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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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eral Loganstyping and stereotyping business, and studied the glavtino- (ireat Conspiracy, and illustrated works of Dickens,plastic process. After the great fire of 1871, Mr. Ringler Burns, Shakespeare, Moore, Byron, Dantes Inferno,returned to New York, where in 1872 he purchased an Tennyson, Coleridges Ancient Mariner, Sword andinterest in the electrotyping establishment of Hurst & Cimeter, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Pilgrims Pro-Crum. Though a very young man Mr. Ringler mani- gress, The History of Free Masonry, etc. Indeed most offested not only a profound knowledge of the business, the pictures in the illustrated books of a high literary classbut also an inventive talent, which is almost everything in are taken from plates supplied by his establishment, as, fora branch of industry where it is necessary to be all the time instance, Meisterwerke der Deutschen Kunst, Meister-improving to keep abreast of scientific discovery. In werke der Italienischen Kunst, Die Frauen in der Franzo-
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FREDERICK A. RINGLER. 1878 he purchased the interest of Hurst <S: Crum, andhenceforth carried on the largest electrotype establishmentin the United States was that controlled by F. A. RinglerCompany. His phenomenal success must be ascribed to anaggressive policy and bright intelligence. He is the inventorof the galvano-plastic process, which has enabled the work-ingman to decorate his home with pictures, that before Mr.Ringlers time none but the rich, or relatively rich, couldafford. His establishment is the only one in this country inwhich copper and steel engravings are reproduced and steel-fared, a process which makes the face of such plates so hardand consistent that 50,000 impressions are taken withouthurting or even wearing the plate in the slightest degree.During the comparatively short time he has been in the busi-ness he has succeeded in carrying off eight medals as firstclass prizes for superexcellence in elegance of design andsuperiority in the work he has exhibited at v

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