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1844
Prints: Boston, Ma.: State Street
GUSN-198214
A blue page advertisement for Thomas Groom & Co. with an illustration of the warehouse, located at No. 82 State Street, Boston, "Importers of Steel Pens and English Stationery / Publishers of the Boston Almanac and Willis & Co.'s Bank Note List." Below the warehouse engraving is a description of a new book for sale, published by Thomas Groom & Co.: "A New and Accurate Method of Finding a Ship's Position at Sea" by Capt. Thomas H. Sumner, late master of ship Cabot, of New York.
paper (fiber product)
warehouses
account books
stationery
pens (drawing and writing)
publishers
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR203
1 newspaper engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1919-02-27
GC002.01.MA.3050.001
Gift
7 x 4 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Worcester, Fernando Edwards, b. 1818 (Engraver)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Thomas Groom & Co.
State Street (Boston, Mass.)
Fair
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: State Street
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