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Torch Press

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DescriptionEstablished by Luther Brewer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1907, the Torch Press was a publishing and printing house located in a building located on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street in Cedar Rapids. The company dissolved between 1959 and 1963, the building was purchased by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.

Source of descriptionThomas L. Carney and Joyce Crawford, "Torch Press: A Preliminary History," Books at Iowa 21 (November 1974), https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/bai/article/29038/galley/137541/view/.

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