-T erecting photos, undated

Box 6, Folder 7 HS erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 1 LB erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 2 L-T erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 3 SL5 erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 4-5 S4L/S5L erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 6 S8L erecting photos, undated

Box 8, Folder 7 Miscellaneous printing presses, undated

Map-folder 5;

Box 8, Folder 8

Harris Company Executives, undated

Box 8, Folder 9 Employee conventions and interior plant views, 1927

Box 8, Folder 10 Graphic Arts Expositions, 1921 - 1939

Box 13, Folder 2 Seybold Cutters and trimmers and die presses


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Box 12, Folder 54 Harris-Seybold calendar images for 1940-1945 and company catalog 1902,2003 - 20031 cd-rIn the 1940, the Sales Department at Harris-Seybold Company printed avery high quality calendar on Harris presses that was given to customers andHarris employees. At this time in the industry, this was a new idea. The normalcalendars that companies supplied were not of high quality. Harris hired theservices of a well-known illustrator/artist to create an original piece of artwork. Aprinting company using Harris presses would then duplicate this artwork usingthe sheetfed offset lithographic process. The first calendar was for the year1940-1941 and the last calendar was 1964-1965.

Box 12, Folder 55 Harris Intertype slideshow of 1968, 2003 - 20032 cd-rsAssembled by Rich Foley, the disk contains a slideshow which includes 35mmslides, a ¼" audio tape and a script copy for a slideshow that Harris Companyoriginally created on April 23, 1968. The slideshow presentation summarizes thecompany's equipment and the new electronic designs.

Box 9, Folder 1 # 1, Model N2

Box 9, Folder 2 # 7, Model B1

Box 9, Folder 3 #12, Model A4

Box 9, Folder 4 #21, MS and Charles Harris, bag press

Box 9, Folder 5 #32, Model S1

Box 9, Folder 6 #39, Model E1

Box 9, Folder 7 #88, Model S1H



Box 9, Folder 10 #110, Harris Factory, Nile, Ohio

Box 9, Folder 11 #111, Model S1F

Box 9, Folder 12 #113, Model E1 (original)

Box 9, Folder 13 #115, Model S1 (original)

Box 9, Folder 14 #118, Model S1F (orginal)


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Box 9, Folder 15 #184, Inker, R.H. view

Box 9, Folder 16 #198, Model B1, feeder taking a bag


Box 9, Folder 18 #218, Model B1

Box 9, Folder 19 #226, Cotton cutter

Box 9, Folder 20 #236, "P"

Box 9, Folder 21 #286







Box 9, Folder 28 #348, new style counter Model S1









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Box 9, Folder 35 #391, transfer machine, Model S1L

Box 9, Folder 36 #392, Stone cycle and shaft, Model S1L

Box 9, Folder 37 #393, seed bag feed, Model E1

Box 9, Folder 38 #404, parallel perforator, Model S1

Box 9, Folder 39 #405, Model S4L

Box 9, Folder 40 #414, bag press suction feed, Model W

Box 9, Folder 41 #417, open Model E1



Box 9, Folder 44 #436, Card & Env. Dely. Model E-1

Box 9, Folder 45 #442 Model S4L

Box 9, Folder 46 #445 Model E-1

Box 9, Folder 47 #473 Model S1-C

Box 9, Folder 48 #484 Rear, Model S-10

Box 9, Folder 49 #486, Model S-10

Box 9, Folder 50 #504, Front - Without Change Gear, Model S1


Box 9, Folder 52 #551, Rubber Cyl. with Reel Rod, Model S4L

Box 9, Folder 53 #513, Blamket in Reel Rod, Model S4L

Box 9, Folder 54 #518, 3-Color Open, Model W

Box 9, Folder 55 #528, Sheet Feed - for Gov. P. O., Model E1F

Box 9, Folder 56 #532, Grainer Box with Motor, Model G-G


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Box 9, Folder 57 #539 U.S. Gov. Nat'l. Currency, Model S1

Box 9, Folder 58 #540, U.s. Gov. Nat'l Currency, Model S1

Box 9, Folder 59 #551, Right Perf. on Press, Model S1


Box 9, Folder 61 #556 2-Color Open, Model S1

Box 9, Folder 62 #568, Sucker Feed, Model P2

Box 9, Folder 63 #570, L.H., Model P2

Box 9, Folder 64 #571, R.H., Model P2

Box 9, Folder 65 #572, Rear, Model P2




Box 10, Folder 2 #600, Model E-1

Box 10, Folder 3 #602, Ext. Rotary Dely, Model S4




Box 10, Folder 7 #620, #16 SIO

Box 10, Folder 8 #624, PI-OS-Blanker, #15- 2 col, 14 - 1 col

Box 10, Folder 9 #625, "P"



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Box 10, Folder 11 #630, Bag Feed




Box 10, Folder 15 #644, Model 6E1

Box 10, Folder 16 #646, Model P2



Box 10, Folder 19 #659, Rear, Model S8L


Box 10, Folder 21 #663, Whittlock Flat Bed

Box 10, Folder 22 #668, 2 col.open, Model P2


Box 10, Folder 24 #685, TA Rotary

Box 10, Folder 25 #692, Bag Feed, Model B1



Box 10, Folder 28 #699, 2 col.open, TA Rotary






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Box 10, Folder 39 #763, Model-S1

Box 10, Folder 40 #763, Model- S8L


Box 10, Folder 42 #769, Model- EG

Box 10, Folder 43 #771, Model- E1 & LE


Box 10, Folder 45 #777, Model - S7L

Box 10, Folder 46 #778, Model - TB

Box 10, Folder 47 #800, Model - EG

Box 10, Folder 48 #804, Model- E1

Box 10, Folder 49 #811, Model- E1


Box 10, Folder 51 #817, Model- S1


Box 10, Folder 53 #839, Model - TC, E1, S7L


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Box 10, Folder 57 #865, Model- TC

Box 11, Folder 1 #869, Model- S1

Box 11, Folder 2 #872, Model-E1

Box 11, Folder 3 #892, Model-W

Box 11, Folder 4 #904, Model-TB

Box 11, Folder 5 #919, Direct Prtg. on Aluminum

Box 11, Folder 6 #930, Press #101, Model-LE

Box 11, Folder 6 #930, Press #101, Model-LE

Box 11, Folder 7 #931, 4 Pocket Feeder, Model- EG

Box 11, Folder 8 #941, Model of Perfecting Press Front View

Box 11, Folder 9 #944, Office Bldg. H.A.P. Co. Niles, Ohio


Box 11, Folder 11 #953, Art Delivery, Model- TC

Box 11, Folder 12 #956, Currency Feeder B.E. & P., U.s. Gov.

Box 11, Folder 13 #1018, Model LE



Box 11, Folder 16 #1073, Model LT-101

Box 11, Folder 17 #1086, Model EG


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Box 11, Folder 18 #1088, Model LT

Box 11, Folder 19 #1112, Model G.P.

Box 11, Folder 20 #1126, Model LF

Box 11, Folder 21 #1136, Cleve. Factory, S7L Presses

Box 11, Folder 22 #1143, Model LF

Box 11, Folder 23 ##1147, Pos. Delivery, 12-9-22, S7L


Box 11, Folder 25 #1159, 12-9-22, S7L


Box 11, Folder 27 #1169, Pile Delivery, 2-10-23, S7L

Box 11, Folder 28 #1173, Front, Model P2

Box 11, Folder 29 #1178

Box 11, Folder 30 #1180, R.H. Front Friction Feed, Model #30, S4L

Box 11, Folder 31 #907, Niles Plant

Box 11, Folder 32 #1181, Harris Offset Litho. Press-with POs. Dely., #33 S8L, 28"x42"


Box 11, Folder 34 #1189, E1

Box 11, Folder 35 #1193, Method for Grinding 42" Cyl. 6-10-23, Model PC

Box 11, Folder 36 #1195, Model LT

Box 11, Folder 37 #1205, Annual Lithog. Assn. Convention Harris Factory Visitation Luncheon Intent-south of bldg.



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Box 11, Folder 39 #1224, Playing Card Press, Model PC

Box 11, Folder 40 #1275

Box 11, Folder 41 #1276

Box 11, Folder 42 #1279, L.H.Side, Model LT

Box 11, Folder 43 #1280

Box 11, Folder 44 #1281

Box 11, Folder 45 #1317, Model LB

Box 11, Folder 46 #1319, Drafting Room - Engineering Dept.

Box 11, Folder 47 #1320, First Harris E-1, Card and envelope press

Box 11, Folder 48 #1322


Box 11, Folder 50 #1366 Model L.B.


Box 11, Folder 52 #1375

Box 11, Folder 53 #1378


Box 11, Folder 55 #1381, Model EG

Box 11, Folder 56 #1390, Model H.S.

Box 11, Folder 57 #1397

Box 11, Folder 58 #1412, Harris-Claybourn Rotary, Inker in Position, Model HS 2 Color

Box 11, Folder 59 #1428, Swing Feed mechanism, Model LF


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Box 11, Folder 60 #1435

Box 11, Folder 61 #1441, Model CL

Box 11, Folder 62 #1485, Model #25 CL

Box 11, Folder 63 #1488, Model HC

Box 11, Folder 64 #1502, Model HK

Box 11, Folder 65 #1511

Box 11, Folder 66 #1533, First FT demonstration, #1533

Box 11, Folder 67 #1536

Box 11, Folder 68 #1582, Model TFC

Box 11, Folder 69 #1597

Box 11, Folder 70 #1600

Box 11, Folder 71 #1608, Model LB

Box 11, Folder 72 #1619 Model JT

Box 11, Folder 73 #1625, Old Style Base Model LSB, 17x22

Box 11, Folder 74 #1641 A

Box 11, Folder 75 #1671, Model LSC

Box 11, Folder 76 #1724, High Inker, Model LSG

Box 11, Folder 77 #1752

Box 11, Folder 78 #1755, Model LSF

Box 11, Folder 79 #1756, No. 3 Gravure with serrated cut news folder and double magazine folder,W-1

Box 11, Folder 80 #1758, W-2


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Box 12, Folder 1 #1759, No. 3 gravure with serrated cut news folder and double magazine folder,W-3



Box 12, Folder 4 #1836, Harris Lithographic Model EL Press, 22 x 34 single color


Box 12, Folder 6 #1843, Adolph Greenstein


Box 12, Folder 8 #1847, Model LSD


Box 12, Folder 10 #1851, Used for LSB illustration, Model LSN

Box 12, Folder 11 #1853, 1859, 1856, Model LSK

Box 12, Folder 12 #1867, 1869, Traung varnish, Model KMB machine

Box 12, Folder 13 #1871, 1872, 1873, Model LSJ

Box 12, Folder 14 #1884

Box 12, Folder 15 #1886, Imp Cyl., Models E1 and LSH

Box 12, Folder 16 #1887, 1888, Harris 22 x 28, Model LSN, single color offset press

Box 12, Folder 17 #1900

Box 12, Folder 18 #1910, Model LSK

Box 12, Folder 19 #1922

Box 12, Folder 20 #1925, Model TFC, 20 x 26, two color

Box 12, Folder 21 #1928, Cleveland Ad Art


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Box 12, Folder 22 #1942, LSM

Box 12, Folder 23 #1942, Model LSQ

Box 12, Folder 24 #1972, Model LSH

Box 12, Folder 25 #1978, Feed side delivery end, Model LSH

Box 12, Folder 26 #1981, 19982, Models LAD and LAE

Box 12, Folder 27 #1983, Traung tip press, Models LAE and LAD

Box 12, Folder 28 #1984, Model LSR

Box 12, Folder 29 #1987, Model LST

Box 12, Folder 30 #1991, Model LASB processes

Box 12, Folder 31 #1993, Cleveland Plant

Box 12, Folder 32 #2006, Interior of office, Atlanta


Box 12, Folder 34 #2022, Model LSH

Box 12, Folder 35 #2025, The first Potter offset press deigned and built in 1906

Box 12, Folder 36 #2029, First harris offset press, Model S4L

Box 12, Folder 37 #2049

Box 12, Folder 38 #2050

Box 12, Folder 39 #2051, Model LSK

Box 12, Folder 40 #2054

Box 12, Folder 41 #2057, Gene Kment, Harris Chemical Laboratory

Box 12, Folder 42 #2061, Four color gravure press

Box 12, Folder 43 #2075


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Box 12, Folder 44 #2077, Model LSJ

Box 12, Folder 45 #3002

Box 12, Folder 46 #3006, 3010, LTE photos

Box 12, Folder 47 Miscellaneous photo

Box 12, Folder 48 #1728, LSB negative at Caxtom Company

Box 12, Folder 49 #1691-1702, negatives at Cleveland Ad Art

Box 12, Folder 50 S5L photos

Box 12, Folder 51 S3 photos

Box 12, Folder 52 S6L photos

Box 12, Folder 53 TFC Press


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