Photography

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 Contains purchase records for Whittier's collections of books and antiques. Volume 1 contains bills and receipts from used book dealers (particularly Goodspeed's Book Shop, Charles E. Lauriat Co., N. J. Bartlett & Co., and Maggs Bros.) and antique furniture dealers (particularly Israel Sack, Inc.). Volume 2 consists of mounted photographs--many of which have identifications typed on cards and stapled above--of some of the furniture recorded in vol. 1. Penciled numbers key most of the...

Content Description Photograph album produced by Felix Reifschneider, New York, New York, with "Hilltop Farm Photographs No. 2" embossed on the front cover. The album contains photographs of an unidentified location, including photographs of various buildings, interiors, farm animals, lakes, and fields. There are also photographs of unidentified men, women, and children sitting on porches and on horses or carts in front of houses, as well as engaged in various activities. The album contains several examples of...

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Black and white photograph, mounted on board, showing a stone building with brick facade. Several men stand at windows and doors and various animal hides are draped from windows and a small balcony. Three men stand outside the front of the buildimg with a small, horse-drawn cart.

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...