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

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

1980

GUSN

GUSN-265979

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Printing
General
Printing - General - Folder 3
Superlative selection of American nineteenth-century historical and advertising broadsides, Wm. Frost Mobley, Mountain Road, Wilbraham, Mass., 1980
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Printing
    - General
      - Printing - General - Folder 3
        Trade card for G.P. Brown, advertising cards, Beverly, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Herbert D. Pierce, Boston Blue Print Co., 12 India Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Denison & Grenell, job printing, 270 Chapel Street, Central Block, New Haven, Connecticut, undated
        Trade card for O.A. Dorman, lithographer, stationer, blank book mfr., printer, 692 to 704 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn, undated
        Wiederholung card, Harris, Jones & Co., Providence Lithograph Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 1907
        Label for the Union Printing Co., general printers, Anthony, Rhode Island, undated
        Label for Chas. W. Knight, printer, 88-92 Purchase Street, New Bedford, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Strasburg Clock, What Cheer Printing House, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for J.M. Hewes & Co., printers and publishers, 81 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Robinson & Stephenson, mercantile printers, book & job., 91 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, New Hampshire, June 7, 1881
        Important message for you! American Type Founders Company, Boston, Mass., 1925
        Trade card for Arthur Vogel, The Printshop, type and engraved printing, 234 South Main Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1920
        Engravers bold for high-grade society and commercial printing, American Type Founders Company, Boston, Mass., undated
        Journeyman mechanic's and day-laborer's account book, Thomas O. Walker, 59 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., 1842
        Trade card for Cuthbertson & Black, printers, 1 Minshull Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, undated
        Decoration, The Berkeley Press, printing & typographic service for advertisers, 530 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Heliotype Printing Co., lithographers, artistic printing, 211 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Ira H. Joy, Good Printing, 150-152 Exchange Street, Bangor, Maine, undated
        Forbes Lithograph-Manufacturing Co., Franklin and Devonshire Streets, Boston, Mass., undated
        Cover for Rand, Avery & Co., printers, 117 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Cover for Rand, Avery & Co., printers, 117 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Sample page for Trophies sonnets by José-María de Heredia, Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1900
        Billhead for Chas. J. Batcheller, Dr., plain & ornamental printer, Thayer's Block, Main Street, East Douglas, Mass., dated April 17, 1883
        Billhead for the Forbes Company, Albertype Printers and Photo-Lithographers, 181 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., dated July 31, 1882
        Handbill for Cha's E. Clement, book and job printer, 4 Fletcher Street, Nashua, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., lithographers, Block & Albertype Printers, 21 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Handbill for Clark W. Bryan & Co., publishers, printers and binders, Nos. 39, 41 and 43 Lyman Street, Springfield, Mass., undated
        Rand, Avery Company, Boston, Mass., New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Handbill for Blair & Hallett, printers, 197 Devonshire Street, corner Franklin, Boston, Mass., September 1889
        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
        Forbes Processes, The Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., Boston, Mass., undated
        Sheet for the Monotype System of Non-Distribution, location unknown, undated
        Superlative selection of American nineteenth-century historical and advertising broadsides, Wm. Frost Mobley, Mountain Road, Wilbraham, Mass., 1980 (current record)
        Handbills for fine visiting, wedding and business cards, J. Mayer & Co., general lithographers, No. 4 State Street, Boston, Mass., February 1876
        Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., postcard, Boston, Mass.
        Blotter, Goes Lithographing Company, 42 West 61st Street, Chicago, Illinois
        Postcard, Be good or you'll be sorry, M.T. Sheahan, Boston, Mass.

Description

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."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
printing (process)
broadsides (notices)
ephemera
offprints

Physical Description

1 offprint ; 10 3/4 x 8 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.094.01.03.034

Image Dimensions

10 3/4 x 8 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Greg Smart, June 2001.

Places

Wilbraham (Hampden County, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Ephemera Society of America (Agency)

Material Type

offprints

Other People

Mobley, William Frost

Description Level

Item

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