Draft:American Lithographic Co.

For the unrelated American Lithographic Stone Company, see Lithographic limestone.

The American Lithographic Company was a large lithographic printing firm founded by Palmer Knapp and based in New York City from 1892 to 1929. The company was formed by consolidating several smaller printing presses, including "George S. Harris and Sons, Heppenheimer's and Sons, the Donaldson Brothers Company, the Giles Company, Eddy and Calaus, Witsch and Schmitt, and Shumacher and Ettinger, into the first American printing conglomerate."

Locations of the firm

Based in New York City, The American Lithographic Co. building was built on 19th street in 1895, and occupied until 1929 or 1936. In 1919, the American Lithographic Co. expanded into a 10 story fire proof loft on 18th street. "In 1937 American Lithographic relocated to the Mills Building at 85 North 3rd St., Williamsburgh, Brooklyn."

Examples of the American Lithographic Co.'s work

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  Examples of WWI Propaganda
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U.S. Supreme Court case

The company was the petitioner in a case that reached the Supreme Court of the United States, American Lithographic Co. v. Werkmeister, in which the court held that a corporation defendant in a suit to enforce copyright infringement penalties is not entitled to a Fourth or Fifth Amendment objection to the admission of its bookkeeping entries into evidence when they are produced under a subpoena duces tecum.