<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-grid-container" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px 0.9375rem;max-width:75rem;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Fira Sans Regular","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-grid-x gmail-grid-padding-x gmail-grid-padding-y gmail-primary-content-header" style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;display:flex"><div id="gmail-block-ucr-default-page-title" class="gmail-cell" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.9375rem 0.9375rem;min-height:0px;min-width:0px;width:1048px"><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--title" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;color:rgb(254,254,254)"><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--title--background" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--title--image" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><img src="https://library.ucr.edu/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_l/public/2024-12/smith-acorn-press-min.png?h=35d27844&itok=uUT0zVi0" width="1170" height="450" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></span></div></div><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--title--overlay" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:24px 24px 18px;width:1018px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.65)"><h1 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:40px;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;padding:0px;font-family:Roboto,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:48px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Smith Acorn Press Finds a New Home</span></h1><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--title--author-info" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.825rem;font-style:italic"><span class="gmail-author-date" style="box-sizing:inherit">December 18, 2024</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-grid-x gmail-grid-padding-x gmail-system-admin-controls" style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;display:flex"></div></div><div id="gmail-main-content" class="gmail-grid-container gmail-full gmail-primary-content-area" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Fira Sans Regular","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-grid-x" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-cell gmail-large-auto gmail-small-order-3 gmail-medium-order-3 gmail-large-order-2 gmail-pca-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:0px;min-width:0px;width:auto"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-block-ucr-default-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-grid-container" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px 0.9375rem;max-width:75rem"><div class="gmail-grid-x gmail-grid-padding-x gmail-grid-padding-y" style="box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-cell gmail-padding-top-0" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0.9375rem;min-height:0px;min-width:0px;width:1048px"><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--full" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-ucr-articles--page--full--body" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;padding:0px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,61,165);font-size:1.625rem;line-height:1.10526;font-family:"Fira Sans Regular",sans-serif">A Smith Acorn Press, a historic toggle-style printing press made in 1828, is now on display on the first floor of the Tomás Rivera Library </h4><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6">Patented by Peter Smith in 1821, the Acorn Press is known for its acorn-shaped frame and precise printing capabilities. </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6">The press on display was discovered in Philadelphia in the 1930s by Jackson Burke, who used it in San Francisco to produce “Pocket Press” editions. In the 1950s, Burke gifted the press to Lewis and Dorothy Allen of the Allen Press, where it was used to create 12 titles, including<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Dialogues of Creatures Moralised</em>.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.6">In 1967, the press moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. There, poet and printer William Everson used it at the Lime Kiln Press from 1968 to 1981, producing works like<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">West to the Water</em><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:in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