Boston, MA: The company, nd [1890 ?]. Business card, 3 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches. Though the factory is substantial, we’ve found little about the company, other than it was operating in the late 19th century. Very good. More
Alexandria, VA: Smith & Perkins, nd [ca. 1850]. Trade card, 1 ½ x 3 inches, printed on glossy white card stock (now rather attractively sprinkled around the edges in red). Smith & Perkins was founded in 1835 and closed in 1857 due to bankruptcy. For a short article on the..... More
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Boston: Dexter & Abbot, 1859. Handbill, 8 x 5 inches, printed in several typefaces in small sizes; with integral leaf, addressed and postmarked. Business report from Dexter & Abbot's Mobile office, transmitted by telegraph to Boston and printed there; a picture of the cotton market shortly before the Civil War..... More
Mobile, (AL): Fuller & Garner, October 20, 1835. Printed handbill, 9 3/4 x 8 inches, body of text in italics, blank verso used for a manuscript address (“Abraham Bell & Co., New York”), recto of integral leaf with an autograph letter to Bell’s company, reinforcing the printed portion and soliciting..... More
DeLand, FL. The E.O. Painter Printing Co., n.d. (ca.1909). Buff paperwraps (soiled); gilt lettering on front wrap. Oblong 12mo.; (20pp.). Photo illus. A promotional brochure for DeLand, "the Athens of Florida." A few small pinpricks through rear wrapper, primarily affecting page margins, but occasionally touching an image or a word..... More
Anadarko, OK: N. T. Plummer Printing Co., [1933]. 27 cm. 227pp., illustrations. Green wrappers with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Very good. A history of Lawton, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. More
Hazelhurst: nd [ca. 1870s?]. Business card, 3 ¼ x 2 inches, printed in several styles and sizes of type; also offering references from Oxford (Prof. Wm. F. Stearns), Jackson (Att’y Gen’l. Thos J. Wharton and Wiley P. Harris), and New Orleans; we have been unable to uncover any information regarding..... More
(Norfolk, VA: Young & Bullock), nd [ca. 1860]. Trade card, 2 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches, on card stock. Young & Bullock were active just before the Civil War. Rubbed, some storage soiling, still a good example. More
Norfolk, VA: Rowland & Brothers, nd [ca. 1850]. Trade card, 2 ¼ x 3 ½ inches, on light card stock (upper corner chipped, not affecting text). Rowland & Brothers was active in Norfolk, 1845 through the Civil War. Some storage soiling, but a good example. More
Greensboro, NC: Dept. of Recreation, nd [1940s?]. Business card, 4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches, on white card stock. Parker was the driving force behind the effort to fund and build the Windsor Community Center, Greensboro’s first recreation center for its Black population, which opened in 1937. Very good. More
Mobile, AL: The merchant, nd [ca. 1860s]. Business card, 2 1/8 x 3 ½ inches, several styles and sizes of type, glazed surface (spotted). [Mounted verso through corner slots:] Tintype portrait of Rivers, 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 inches. Rivers is listed as a commission merchant in the 1859 Farrow..... More
