Historic New England

Inauguration of Franklin statue ribbon, Boston, Mass., September 17, 1856

The ribbon shows a portrait of Benjamin Franklin for the statue dedication in 1856.

Date: 1856-09-17

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242517

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.03.01.001

Receipt for C.F. Greely's Marble Works, Exeter, New Hampshire, dated September 22, 1866

Greely manufactures monuments, grave stones and counter and table tops.

Date: 1866-09-22

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242518

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.03.01.002

Receipt for Moss & Dow, Hampton, dated July 1, 1867

Moss & Dow performed work around a monument in a cemetary.

Date: 1867-07-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242519

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.03.01.003

Receipt for Martin & Harmon, Boston, Mass., August 7, 1866

The receipt is for three marble flats.

Date: 1866-08-07

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242520

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.03.01.004

Billhead for E. Camfill & Son, Dr., statuary and monumental work, Forest Hills, Mass., January 1, 1879

The business designs and manufactures cemetary work in marble, granite or freestone.

Date: 1879-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242521

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.03.01.005

Billhead for The Sprague & Hathaway Co., portrait artists and solar printers, West Somerville, Mass., dated September 23, 1896

Sprague & Hathaway manufacture and export picture frames, easels, mats and novelties.

Date: 1896-09-23

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242522

Ref. Code: EP001.01.010.01.01.001

Billhead for Wadsworth Bros. & Howland, painters' supplies and artists' materials, 84 Washington & 46 Friend Streets, Boston, Mass., September 25, 1882

The company manufactures varnishes and japans. There is an illustration of the business to the left on the billhead.

Date: 1882-09-25

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242523

Ref. Code: EP001.01.010.01.01.002

Billhead for The Sprague & Hathaway Co., portrait artists and solar printers, West Somerville, Mass., May 10, 1895

Sprague & Hathaway claim to be "the largest establishment in this line in the world" according to the billhead.

Date: 1895-05-10

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242524

Ref. Code: EP001.01.010.01.01.003

Envelope containing French Gold Leaf Bronze sample, Asahel Wheeler, dealer, No. 145 Milk Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The envelope contains a sample of French Gold Leaf Bronze wrapped in a folded sheet of paper. Wheeler is a dealer in bronze powders, metal leaf, colored foil papers and fine colors for decorative purposes.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242525

Ref. Code: EP001.01.010.01.02.001

Advertisement for N.D. Cotton, drawing materials and stationery, 272 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Figures stand around easels in the process of drawing with artists' materials strewn on the floor.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242526

Ref. Code: EP001.01.010.01.02.002

Trade card for H. Kendall, auctioneer and appraiser, 343 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

An image of Edgar Allan Poe is used to illustrate this trade card.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242528

Ref. Code: EP001.01.011.01.01.002

Billhead for F.J. Sheldon, Dr., auctioneer and appraiser, 127 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island, dated April 6, 1889

The billhead provides details on sale days and times.

Date: 1889-04-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242529

Ref. Code: EP001.01.011.01.01.003

Trade card for The Moore Air-Tight Barrel Closer Company, Peabody, Mass., ca. 1891

The card verso describes the features of the Patent Air-Tight Barrel Closer for packing, shipping and as a garbage receptacle.

Date: ca. 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242530

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.01.001

Letterhead for B.& A.D. Fessenden, cooperage and lumber, Townsend, Mass., dated May 19, 1893

Fessenden manufactures cooperage, lumber, fish pails and kits, pickle, lard, syrup and fish packages.

Date: 1893-05-19

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242531

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.01.002

Trade card for Little & Porter, splint and ratan baskets, Andover, Connecticut, undated

The business is a successor to N.P. Little.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242532

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.001

Trade card for Frank E. Fitts Mfg. and Supply Co., barrels, 88 Purchase St., Boston, Mass., undated

The Fitts Company supplies extra iron bottom, double rim and ash barrels.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242533

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.002

Business card for Fred Theise Manufacturing Co., baskets, 174-176 Commercial Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card states that fancy fruit and gift baskets are a specialty.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242534

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.003

Sidney Gage & Co. baskets, Bellows Falls, Vermont, undated

Photographs of the basket product line manufactured by Gage & Company.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242535

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.004

Trade card for Benton & Co., patent folding paper boxes, 317 to 325 Congress Ave., New Haven, Connecticut, undated

Benton provides lithographed boxes for all types of manufactured products. The card verso provides samples of their work.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242536

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.005

Letterhead for F.W. Bird & Son, roofings and boxes, East Walpole, Mass., undated

Bird manufactures insulating waterproof roofings and paper boxes.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242537

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.006

Trade card for Frank K. Bailey, second hand barrels, No. 170 Maple Avenue, Barre, Vermont, undated

Dealer Bailey handles junk and hard wood ashes.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242538

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.007

Trade card for Otis Allen & Son, filling boxes, Lowell, Mass., April 1890

The dealer warns customers to beware of product imitators. The right side of the card has a calendar for April 1890.

Date: 1890-04

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242539

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.008

Billhead for C.H. Stephenson, barrels, 27 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass., dated May 7, 1910

The billhead images show foot bath attachments for bathtubs. The items purchased are Stephenson Spiral Ribbed Ash Barrels.

Date: 1910-05-07

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242540

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.009

Letterhead for Union Box and Lumber Company, lumber boxes and box shooks, 98-104 Washington Street, Auburn, Maine, dated September 18, 1913

The letterhead has an image of the company factory in Auburn, Maine.

Date: 1913-09-18

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242541

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.010

Letterhead for William H. Champlin, box shook and locked corner boxes, Rochester, New Hampshire, dated February 11, 1921

Champlin has mutliple plants in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. He deals in dressed lumber, sawdust and kindling wood.

Date: 1921-02-11

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242542

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.011

Tag for Carl Burwick & Co., bags, Worcester, Mass., undated

The tag reads "The Bag House of the Eastern Farmer" below the name Carl Burwick & Company. The tag verso has lines for the number of bundles in the shipment and the number and kind of bags. It also states to keep clean and dry.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242543

Ref. Code: EP001.01.012.01.02.012

Advertisement for Literary & Scientific Class-Book & Leavitt's Easy Lessons, location unknown, undated

An advertisement for an establishment selling specific text books.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242561

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.01.01.001

Wide awake advertiser, Boston, Mass., 1878

An advertisement in Wide awake magazine for Bodley Books by H.E. Scudder and Bracket and Lester Saws made by the Millers Falls Company. The verso describes stories in 1878 issues of Wide awake.

Date: 1878

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242562

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.01.02.001

Trade card for the Pictorial Book Bindery, Gleason's Publishing Hall, No.1 Montgomery Place, Boston, Mass., 1854

This bookbinder performs edge gilding and marbling and does work for the trade or on single volumes. The bottom of the card has William Ulman, Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1854

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242563

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.02.01.001

Trade card for Horace A. Brooks, book binder, 224 Essex St. Salem, Mass., undated

The bottom of the card has J.G. Fuller, Agent. This business does magazines, newspapers and periodicals of every description.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242564

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.02.01.002

S.T. Blanchard book binder, over the bookstore, Main Street, Watertown, Mass., undated

In addition to books and periodicals this bookbinder will create portfolios and scrapbooks.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242565

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.02.01.003

Spear & Stearns blank book manufacturers, book-binders and wholesale stationers, No.6 Central Row, Hartford, Conn., undated

Spear & Stearns deals in all kinds of paper. The notebook is filled in and appears to be a type of ledger. The front cover has an illustrration of the Roman goddess Minerva.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242566

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.02.01.004

Billhead for E.P. Dutton & Co., publishers, booksellers and importers, 135 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated December 24, 1867

Dutton specializes in supplying public and private libraries. The address is the "Old Corner Bookstore" shown in the image.

Date: 1867-12-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242567

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.01.002

Billhead for Carter, Hendee & Co., publishers, booksellers and stationers, at Faust's statue 131 Washington St., Boston, Mass., dated May 30, 1833

The business is located on Washington Street at Faust's statue.

Date: 1833-05-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242568

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.01.003

Billhead for Estes & Lauriat, publishers, booksellers, and importers, 301 to 305 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated December 24, 1881

The business, opposite the "Old South," deals in old and new books and the purchase of whole libraries.

Date: 1881-12-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242569

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.01.004

Billhead for Ticknor & Fields, publishers, booksellers, importers and stationers, 135 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated July 1, 1861

The billhead gives the terms on which payment is expected.

Date: 1861-07-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242570

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.01.005

Billhead for D. Lothrop and Company, publishers, importers and booksellers, 30 & 32 Franklin St., Boson, Mass., dated December 24, 1883

The publisher's terms are described on the billhead.

Date: 1883-12-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242571

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.01.006

Orange Judd Company's list of rural books, 245 Broadway, New York, New York, ca. 1865

The leaflet lists titles by categories such as "Farm and Garden," Poultry," and "Horses." The books are for sale by Lockwood, Brooks & Company in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: ca. 1865

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242572

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.001

Historic Plymouth, an illustrated guide, A.S. Burbank, publisher, Plymouth, Mass., undated

A.S. Burbank owns the Pilgrim Book Store in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The leaflet is a list of postcards but also includes books and other items sold in the shop.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242573

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.002

Trade card for Weeks, Jordan & Co., booksellers & publishers and Russell, Shattuck & Co., 121 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1837

Russell, Shattuck deals in books, stationery, periodicals, maps and engravings. The two businesses are successors to S. Colman. The verso describes a prospectus available in August.

Date: 1837

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242574

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.003

Christmas greetings from Beacon Hill, Ye Olde Grey House, bookshop, 58-60 Anderson Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass, December 1924

A trade card in the form of a greeting card listing the special teas, lunches and dinners to be held in Ye Olde Grey House Bookshop. The business is also a lending library. The verso provides a history of the property.

Date: 1924-12

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242575

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.004

Historic Plymouth catalogue of photographs, souvenirs, guides and illustrated books, A.S. Burbank, Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Mass., undated

The catalog has images of souvenirs and silverware sold by the ship.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242576

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.005

Lee and Shepard's illustrated catalogue, location unknown, undated

Four pages from another publication describing the books and souvenirs available from Lee and Shepard.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242577

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.006

Receipt for book at W.D Ticknor's

A handwritten receipt listing various items sold at [what appears to be] W. D. Ticknor's, Palm Leaf Mattress, Bunker Hill Monument, Horticultural Exhibition. "W. D. Ticknor's" is probably a reference to the Old Corner Book Store opened in 1832 by William Davis Ticknor, John Allen, and, later, James ...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242578

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.007

Second catalogue, Moses King, publisher and bookseller, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., undated

The annotated catalog lists available titles with an introduction and an image of Thomas Wentworth Higginson on the front.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242579

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.02.008

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

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.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242581

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.03.001

Trade card for James Campbell, antiquarian bookstore, Nos. 62 & 64 Cornhill Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The dealer supplies town and social libraries, textbooks and purchases entire libraries.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242582

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.03.002

Trade card for S.C. Northrop, Beehive, corner Main & Cannon Streets, Bridgeport Connecticut, undated

Northrop handles books, stationery, chromos, vases, toilet sets, toys and other items described on the card verso. The front image is captioned "Josephine Mansfield." Mansfield was at the center of the notorious murder of James Fisk, a wealthy financier.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242583

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.03.003

Trade card for Tompkins & Company, publishers and booksellers trade card, 25 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., undated

Three individuals are listed on the bottom of the card.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242584

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.03.004

Trade card for Briggs & Richards, publishers, booksellers and stationers, No. 456 Washington corner of Essex Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business manufactures picture frames and deals in engravings, fancy goods, school and blank books.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 242585

Ref. Code: EP001.01.013.03.03.005

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