Pottery

Scope and Contents This artificial and still open collection contains printed broadsides, brochures, posters, and other advertising material. Printed processes used include: woodblock printing, engraving, lithography, and photolithography. The majority of the material was produced during the 19th century in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. The most numerous ads are for furniture, clothing and dress, pottery and glassware, and booksellers/stationers. The many illustrations depict products, mechanical...

Scope and Contents The collection primarily documents Melcher’s purchases of goods to sell in his store. It includes printed billheads, bills, drafts, and receipts, which indicate a wide trade with firms in most of New England, and in New York. Melcher purchased such items as knives, cuff pins, coral amulets, ring boxes, chains, earrings, pins for fraternal orders, candlesticks, Parian pitchers, rings (some set with stones), jet jewelry, thimbles, coffin plates, ladles, scissors, buttons, watch fobs, tea...

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This artificial and still open collection contains receipts for household products and personal goods. Material culture including house furnishings, clothing, pottery, textiles, food, etc. are included. Of the 150 or so items in the collection, over 60% date from the 19th century; the remainder originated from the 18th century.

Content Description

Sample book from an unidentified Staffordshire, England pottery, containing proofs and samples of logos, branding, and advertisements for over 600 domestic and international locations and businesses. These marks may have been used for producing "badge ware," a type of transferware pottery used as samples, that incoperated multiple designs available from a pottery onto a single surface.

Scope and Contents This artificial and still open collection contains thousands of trade cards and labels that advertise a variety of products, including house furnishings, toys and games, jewelry, horse equipage, gas appliances, foodstuffs, hardware, sewing products, paints, medicines, personal goods, etc. Service oriented businesses, such as commission merchants and insurance companies, also advertised through the collection's cards and labels. There are also stock cards (that is, cards kept in stock by...