Matchbook for The Potter Press, Boston, Waltham, Mass., undated

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Ephemera

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GUSN-242581

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Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Books
Booksellers
Books - Booksellers - Trade Cards - Folder 3
Matchbook for The Potter Press, Boston, Waltham, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Books
    - Booksellers
      - Books - Booksellers - Trade Cards - Folder 3
        Matchbook for The Potter Press, Boston, Waltham, Mass., undated (current record)
        Trade card for James Campbell, antiquarian bookstore, Nos. 62 & 64 Cornhill Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for S.C. Northrop, Beehive, corner Main & Cannon Streets, Bridgeport Connecticut, undated
        Trade card for Tompkins & Company, publishers and booksellers trade card, 25 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Briggs & Richards, publishers, booksellers and stationers, No. 456 Washington corner of Essex Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Francis H. Coffin, bookseller, Old No.120 Middle Street, Portland, Maine, 1874
        Trade card for The Knockabout Club in the woods, Estes & Lauriat, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Frank Rivers, dealer in medical, surgical and scientific books and periodicals, 28 School Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Zig-zag journeys in Europe, Estes & Lauriat, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Zig-zag journeys in classic lands, Estes & Lauriat, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Barn Bookshop, 36 Joy St., Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Ideal American Magazines, D. Lothrop & Co., 32 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Paine's Student's Store, 256 Washington Street, Brookline, Mass., undated
        Postcard invitation for Courting equality, a documentary history of America's first legal same-sex marriages, Beacon Press, 24 Farnsworth Street, Boston, Mass., 2007
        Trade card for S.C. Hastings, bookseller & stationer, 144 Main Street, opp. post office, Middletown, Connecticut, undated
        Business card, Michael C. Stone, books, pamphlets, posters & artifacts pertaining to conjuring magic, 77 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

Description

The matchbook reads "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year." Potter Press deals in sales books and business forms. Lion Match, New York is on the curved end of the matchbook.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
publishers
holidays
Christmas
singers
matchbooks

Physical Description

1 matchbook : color illustration ; 4 x 1 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.013.03.03.001

Image Dimensions

4 x 1 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard D. Nylander, 06 May, 2008.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Waltham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

matchbooks

Subjects

Caroling

Description Level

Item

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