Historic New England

Important message for you! American Type Founders Company, Boston, Mass., 1925

The pamphlet contains an address delivered on January 20, 1925 to the executives of the Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham, Massachusetts. The title of the address is "A practical discourse on the Kelly Press," by Frank B. Stiles, Superintendent of the Stetson Press, Boston, Massachusetts....

Date: 1925

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265831

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.012

Trade card for Arthur Vogel, The Printshop, type and engraved printing, 234 South Main Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1920

The card has a calendar for 1920 and a list of Manchester fire alarm boxes on the card verso.

Date: 1920

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265832

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.013

Engravers bold for high-grade society and commercial printing, American Type Founders Company, Boston, Mass., undated

The item has examples of different typefaces to enhance and maximize printing efficiencies.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265833

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.014

Journeyman mechanic's and day-laborer's account book, Thomas O. Walker, 59 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., 1842

The inside of the front cover has a label with the text "J. Backup, dealer in school books, stationery, 92 Washington Street, Roxbury." The name "Andrew Jackson" is handwritten inside the front cover. The back cover has an advertisement for Walker's business.

Date: 1842

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265834

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.015

Trade card for Cuthbertson & Black, printers, 1 Minshull Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, undated

The business does commercial printing, fine catalog printing, book printing and modern and old style art printing. The business was established in 1874.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265909

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.016

Decoration, The Berkeley Press, printing & typographic service for advertisers, 530 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass., undated

The brochure contains borders and decorative jim jams for advertisers to consider for their printing orders.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265911

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.017

Trade card for The Heliotype Printing Co., lithographers, artistic printing, 211 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card verso text reads "Illustrations for town histories, genealogies, college class books, town reports etc." The business was established in 1872.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265912

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.018

Trade card for Ira H. Joy, Good Printing, 150-152 Exchange Street, Bangor, Maine, undated

The business is located in The Bangor Daily News Building across the street from the Penobscot Exchange Hotel.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265913

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.019

Forbes Lithograph-Manufacturing Co., Franklin and Devonshire Streets, Boston, Mass., undated

The businesses in the building in this image are Bradstreet's National Revere Bank and E. Allen & Company.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265914

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.020

Cover for Rand, Avery & Co., printers, 117 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The front cover of a catalog for the Rand, Avery Company has classical illustrations. The verso has a Greek urn with the figure of Poseidon and four horses.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265915

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.021

Cover for Rand, Avery & Co., printers, 117 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The back cover of a catalog for the Rand, Avery Company has classical illustrations with the text "Printers." The verso has a Greek urn with the figure of Poseidon and four horses.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265916

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.022

Sample page for Trophies sonnets by José-María de Heredia, Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1900

The item was printed on English hand-made paper at the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts for Small, Maynard & Company of Boston. Frank Sewall translated the text from the French. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed the ornamental borders and intials.

Date: 1900

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265920

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.023

Billhead for Chas. J. Batcheller, Dr., plain & ornamental printer, Thayer's Block, Main Street, East Douglas, Mass., dated April 17, 1883

The business premises are shown on the billhead image.

Date: 1883-04-17

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265921

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.024

Billhead for the Forbes Company, Albertype Printers and Photo-Lithographers, 181 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., dated July 31, 1882

Forbes is located on Devonshire Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1882-07-31

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265922

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.025

Handbill for Cha's E. Clement, book and job printer, 4 Fletcher Street, Nashua, New Hampshire, undated

The handbill was done in 21 colors printed on a Gordon Press. The printer solicits business on the item verso. The business has an automatic job press, the only one in Nashua, which can turn out 100,000 pieces of work on a daily basis.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265923

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.026

Trade card for Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., lithographers, Block & Albertype Printers, 21 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, undated

Forbes does commercial work and label work including dry goods tickets, bands and tags. The card verso describes the Albertype process and reproductions done for commercial and private publications. Forbes has offices in Boston and New York.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265924

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.027

Handbill for Clark W. Bryan & Co., publishers, printers and binders, Nos. 39, 41 and 43 Lyman Street, Springfield, Mass., undated

The Company publishes "Good Housekeeping," "The Paper World" and "Library Bulletin."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265925

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.028

Rand, Avery Company, Boston, Mass., New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, undated

An owl holds a quill in its beak in the logo illustration.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265926

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.029

Handbill for Blair & Hallett, printers, 197 Devonshire Street, corner Franklin, Boston, Mass., September 1889

The businesses shown in the image are Blair & Hallett Printers and Bradstreet's National Revere Bank. There are sample 1889 calendars on the item verso.

Date: 1889-09

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265927

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.030

Sample sheet for the Georgics of Virgil, translated from the Latin into English by J.W. Mackail, Fellow of Balliol College Oxford, The Riverside Press, 1904

The Riverside Press is printed below the design.

Date: 1904

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265976

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.031

Forbes Processes, The Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., Boston, Mass., undated

Forbes solicits business from potential customers by showing Cuban cigar facsimiles printed for the S.S. Pierce Company, the largest importer in New England of Havana cigars.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265977

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.032

Sheet for the Monotype System of Non-Distribution, location unknown, undated

The item verso text reads "Non-Distribution is the heart of the Monotype System of composing room operation."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265978

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.033

Superlative selection of American nineteenth-century historical and advertising broadsides, Wm. Frost Mobley, Mountain Road, Wilbraham, Mass., 1980

The text on the item verso reads "This offprint keepsake is the cover of the first catalogue designed exclusively for paper ephemera. It was printed to commemorate the 'Year of Ephemera' and the Ephemera Society's dedication to the universal appeal of ephemera."

Date: 1980

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265979

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.034

Handbills for fine visiting, wedding and business cards, J. Mayer & Co., general lithographers, No. 4 State Street, Boston, Mass., February 1876

The business claims to be the best establishment for this type of printing in Europe and America.

Date: 1876-02

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265982

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.035

Trade card for the Boston Engraving and Printing Co., No. 37 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., undated

The bottom of the card reads "Illustrations of all kinds by the process of photo-engraving, fine card and mercantile printing."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265984

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.01.003

Price list for Henry F. Griffin, card engraver and stationer, Temple Place, Boston, Mass., undated

Griffin performs engraving on copper, steel, stone, wood and brass.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265985

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.01.004

Greeting card for the McKenzie Engraving Co., 178 Congress Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Text on the card reads "We make a specialty of steel engraved Christmas Cards for business houses."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265986

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.01.005

Advertisement for L.A. Elliot & Co., publishers of prints, wholesale and retail dealers in American and foreign engravings, 322 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Elliot also exhibits and sells paintings by modern artists. The business is located opposite Adams House on Washington Street.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265989

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.01.006

Billhead for C. & G.H. Drew, wholesale and retail dealers in chromos, engravings, lithographs, landscapes and picture-frames, 22 Tremont Street, Boston Museum Building, Boston, Mass., dated May 13, 1872

Drew carries foreign and American stereoscopic views. He will photograph residences for customers.

Date: 1872-05-13

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265990

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.01.007

Price list for Scherer's Modernistic Keystone, 373 Washington Street, Room 87, Boston, Mass., undated

The styles available are shown on the front of the card with the corresponding prices for gold, silver and flatware listed on the item verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265991

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.02.001

Engraving of a cockatoo sitting on a tree branch, location unknown, undated

A white cockatoo sits on a branch in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265992

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.001

Sample card for John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, Mass., 1879

A seascape and a landscape are shown on the card.

Date: 1879

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265993

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.002

Sample card for John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, Mass., undated

A woman wearing a hat is the center image framed by a flower border.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265995

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.003

Sample card for Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, Mass., 1882

A bird sits on a small rowboat with lily pads in the water.

Date: 1882

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265996

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.004

Sample card for 5 Washington Street, Malden, Mass., undated

A horse-drawn verhicle stands in front of a house on Washington Street in Malden, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265998

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.005

Sample card for Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, Mass., 1881

Palm trees are reflected in the water with several white buildings in the background.

Date: 1881

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 265999

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.006

Sample card for T.H. Brackett & Co., Boston, Mass., undated

The card has spaces for a name to be printed or inscribed on it.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266002

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.007

Sample card of two women in the woods, location unknown, undated

Two women, one partially clothed, are in a wooded area in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266003

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.008

Sample card of a couple embracing, location unknown, undated

A couple embraces on the steps in front of a building.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266004

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.009

Sample card for Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, Mass., 1882

A young girl holding a fan walks next to a wall with large plants in the background.

Date: 1882

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266005

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.010

Sample card for Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, Mass., 1882

Smoke emerges from a house in the image.

Date: 1882

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266006

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.011

Label for an unidentified commercial building, location unknown, undated

Horse-drawn vehicles and a streetcar track are next to a commercial building in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266007

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.02.03.012

Beverly, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266008

Ref. Code: AR004.001.001

Boston, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266009

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002

Brookline, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266010

Ref. Code: AR004.001.003

Ipswich, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266011

Ref. Code: AR004.001.005

Lancaster, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266012

Ref. Code: AR004.001.006

Leominster, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266013

Ref. Code: AR004.001.007

Manchester, Mass.

Sub-series

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 266014

Ref. Code: AR004.001.008

Postcard for the Martin Diploma Company, engrossing and illuminating, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., dated January 29, 1927

The card has samples of the work performed by the Company.

Date: 1927-01-29

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266249

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.01.010

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