THE JOHN SPRINGER PRINTING EPHEMERA COLLECTION
Collection Dates: [1866 -- 1934]
8.5 linear ft.
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Addendum: 2003
Acquisition Note: The Springer collection was bequeathed
to the University of Iowa by John Springer upon his death in 1937.
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Scope and Contents
The Springer Ephemra Collection contains more than 1,600 items and more than 400 calling cards -- in excess of 2,000 items in all -- organized into 19 boxes. Items have been grouped by format (e.g., calendars in Box 1, tokens in Box 18), by subject (e.g., paper in Box 3, advertising materials related to food in Box 12) and by events (e.g., 1893 World's Fair in Box 10, Iowa City events in Box 14). Few of these groupings are entirely systematic and related materials, however defined, can often be found in more than one place in the collection.
A summary of the contents of each box follows. It precedes a box-by-box, item-by-item inventory. The links at each box number in the summary will take you directly to the inventory of that box. E.g., to go to the inventory of World's Fair material in Box 10, click on "Box 10" in the summary.
In addition to the ephemeral pieces inventoried here, Springer (1850 -- 1937), an Iowa City printer, presented some 2,000 books documenting or illustrating the history of printing. These titles are held together as a collection in Special Collections and are cataloged on InfoHawk. A shelflist in card format is also available in the Special Collections department.
Series Table of Contents
Box 1 -- 133 items
Calenders: 22 items (1871 -- 1917)
Political Literature: Iowa State & Local: 40 items (1884 -- 1904)
Book Sellers and Publishers' Catalogs and Advertisments
I: 18 items (1856 -- 1931)
II: 22 items (1895 -- 1933)
III: 31 items (1879 -- 1936)
Box 2 -- 100 items
Advertising Literature: Companies and industries: 32 items (1878 -- 1927)
Printers and Publishers
I: 28 items (1873 -- 1921)
II: 17 items (1881 -- 1899)
III. R.R. Donnelly & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), Chicago: 23 items (
1922 -- 1936)
Box 3 -- 90 items
Paper.
I: 11 items (1890 -- 1913)
II: 21 items (1884 -- 1899)
III: 16 items (n.d.)
IV: 13 items (1899 -- 1927)
V: 12 items (1901 -- 1918)
VI: 17 items (1882 -- 1928)
Box 4 -- 130 items
Printing Machinery & Equipment
I: 19 items (1881 -- 1913)
II: 37 items (1880 -- 1913)
III: 18 items (1894 -- 1913)
Stitching Machines: 8 items (1911)
Paper Cutters: 23 items (1894 -- 1913)
Punching Machines: 9 items (1894 -- 1913)
Hand Trucks: 8 items (1912 -- 1913)
Numbering Machines: 8 items (1893 -- 1911)
Box 5 -- 98 items
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Chicago, Illinois
I: 10 items (1887 -- 1902)
II: 17 items (1889 -- 1902)
Inland Type Foundry, St. Louis: 22 items (1897 -- 1900)
American Type Founders Company, New York City: 49 items (1880 -- 1902)
Box 6 -- 74 items
Other Type Foundries and Agents
I: 26 items (1878 -- 1913)
II: 10 items (1889 -- 1920)
Type-Setting Equipment
I: 21 items (1890 -- 1915)
II: 17 items (1894 -- 1913)
Box 7 -- 114 items
Printing Presses
I: 22 items (1895 -- 1913)
II: 20 items (1878 -- 1912)
III: 16 items (1913)
IV: 11 items (1880)
Golding Mfg. Company: Franklin, Mass., Boston, Philadelphia, & Chicago: 14 items (1870 -- 1912)
Franklin, Mass., Boston, Philadelphia, & Chicago: 14 items (1870 -- 1912)
John Thomson Press Company: New York: 8 items (1896 -- 1913)
R. Hoe & Co.: New York & London: 4 items (1889 -- 1910)
Kaumor Automatic Press Co.: New York City: 5 items (n.d.)
Box 8 -- 69 items
Printing Ink: 32 items (1893 -- 1930)
Printer's Unions: 9 items (1874 -- 1927)
Engraving Firms: 5 items (1887 -- 1890)
Iowa Press Association: 8 items (1886 -- 1900)
National Editorial Association: 7 items (1891)
Advertising Literature: Typewriters: 8 items (1876 -- 1898)
Box 9 -- 137 items
Advertising Literature: Publications
I: 47 items (1876 -- 1910)
II: 18 items (1876 -- 1934)
Advertising Literature: Newspapers and Newspaper Publishing: 72 items (1856 -- 1933)
Box 10 -- 140 items
Expositions: 27 items (1890 -- 1940)
World's Fair (1893) Literature: 72 items (1888 -- 1894)
Showbills: 8 items (1877 -- 1901)
Programs: Theaters, Clubs, Vaudeville, Shows, Churches, and Others: 23 items (1877 -- 1927)
Invitations: 10 items (1878 -- 1892)
Box 11 -- 85 items
Political Literature: National: 73 items (1876 -- 1917)
Almanacs: 5 items (1876 -- 1933)
Bicycles: Booklets and Advertising: 7 items (1884 -- 1898)
Box 12 -- 216 items
Advertising Literature
Alcoholic Beverages: 29 items (1886 -- 1915)
Wearing apparel: 17 items (1880 -- 1929)
Food: 18 items (1890 -- 1910)
Lecturers and Entertainers: 43 items (1928 -- 1943)
Patient Medicine: 27 items (1887 -- 1897)
Miscellaneous Products: 82 items (1891 -- 1917)
Box 13 -- 70 items
Services: 13 items (1884 -- 1913)
Tobacco and tobacco products: 8 items (1860)
Travel: 46 items (1882 -- 1927)
Religious Tracts: 3 items (n.d.)
Box 14 -- 78 items
Iowa City: Inviations, programs: 49 items (1870 -- 1915)
Iowa City. Notices, Documents, Miscellaneous Papers: 29 items (1857 -- 1914)
Box 15 -- 64 items
Advertising Literature: Iowa City Merchants: 33 items (1855 -- 1929)
Iowa Literature: Miscellaneous: 25 items (1888 -- 1927)
State University of Iowa: 6 items (1891 -- 1947)
Box 16 -- 61 items
Miscellaneous I: 28 items (1863 -- 1930)
Miscellaneous II: 33 items (1877 -- 1929)
Box 17 -- 434 items
Wedding, Death Announcements, Inviations, Greeting Cards, and Notices: 86 items
Calling Cards: (including 273 lodge cards) 348 items
Box 18 -- 115 items
Ribbons, Medals, Buttons, Souvenirs, Tokens
Box 19 -- Magazine and Newspaper Clippings -- 665 items.
Item Inventory
Correspondence: Letters date from 1866 to 1916.
Calendars
Calumet Paper Co., Chicago. 1890
L.B. Chapin, Sloan, Iowa. 1917
Clark's O-N-T spool cotton (thread) (n.p.). 1895
Crane Brothers (Paper makers), Westfield, Mass. 1898
A. DeFollett & Son (Printers), Brooklyn.1878
Des Moines Piano Co., Des Moines, Iowa 1893
Jos. Eichbaum & Co., Pittsburgh (Printers). 1882
Home Insurance Co., New York. 1894
E.W. Hoyt & Co., Lowell, Mass. (tooth powder & cologne).1888
Irish's University Business College, Iowa City.1901
P. Harold Hayes, M.D., Buffalo, N.Y.1901
Hood's Sarsaparilla, (Lowell, Mass.).1899
Howard Lockwood & Co., New York (printer & publisher).1891
Marlin Fire Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 1902
McClure's Magazine.1910
Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Co., New York 1898
Munn & Co., New York (Scientific American magazine).1873
Mutual Life Insurance Co., New York.1900
Osborne Company, Red Oak, Iowa (Art calendars).1898
Osborne Company, Red Oak, Iowa (Osborne Art Calendars).1899
Phenix Insurance Co., of Brooklyn. 1871
Sun Insurance Office, London.1894
American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association.
Petition form, form letter, sample membership certificate, and news release by John Q. Adams, secretary of AFHBRMA, an organization established to save the Betsy Ross house as a shrine (c.1899).
Political Literature: Iowa State & Local
Warning to voters to beware of bogus tickets of candidates for office -- lists legal political tickets for coming election (n.d.)
Democratic State Convention, Council Bluffs (1892), 2 tickets.
Gov. Horace Boies (1892), ticket to second inauguration.
Democratic ticket with Augustus C. Dodge running for Governor and 15 other candidates for office (n.d.)
"Twenty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa. January 11, 1892" -- booklet lists membership of legislature
20th General Assembly Senate (1884), photomontage of members.
G.M. Curtis for Congress (n.d.), 3 campaign ads.
Joe R. Lane, candidate for Congress, speech given at West Liberty [16pp.] (1898)
Anti-A.B. Cummins sheets prepared by Republicans (c. 1887), 2 sheets.
"Citizens' Ticket" of candidates for office, "Anti-Chinese" and "Anti-Monopoly" for 10th Senatorial District (n.d.)
"Regular Republican Ticket" of candidates from 9th Senatorial District (n.d.)
Iowa (City) Citizen for 1901, supplement showing Republican candidates for offices in county with biographies and stand of each "Republican State Ticket" of candidates (n.d.)
Democratic Ticket of candidates (n.d.)
Democratic Ticket of candidates (n.d.)
"All about the Finn Case" by E. Houck -- personal defense reprinted from newspaper (1892)
Handbill with excerpt from Gov. Wm. Larrabee's inaugural address, 1886, alluding to moral deprivation of Iowa City as home of SUI -- people are called on to register official disapproval of insinuation program of Democratic State Convention, Council Bluffs, 1892
Democratic Press Banquet of Iowa at Ottumwa (1891), invitation
Democratic Press Banquet at Ottumwa, (1891)
"Democratic State Ticket" of candidates (n.d.), sovenir program
"Where the People's Money Goes" -- reprint of article from Iowa City Republican showing how tax money is apportioned (1887)
Handbill with Democratic ticket of nominees of Democratic County convention with ad urging Democrats to subscribe to Iowa State Press, a Democratic newspaper (c.1894)
Background on and stand of John C. Bills, Democratic nominee for Congress from 2nd District (n.d.), reprint from Davenport Leader.
Democratic State Convention, Davenport (1892) "Regular Democratic Ticket" of candidates from 13th Senatorial district (n.d.), ticket issued to alternate.
Torch-light parade in Iowa City by Democrats (n.d.), poster.
"Democratic State Ticket" of candidates with Johnson County and Iowa City Township tickets attached (n.d.)
"To the Catholic Voters of Iowa County" (c.1887), broadside
"State Democratic Ticket" of candidates with Johnson County and Iowa City Township tickets attached (n.d.)
"Rules of Organization Governing the Democratic Party of Iowa", adopted 1893
"Program of the Democratic State Convention" at Iowa City (1904 (1 sheet and ticket)
"Character sketches of prominent persons" (full-length drawings): William B. Allison, George M. Pullman, and James Wilson (n.d.)
"Why did (Ex-Sec'y of State) Dobson Resign" from presidency of National Life & Trust Co. and sell all of his stock -- pamphlet reprinting letter to editor of Sioux City Journal by G.L. Dobson (1902)
"A Correct Translation of a Circular Published in the Bohemian Language and Distributed Throughout This County" addressed to voters of Johnson County (1895)
"Platform of J.P. Gallagher, Democratic Candidate for Congress, Second Iowa District" -- pamphlet (n.d.)
"Something to Think About" by George W. Swords & Wm H. Conant; about taxation in Johnson County and new court house. booklet [32pp.] (n.d.)
Charles Landon Breckon, nominee of Social Democratic Party for 2nd Cong. District -- biographical campaign pamphlet (n.d.)
Election ballot (n.d.), 2 copies.
Book Sellers and Publishers' Catalogs and Advertisements -- I
The Aldus Book Co., Ltd., New York -- catalog of used books (n.d.)
Cheshire House, Inc., New York City -- announcement of 12 new titles to be published (1931)
Field & Tuer, London, England -- folder of loose pages advertising new publications for sale (c. 1881)
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston -- catalog of maps of America [43pp.] (1929)
Grafton & Co., London -- sale catalog (1927)
Oscar H. Harpel, Cincinnati, Ohio -- pamphlet catalog of book sale (n.d.)
Frank Hollings, London -- double catalog of books for sale by bookseller (n.d.)
Houghton-Mifflin and Company, Boston & New York -- list of Holiday Books (1895)
The Montmartre Gallery, Ltd., London -- catalog of rare books, prints, and antiques for sale (n.d.)
J. Munsell, Albany, New York -- catalog of bibliographical works for sale (1856)
National Christian Association, Chicago -- list of works on secret societies for sale (n.d.)
The Peter Paul Book Company, Buffalo, New York -- list of new and forthcoming books with short biographies of living writers (with portraits) (1895)
Peter Pauper Press, New Rochelle, New York -- prospectus of new publications (n.d.)
Pynson Printers, Inc., New York -- list of Pynson Printers' imprints (1931)
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York -- catalog of Holiday Books (1895)
B.F. Stevens Agency, London, England -- booklet listing English, French and German magazines available with subscription rates (1880)
Guy Stonestreet, New York -- pamplet catalog of books offered for sale (1930)
Tondeur & Sauberlich, Leipzig, Germany -- catalog of second-hand books for sale (c.1930)
Book Sellers and Publishers' Catalogs and Advertisements -- II
Benn Brothers Limited, London, England -- prospectus for "The Players Shakespeare" with letter to John Springer from sales manager enclosed (1923)
The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, Ohio -- prospectus for Fringilla by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, illustrations by Will H. Bradley (1895)
Clarke Conwell (The Elston Press), New York -- prospectus for edition of Richard de Bury's Philobiblon (1901)
Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc., New York -- ad for forthcoming publications.of Wm Edwin Rudge publishing house (c.1926)
The Davenant Bookshop, Oxford, England -- ad prospectus for "The Shakespeare Head Spenser" to be published for Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1930)
Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York -- booklet of specimen pages from The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary.16pp. (n.d.)
The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California -- ad folder for small book by Theodore L. DeVinne on Christopher Plantin (n.d.)
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York -- sheet advertising Mark Twain's Joan of Arc (n.d.)
Elisha K. Kane, Kane, Pennsylvania -- brochure advertising The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita (c. 1930)
Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York -- ad booklet soliciting members and listing first 12 books offered by club (n.d.)
The Macmillan Company, New York -- prospectus for Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean (n.d.)
Macmillan & Co., Cambridge, England -- 2 brochures for reprints of first books printed at Cambridge with specimen enclosed (n.d.)
Maggs Brothers, London, England -- ad folder with order form for Stanley Morison's German Incunabula in the British Museum (1928)
A.C. McClurg & Co., (New York?) -- ad sheet for Lawrence Perry's Prince or Chauffeur (n.d.)
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois -- 3 brochures advertising The Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile by Alfred Bonnardot (1931)
William Farquhar Payson, New York -- prospectus for story by James Fenimore Cooper, "The Lake Gun" to be published in book form (1932)
The Pynson Printers, New York -- prospectus advertising The Decorative Work of T.M Cleland (1929) (with check list of Pynson imprints inserted)
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York -- form letter advertising "Thistle" edition of Robert Lewis Stevenson's works and "Sabine" edition of Eugene Field's writings with accompanying prospects for each (1896)
Charles K. Stotlemeyer, Hancock, Maryland -- brochure advertising Merle Johnson's American First Editions with specimen page from new edition (n.d.)
Street & Smith, New York -- sheet advertising Princess Series of paperback novels (n.d.)
Thomas Thorp, Bookseller, London, England -- prospectus with specimen pages from The Oxford English Dictionary to be re-issued (1933)
Urest Orton, New York -- prospectus and order form for fine editions of three American classics (n.d.)
Book Sellers and Publishers' Catalogs and Advertisements -- III
George H. Bidwell, New York -- folder advertising The Prompt Computer for Printers (n.d.)
Clarke Conwell, New York -- announcement that first book to be issued by Conwell's Elston Press will be Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth B. Browning (1900)
Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc., New York -- folder advertising The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, pub. by Random House, for sale by bookshop 1930)
The Export Book Co., Preston, Lancs., England -- selections from library of Lord Stanley of Alderley which are for sale (1933)
Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, New York -- prospectus with facsimile of title page of The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly (1930)
The Graphic Arts Company, Boston, Massachusetts -- prospectus for Historic Design in Printing by Henry Lewis Johnson (1923); order form included
Graphic Arts Publishing Company, Chicago -- sheet advertising The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Printing (n.d.)
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts -- prospectus for The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature by Howard R. Patch (n.d.)
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, Massachusetts -- announcement of the Riverside Aldine Series of finely printed books (1885)
A.J. Johnson Company, New York -- prospectus for Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia containing specimen pages (n.d.)
Leary's Book Store, Philadelphia -- "An Old Landmark, a Famous Book Store" by Joseph Jackson [29pp]. (1920) -- booklet history of the bookstore
Linweave Limited Editions, (n.p.) -- prospectus for The Middle Passage by Daniel Chase with introduction to his novel reprinted ("The Course") (1931)
Longmans, Green & Co., New York -- order form and advertisement for Stanley J. Weyman's Shrewsbury and his other titles (n.d.)
The Macmillan Company, New York and other cities -- prospectus for New York by Ethel Fleming (n.d.)
Maggs Brothers, London and Paris -- sheet advertising The Book Collector's Guide by Seymour de Ricci (n.d.)
A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago -- folder advertising Charlotte Temple by "Mrs. Rawson", one of Altemus' Printemps Series novels (n.d.), 2 copies
Newman F. McGirr, Philadelphia -- bookseller's announcement of John Clyde Oswald's Benjamin Franklin in Oil and Bronze (c. 1920's); order blank enclosed
Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands -- advertisement for L'Art Typographique dans les Pays-Bas... by Wouter Nijhoff (c.1923)
The Players, New York -- prospectus for The First English Actresses... by Henry W. Lamer, part of The Players Series 1931, 2 copies
Albert A. Pope (Pope Manufacturing Company), Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut -- form letter and circular accompanying complimentary copy of Errors in School-Books (1893)
Pynson Printers, Inc., New York -- prospectus with specimen pages of Dard Hunter's A Papermaking Pilgrimage (1936)
Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago and New York -- sheet advertising Prince Schamgi's Wooing by Richard H. Savage, one of Oriental Library series (c.1890's), 2 copies
William Edwin Rudge, New York -- pamphlet describing edition of The Lights of Canopus to be published by Rudge (n.d.). Enclosed is a smaller brochure for Dard Hunter's Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries (1930)
William Edwin Rudge, New York -- prospectus for Gutenberg and the Book of Books with facsimile of a page from Gutenberg Bible (n.d.)
Hugo Schmidt, Munich, Germany -- pamphlet advertising several titles published and sold by Schmidt (n.d.)
Scientific Publishing Company, New York -- advertisement for Gems and Precious Stones of North America by George Frederic Kunz {n.d.)
Henry Sotheran & Co., Booksellers, London, England -- sheet advertising book sale of early English printed works (1895)
The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine -- prospectus for Early American Children's Books by A.S.W. Rosenbach (1933) (with specimen page)
John Springer's forthcoming Catalogue of Books on Printing featuring title page of Proposals for Printing an Exact and Ample Account of all the Books Printed by William Caxton... printed by Springer at Daily Press Office, Iowa City, Iowa, December 10, 1879 -- specimen sheet, 2 copies.
B. Westermann & Co., New York -- ad folder for A Universal English-German and German-English Dictionary by Dr. Felix Flugel for sale by company 1890
Advertising Literature: Companies and Industries
Allegheny Insurance Co., Pittsburgh -- ad card with formal reminder of date of expiration of policy printed on one side (c. 1880's)
Armstrong Cork Company, St. Louis -- business card printed on paper-thin piece of genuine cork (n.d.)
William Buchanan, Kansas City, St. Louis, Texarkana, Texas -- informational booklet about lumber company c7pp.m (c. 1896)
Builders Iron Foundry, Providence -- calendar for 1900
J.W. Burdette, Chicago -- business card with announcement folder from lawyer (probate) announcing establishment of new practice (n.d.)
Central Nursery, Waukee, Iowa -- ad card for seed and nursery company (n.d.)
A.U. Coates, Perry, Iowa -- ad card for retailer of "musical merchandise" (c. 1901)
Coheco Manufacturing Co., Dover, New Hampshire -- ad card for manufacturer of cotton yard goods (n.d.)
Gage Brothers & Co., Inc. (n.p.) -- ad card for exhibit sponsored by company (type of business not stated) (n.d.)
R.J. Gunning Co., Chicago -- ad card for advertising sign contractor (1893)
Hayden Brothers, Omaha -- ad card for dry goods store (n.d.)
Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co., Chicago -- "History of Paints, Pigments and Colors..." booklet, [72pp.], (1897)
Frederick Keppel & Co., New York -- ad card from art gallery for exhibit of works by Earl Horter (1916)
Kiggins & Tooker Co., New York -- calling card from stationery firm (1899)
Lyman Brothers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa -- brochures for millinery shop (n.d.), 2 copies
O.J. Maigne Co., New York & Philadelphia -- "How We Lost a Customer" (type of business not syated) (n.d.), booklet
Monahan Express Company, New York -- ad folder for new building stating there is floor space to rent in it (n.d.)
Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago -- booklet "Souvenir" with brief sketch of business activities at Wards -- [25pp.], (1898)
"Announcement of General Catalogue, Spring and Summer 1 9 " [24pp.], (1898) (booklet in mailing envelope)
Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co., Omaha -- ad card (n.d.)
Penn Mutual Life (Insurance Co.), Philadelphia -- business card from agent Frank Perry, Davenport, Iowa (n.d.)
Pyrie -- Birks Ltd., Toronto -- ad fold-out pamphlet from diamond merchant (c. 1927)
Publishers' Collection Agency, New York -- ad printed on cardboard ruler and type measure (n.d.)
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago -- certificate for a 50 cent mail order catalog (n.d.)
Simpson's Mail Order Co. Toronto -- ad brochure (1927)
M. E. Smith & Co., Omaha -- ad card for dry goods store (1898)
F. Ad. Muller Sohne, Wiesbaden, Germany -- ad card for manufacturer of glass eyes (n.d.)
M. Spiesberger & Son Co., Keokuk -- invitation brochure to attend "Spring Opening Display" of millinery (n.d.)
Standard Live Stock Commission Co., Chicago -- pocket notebook, advertising incl. (1895)
Sterns', Keokuk, Iowa -- ad sheet for "street fair" given by millinery shop (n.d.)
Taylor Brothers, London, England -- folder stating that company has won "Bronze Medal for Excellence of Manufacture" at International Exhibition, Paris, 1878 (type of business not stated)
Zimmerman Steel Company, Lone Tree, Iowa -- large ad fold-out for steel manufacturing firm (c.1909)
Printers and Publishers -- I
The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio -- booklet describing the company (1894)
Griffith, Axtell, & Cady Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts -- ad sheet for "Ideal Masterpieces" Art Advertising sheet (for insertion in newspapers, etc.) (1891)
Meyer-Rotier Printing Company, Milwaukee -- brochure advertising typography of which company is capable (n.d.)
American Colortype Company, Chicago & New York City -- ad booklet for company's color printing [22pp] (c.1921)
The Chapple Press, Boston -- booklet describing the Chapple Press print shop (n.d.)
Egbert, Fidlar, & Chambers, Davenport, Iowa -- complimentary voting booklet for use in lodge elections, consisting of blank pages (n.d.), 2 copies
Charles Austin Bates, New York -- leaflet of testimonials from several newspapers for Bates' ad cards (c.1897)
J.F. Farhart Printing Company, Columbus, Ohio -- 2 business cards (n.d.)
Charles Francis Press, New York -- ink blotter with ad printed on recto (n.d.)
Bakewell & Marthens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- ad card (n.d.)
Duplex Color Disc Company, Chicago -- post card advertisement (n.d.)
A.B.Dick Company, Chicago -- 8 leaves from calendars produced by A.B. Dick on company's product, the "Edison Mimeograph" machine (Dec. 1900 -- Feb. 1902) (incomplete)
The Henry 0. Shepard Company, Inc., Chicago -- ad card (n.d.)
Knight & Leonard Printers, Chicago -- ad card (n.d.)
DeFollett & Son, Brooklyn, New York -- ad card for job printers (n.d.)
Harpel & Skillman (Franklin Works, General Printing), Cincinnati, Ohio -- ad card (n.d.)
O.H.Harpel, Cincinnati -- business card from member of above firm identified as "typographic designer and writer" (n.d.)
Co-operative Printing Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota -- ad card (n.d.)
Ragsdale & Chassell, LeMars, Iowa -- ad card for printing and binding firm, a manufacturer of blank books (n.d.)
Stevenson, Foster & Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- business card from electrotyping, printing and stationery firm (n.d.)
Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., Chicago -- business card from C.W. McCluer, salesman for printing and stationers firm (n.d.)
Fleet-McGinley, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland -- sample of color printing by firm on large fold-out sheet (n.d.)
J.S. Thompson & Co., Chicago, Illinois -- 20th annual ad circular for printing firm (1873)
The Artistic Stationery Company, London -- ad for Christmas cards printed by company with sample in envelope (ad on envelope) (n.d.)
Harpel & Skillman, Franklin Steam Printing Works, Cincinnati, Ohio -- "A Franklin Memento" (1877), 2 copies
(under name Oscar H. Harpel) ad sheet for specimen catalog "Typographic Display" (n.d.)
Earhart & Richardson, Cincinnati, Ohio -- J.F. Earhart's "The Color Printer" (n.d.), booklet
Merchants Publishing Company, Chicago -- priced ad card for printing of photos (n.d.)
Printers and Publishers -- II
The Aldine Publishing Company, New York -- ad card for wood-cut printing (n.d.)
George E. Cockerton & Son, Danville, Illinois -- ad folder from job-printing firm (n.d.)
Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York -- sheet advertising Prelude to Man by Chard Powers Smith with list of subscribers (n.d.)
Foster and Company, Chicago -- booklet of testimonials in support of firm for Public Printer (c.1897)
Avery L. Rand, Boston, Massachusetts -- ad sheet for 3 different "News-boys' New Year Greetings" booklets (1899)
Rich & Murphy, Vinton, Iowa -- ad card for job printing done at office of Semi-Weekly Eagle newspaper (1885)
George T. Reddick, Iowa City, Iowa -- ad folder and business card from printer & stationer (1897)
Republican Company (publisher Daily & Weekly Republican newspaper), Iowa City, Iowa -- ad folder/greeting card and price list for job printing and paper (n.d.)
The Press, Iowa City, Iowa -- ad sheet for all-languages printing printed while in parade at Iowa City, July 4, 1881
State Journal Company, Springfield, Illinois -- ad folder for job printing from publisher of Illinois State Journal (newspaper) (n.d.)
Charles Austin Bates, New York -- 5 sample ad cards (one dated 1898)
Sac Sun, Sac City, Iowa -- form letter and samples advertising for printers to buy right to use official seal on legal documents in each county (188)
Art Collectors Club, Philadelphia -- priced ad sheet for prints of famous paintings for sale through club (n.d.)
Theo. L. DeVinne & Co., New York -- post card informing recipient of new address of The DeVinne Press (1886)
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York -- announcement of exhibit of recently acquired books from Pope Library, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1895)
M.A. Bancroft., Sioux City, Iowa -- booklet entitled "Run and Twist" on printing techniques (n.d.)
The Economy Advertising Company, (Iowa City, Iowa) -- long ad sheet for job printing captioned "Talks on Printing" (n.d.)
Printers and Publishers: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), Chicago
"An Exhibit of Direct-Color Photo Reproduction and Water -- Color Printing" (1934), brochure
"Deeptord" photo printing process (n.d.), folder
"Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax" showing high quality of R.R. Donnelley's printing of color photographs (n.d.), brochure
"The Last of the Wooden Indians", brochure
Exhibition of works of Rudolph Ruzicka at Lakeside Press Galleries (1934),announcement and invitation
"School Books of Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow" (1935), folder advertising gravure photo reproduction process (n.d.)
"Specimen of a New Technique in Offset Lithography," adv. for the Deeptone Process (n.d.), pamphlet
pamphlet entitled same, adv. same for oil painting reproduction (n.d.)
adv. reproduction of water color painting. (n.d.)
adv. reproduction of etching (n.d.)
adv. reproduction of crayon drawing (n.d.)
"Water Color Printing at the Lakeside Press (n.d.), pamphlet
Exhibitions of fine printing at Chicago World's Fair, 1933 -- 1934, booklet inviting visitors to two exhibitiobs
International Poster Exhibition at Lakeside Press Galleries (1932), folder
"Breakfast with America's Purchasing Agent" (n.d.), folder
14th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (c. 1929), folder announcing publication
Oil painting reproduced by Donnelly Deeptone Process (n.d.), folder
"Realism - Desire - Buying!" adv. color reproduction process for photos (n.d.), pamphlet
"A Comparison" (n.d.), pamphlet advertising Fine Halftone Printing of photos
"Selling Fabrics - the modern way" (c.1936), folder
Announcement that William A. Kittredge is now in charge of design and typography for Lakeside Press (1922) (not in folder), booklet
Rockwell Kent has books printed at Lakeside Press (c.1931), folder
Portrait of John Springer -- electrotype (copper engraving mounted on wood)
Paper -- I
J. E. Linde Paper Co., New York -- "Good Information about Paper for Printers and Buyers of Paper" (n.d.) , 2 copies.
business reply post card (n.d.)
issue of house organ "Paper News" special exposition number [16pp.], (1913)
Calumet Paper Company, Chicago -- ad folder with picture of company's mfg. plant (n.d.)
sample of a Japanese napkin with cover ad sheet (n.d.)
notice of company's change of address (1892)
ad in shape of a halberd noting price cuts in stationery stock (n.d.)
calling card with new company address (c.1892)
"A True Account of It" (1892), pamphlet
ad folder with message printed on hand -- made Dutch paper of 1764 (1890)
"White's Multi-Color Charts..." [73 l.] ( 1891), catalog
Paper -- II
J.W.Butler Paper Co., Chicago -- folder advertising the company's fancy stationery with calendar for 1890 inside
ad folder for commencement folders, souvenir programs, napkins, and letter stationery (1893)
ad folder for "National Bank Bond" paper (n.d.)
notice that company closes at 1 p.m. on Saturday (n.d.}
ad for "Sheepskin Parchment" ledger paper printed on sample 1 99)
card from J.M. Evans, salesman, announcing forthcoming visit (1896)
same printed on a folder (1893)
orange-colored business card (c.1892)
folder telling of forthcoming "Paper Age" (c.1886)
ad sheet for "Mascot" Brand writing paper and new catalog 1892
ad sheet entitled "Cut Cards" (n.d.)
annual announcement for 1894 -- 1895
Whiting Paper Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts & Chicago -- "Our Aim" with samples of ledger paper (n.d.), pamphlet, 2 copies
sample calling card with New Year's wish (1884) in envelope
brochure entitled "Card Courtesy (n.d.) (in envelope)
booklet with same title with light green cover in envelope (1893)
booklet entitled "Taste in Letters" (in envelope) (1896)
ad sheet for new Sample Book of Ruled Headings (n.d.)
booklet entitled "The Evolution of Paper" (1898)
folder with sample of White Ivory Bristol paper for announcements or correspondence (1895)
pamphlet with samples of Whitings Standard Ledger Papers n.d.
Paper -- III
Ticonderoga Pulp & Paper Company, New York City -- "Ticonderoga Special Magazine" printed on sample of magazine stock with photo of stream and train crossing on viaduct (n.d.), 2 copies
same on different weight stock with color painting of "Aloise" on front (n.d.)
same on different stock with headband from nursery company catalog at top (n.d.)
folder printed on special paper designed for offset presses (n.d.), 2 copies
The Seymour Company, New York -- brochure titled "On Cream" (n.d.), 2 coies
brochure of samples entitled "Potomac Covers" (n.d.)
"Cabinet Covers" (n.d.)
"Flora Covers" (n.d.)
"Artillery Covers" (n.d.)
"National Covers" (n.d.)
"White House Covers" (n.d.)
Linenette Kid finish Stock (n.d.), sample booklet
Executive Text Book Papers (n.d.), sample booklet
folder announcing change of address of company with map of Manhattan showing new site (n.d.)
"Everybody's Using It!" (n.d.), sample booklet
Penn Ledger Paper (n.d.), brochure
Paper -- IV
Western Paper Company, Omaha, Nebraska -- brochure warning printers of scarcity of paper in next few months (1900)
Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Philadelphia -- ad folder for commencement stationery (1899)
The Champion Coated Paper Co., Hamilton, Ohio -- booklet on the manufacture of paper at company's plant [30pp.], (n.d.)
"Champion owns the Trees..." (n.d.), folder
Crocker-McElwain Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts -- booklet entitled "The Winners in the One Thousand Dollar Prize Contest for Halftone Printing on Bond Paper" (n.d.)
"The Paper Book", a catalog of papers, issue #28 (1927).
The Chatfield & Woods Co., Cincinnati, Ohio -- ad folder for stationery products (n.d.)
Strathmore Paper Company, Mittineague, Massachusetts -- business reply post card (n.d.)
"When Printers Advertise" (n.d.), booklet
"Alexandra Japan" paper stock (c.1912), booklet
The Paper Mills' Company, Chicago -- catalog of coated paper available (n.d.)
same with translucent cover (n.d.)
The Beckett Paper Company, Hamilton, Ohio -- catalog of samples of Buckeye text papers (n.d.)
Paper -- V
The Advertisers Paper Mills, New York -- "Caslon Flowers: An Appreciation" by W.A.Dwiggins printed on Holyoke Text paper (1913), booklet (in envelope)
Bradner Smith & Co., Chicago -- booklet of Government rules and regulations of interest to printers (1918)
ad card for No. 1 Ledger paper (n.d.)
Holiday greeting card addressed to John Springer (n.d.)
Chicago Paper Co., Chicago -- ad sheet printed on sample of Kenmore deckle edge paper (n.d.)
S.D.Childs & Co., Chicago -- ad sheet for Japanese silk copying paper with sample attached (n.d.)
Crane Brothers, Westfield, Massachusetts -- ad sheet for Crane's "Gold Medal" Linen Ledger paper (n.d.)
Niagara Paper Mills, Lockport, New York -- "The Man Who Found Himself" (n.d.), booklet, 3 copies
The Paper Mills' Company, Chicago -- ad pamphlet for Dill & Collins Company's Canterbury Book paper (n.d.)
Peninsular Paper Co., Ypsilanti, Michigan -- ad fold-out sheet for Neapolitan Cover paper (n.d.)
James White Paper Co., Chicago -- ad sheet printed on sample of Buckeye Text paper (n.d.) (in envelope)
Warringstown book paper (1901), samples catalog
Paper -VI
American Paper Company, Chicago -- ad folder printed on American Book paper (n.d.)
Andrews & Lewerth, Inc., New York -- folder introducing E.P. Archibald, recently-appointed salesman (in large envelope) (n.d.)
Ashcroft Manufacturing Company, New York -- 2 copies of ad booklet for Ashcroft Paper Tester [24pp.], (n.d. )
Bay State Papers (no address, no company name) (n.d.), ad pamphlet in shape and color of a beet
Chicago Newspaper Union, Chicago -- price list booklet for paper, envelopes, cardboard, fancy stationery, etc. [69pp.], (1896)
Chicago Paper Company, Chicago -- pocket-size booklet of tables of economic ways to cut paper with minimum waste (1899)
Davenport Bag and Paper Company, (Davenport, Iowa?) -- ad card (post card) giving day salesman ("The Davenport Paper Man") is expected to call (on slip of paper folded and inserted in breast pocket of figure of man on card) (n.d.)
DeBoise Bresnan Co., New York -- 3 copies of ad brochure for "Electrolator", eliminator of static electricity in paper (n.d.)
Jos. Eichbaum & Company (n.p.) -- 4 ad cards for stationery products (c.1882)
Electrical Testing Laboratories, New York City -- 2 copies of booklet entitled "Testing of Paper" (n.d.)
Hammermill Paper Company, Erie, Pennsylvania -- catalog of samples of Middlesex Covers (paper) (n.d.)
"Different Enough to be Worth While" (n.d.), 2 copies of folder
"Portfolio of Business Stationery" (in envelope) (n.d.)
Hampshire Paper Company, South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts -- booklet advertising 50th anniversary of company (1916)
Parsons Paper Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts -- ad folder giving brief history of company and chief events in U.S. history coinciding with company's existence (c.1928)
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, (n.p.) -- booklet of samples of printing on Westvaco uncoated book papers (c.1925)
Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. -- poster asking the public to save waste paper and rags to help alleviate paper shortage (1916)
Paper -- VII
Parker, Thomas & Tucker Paper Company, Chicago -- 2 copies of folder illustrated with wood engravings (n.d.)
Printing Machinery & Equipment -- I
R. Hoe & Co., New York -- catalog of machinery for making stereotype plates [24pp.] (n.d.), 2 copies
Duplex Printing Press Company, Battle Creek, Michigan -- sheet advertising Duplex. matrix drying table and mechanical compressor steam table (n.d.), 2 copies
Southworth Machine Co., Portland, Maine -- of photo (in envelope) of Beaver Mortising Machine (n.d.), 2 copies
Dexter Manufacturing Company, Des Moines, Iowa -- catalog of Dexter folding machines [32pp.] (1889)
Dexter Folder Company, Fulton, New York -- catalog for Dexter folding machines (1892)
business card (n.d.)
The Printing Machinery Company, Cincinnati, Ohio -- folder advertising Warnock Diagonal Block and Register Hook System and other items (n.d.)
Sterling Aluminum and Cast Iron Flat Top Blocks (n.d.), brochure, 2 copies
Sterling Plate Mortising and Correcting Machine (n.d.), brochure, 2 copies
Sprague Electric Works of General Electric Company, New York -- catalog no. 117 showing Sprague electric products for printing machinery [23pp.] (1912)
"Sprague Electric Equipments for Printing Machinery" [11pp.] (1913), descriptive bulletin, 2 copies
"Sprague Electric Motor Drive for Stereotyping and Electrotyping Machinery" (bulletin no. 241) [31pp.] (1913), catalog
"Full Automatic Push Button Control Systems for the Operation of Newspaper Presses" [7pp.] (1911), pamphlet, 2 copies
M.J. Hughes, New York -- business card of manufacturer of "stereotype outfits and machinery"(n.d.)
Godfrey and McCall, London, England -- pamphlet describing company's electroplating works, reprinted from "The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer", July 7th 1881
Latham Automatic Registering Company, Chicago -- ad folder for Latham Beveller (n.d.)
Latham Machinery Co., Chicago -- brochure describing bookbinding machinery (n.d.)
Economy Baler Co., Ann Arbor, Michigan -- "The Cheapest Experience Is Other People's" [24pp.] (c.1912), booklet, 3 copies
another pamphlet for same (n.d.)
Printing Machinery & Equipment -- II
Duryea Manufacturing Company, New York -- pamphlet advertising "Wooster Belting" (industrial machinery belts for power transfer) (c.1909)
booklets describing same [23pp] (n.d.), 2 copies
Hexagon Tool Company, New York City -- folder and business reply card for Hexagon Saw-Planer (c.1913), 2 copies
Economy Engineering Co., Chicago -- pamphlet advertising tiering machines (forerunner of fork-lift truck) (n.d.)
booklet for same [20pp.] (n.d.)
John Royle & Sons, Paterson, New Jersey -- catalog of beveling and lining-beveling machines [56pp.] (1907)
brochure advertising company's exhibit at National Printing and Advertising Exposition, New York (1913)
catalog for the Royle Router No.l [18pp.] (1913)
brochure for Royle Radial Arm Router [11pp] (1908)
Samuel Bingham's Son, Chicago -- manufacturer of printers' rollers (n.d.), ad cards, 2 copies
folder showing how Bingham's rollers are made (c.1890)
folder showing same (c.1892)
sheet showing same (n.d.)
ad card for rollers (n.d.)
The Harris Automatic Press Company, Niles, Ohio -- ad card for Harris sheet feeder (n.d.)
The Van Bibber Roller Company, Cincinnati, Ohio -- catalog describing company's rollers and composition [32pp.] (1895)
"You Use Rollers Then this is worth reading" (ad for rollers and composition [30pp.] (n.d.), booklet
leaflet signed by Andrew Van Bibber accusing Samuel Bingham's Son of using VanBibber's ad copy for his own ads (captioned "Can You Appreciate a Joke?") (n.d.)
brochure on the Van Bibber Mitering Tool
n.d. ad circular for rollers and composition (n.d.)
Perry Brothers and Humphrey, Manufacturers, Chicago -- ad circular for Perry's Adjustable Feed Guide (c.1880)
The Buckie Printers' Roller Co., Chicago -- ad card enclosed in cloth drawstring bag entitled "Dont let the CAT out of the bag" (n.d.)
Diehl Manufacturing Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey -- ad bulletin for Diehl electric motors for presses (1913)
Logemann Brothers Company, Milwaukee -- ad flyer for baling presses (n.d.), 3 copies
Ashcroft Manufacturing Company, New York -- ad sheet for the Ashcroft Thickness Gauge (n.d.)
The Peerless Trading Company, Inc., Syracuse, New York -- ad circular for paper salvage firm (n.d.)
United Printing Machinery Company, Boston -- brochure advertising the U.P.M. Vacuum Bronzing Machine (n.d.), 2 copies
Niles - Bement - Pond Co., New York -- ad brochure for planers (1911), 2 copies
Zeese - Wilkinson Co., New York -- ad booklet produced by firm of engravers containing ads for printing equipment by different mfrs. [15pp.] (1913), 2 copies
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., New York -- ad folder for the Miller Sawtrimmer for sale by Mergenthaler (n.d.)
Standard Machinery Co., Mystic, Connecticut -- leaflet describing the Best Rod Embosser (n.d.), 2 copies
Hall Paper and Specialties Co., New York -- ad sheet for the "Langro" Sealing Machine (n.d.)
The George P. Clark Company, Windsor Locks, Connecticut -- pamphlet advertising Clark wheels and casters [29pp.] (n.d.)
National Printing Machinery Co., Athol, Massachusetts -- brochure describing the National Independent Rotary crimper, scorer and slitter (n.d.)
George H. Sanborn & Sons, Chicago -- ad card for manufacturer of paper cutting and bookbinding machinery
The W.O. Hickok Manufacturing Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- ad circular for Hickok paper rulers (1895)
Printing Machinery & Equipment -- III
The National Binding Machine Co., New York -- pamphlet advertising a gummed-tape-dispensing machine (n.d.), 2 copies
Hall Paper & Specialties Co., New York City -- ad sheet for tape-moistening machine (for wrapping tape) (n.d.)
Peerless Trading Company, New York -- ad card for wiping cloths (n.d.)
George A. Clapper, Wooster, Ohio -- ad folder for Peerless Ink & Roller cabinet and other products (n.d.)
Duryea Manufacturing Co., New York -- ad pamphlet for "Detertine" roller cleaner (mostly testimonials) (c.1913), 2 copies
The Printing Machinery Company, Cincinnati, Ohio -- descriptive folder for Warnock Diagonal Block and Register Hook System and the Sterling cleaning kit for same (n.d.)
Minnesota Type Foundry Company, St. Paul, Minnesota -- ad folder for the Acme Standard Mailer (machine) (c.1894)
ad sheet inserted in above for the Regan Vapor Electro Engine (n.d.)
The Cleveland Folding Machine Company, (Cleveland, Ohio?) -- ad brochure for folding machine with testimonial (n.d.)
Seybold Machine Company, Dayton, Ohio -- calendar for 1897 featuring machines company mfrs. and sells
F. Wahl & Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- ad card for printers supplies firm (n.d.)
American Steel Chase Company, New York -- priced folder for all-steel job chases (n.d.)
Charles Machris, Detroit, Michigan -- ad sheet from supplier of printer's equipment (n.d.)
James Reilly's Sons' Company, New York City -- booklet of testimonials to work of company, an electrical equipment maintenance firm (c.1913) (in envelope)
The Inland Printer Co., Chicago & New York -- list of books and supplies for printers (in pamphlet form) (1896)
Burkley Printing Company, Omaha -- ad card for supplier of printing machinery and equipment (1898)
Inland Type Foundry, St. Louis -- ad folder for seals (gummed) to be placed on type cases no longer used (samples enclosed) (c.1900)
The Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois -- ad sheet for Hamilton-Boss Lower Case (job case) (n.d.)
Stitching Machines
Golding and Co., Chicago -- ad sheet for the Greenfield Automatic Fastener
Latham Machinery Company, Chicago -- catalog for "Monitor" wire stitching machines (n.d.), 2 copies
The J.L. Morrison Company, Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y. -- ad card for "Perfection" wire stitching machines (n.d.)
folder for same (n.d.), 2 copies
Boston Wire Stitcher Co., East Greenwich, Rhode Island -- 2 copies of folder for wire stitching machines
George Damon & Sons, New York -- ad sheet for National wire stitcher (n.d.), 2 copies
H.L. Roberts & Company, New York -- booklet advertising the Roberts Silk Stitching machine with testimonial letters (c.1911), 3 copies
Latham Machinery Co., Chicago -- brochure for Latham's Monitor wire stitching machines and other of company's products (n.d.)
Paper Cutters
Standard Machinery Company, Mystic, Connecticut -- ad brochure for the Keystone Hand Clamp Cutters (n.d.)
Keystone Automatic and Foot Clamp diitter (n.d.), brochure, 3 copies
Standard Machinery Company, Mystic, Conn. -- "Keystone Hand Lever Paper Cutter" (n.d.), folder, 3 copies
"30-inch Keystone Paper Cutters" (n.d.), folder, 3 copies
Standard Die Cutting Press (n.d.), brochure, 3 copies
The Seybold Machine Company, Dayton, Ohio -- Seybold Twentieth Century Automatic Cutting Machine (n.d.), folder, 2 copies
ad sheet for Seybold Hand Clamp Power Cutting Machine (n.d.)
pamphlet on the "Pony Automatic" cutting machine (n.d.), 2 copies
T.W. & C.B. Sheridan Company, New York -- Sheridan paper cutters, rotary board shears, automatic book trimmers, and knife grinders .24pp. , (n.d. ), catalog, 2 copies
H. Hinze Machinery Company, New York -- Krause 3-sided trimmer (n.d.), ad card, 2 copies
ad card for Krause cheap lever cutter (n.d.)
Golding Manufacturing Co., Franklin, Massachusetts -- ad sheet for Golding Hand Lever Paper Cutter (n.d.)
Boston card cutter and bench shears (n.d), folder, 2 copies
W.O.Hickok Manufacturing Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- "A Cutting Remark" (1894), leaflet
Chandler & Price Co., Cleveland, Ohio -- "Two New Ones", being the Chandler & Price Paper Cutter and Chandler & Price Lead and Rule Cutter (n.d.), booklet
Dexter Folder Company, New York -- booklet with reprints of testimonial letters (c.1913), 2 copies.
George H. Sanborn & Sons, Chicago -- ad card for manufacturer of paper cutters and other printing machinery (n.d.)
ad folder for paper cutting machinery (n.d.)
Oswego Machine Works, Oswego, New York -- ad sheet for Double Shear Cutters (n.d.), 2 copies
ad sheet for "New Oswego Auto" (n.d.), 2 copies.
ad sheet depicting 8 styles and sizes of paper cutters (n.d.)
Loring Coes & Co., Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts -- heavy-paper envelope for machine knives (n.d.)
brochure advertising Coes"Micro-Ground" knives (n.d.), 2 copies
Punching Machines
Charles S. Jonas & Brother, New York -- ad folder for Jonas Automatic Perforator (n.d.)
National Printing Machinery Co., Athol, Massachusetts -- 2 copies of brochure for the National Rotary Perforator (n.d.)
W.O. Hickok Manufacturing Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- ad leaflet for Hickok perforator (1894), leaflet for same, entitled "A Puncher Rounds the Corner" (1894)
The Samuel C. Tatum Company, Cincinnati, Ohio -- brochures for paper perforators, paper punches, and crimping and flexing machine inside folder entitled "Tatum Paper Perforators" (1913)
"Paper Punches for Particular People" (1912), brochure
Southworth Machine Company, Portland, Maine -- folder advertising Portland Multiple Punching Machines (n.d.), 2 copies
sheet with samples of punching by Portland Punching Machines (c.1910), 2 copies
"Portland Multiple Punching Machines" [7pp.] (n.d.), catalog
Hand Trucks
New York Revolving Portable Elevator Co., Jersey City, New Jersey -- ad booklet for "revolvator" tiering machines (1912), 3 copies
George P. Clark Co., Windsor Locks, Connecticut -- "Bulletin J" describing various types of platform trucks (baggage and express) company sells and makes (1913)
"Bulletin M" for "Dry Goods, Dye House, and Laundry Trucks" 1913)
Miller Incline Truck Co., New York -- catalog for the Miller Incline Truck (1913)
Economy Engineering Co., Chicago -- ad sheet reprinted from magazine The Paper Mill advertising tiering machines (1912)
Cowan Truck Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts -- booklet entitled "Specifications Dimensions and Prices of the Cowan Transveyor" (n.d.), 3 copies
4 ad sheets entitled "The Cowan Trucking System" (n.d.)
The Fairbanks Company, New York City -- 3 copies of booklet describing the Atlas Transfer Truck (n.d.)
Numbering Machines
W. O. Hickok Manufacturing Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- brochure on numbering machines, standing presses, lay-boys, and signature presses (c.1894)
A.G. Burton's Son, Chicago -- ad pamphlet for the S.K. White Paging and Numbering Machine c14pp. -- (n.d.)
Latham Machinery Company, Chicago -- "Celebrated Monitor Numbering Machine" prices and specimens (n.d.), brochure, 3 copies
Wetter Numbering Machine Company, Brooklyn, New York -- Wetter Special Numbering Machines for flat bed or rotary presses" [16pp.] (n.d.), catalog
"Standard Wetter Type- High Numbering Machine" (c.1911) (folder #12356), brochure
"Some Facts About the Improved Wetter Numbering Machine" (folder #12834) (n.d.), pamphlet
numbering machines "for printing and numbering at one impression" (n.d.), folder
Joseph Wetter & Co., Brooklyn, New York -- testimonials for Wetter numbering machine (c.1893), pamphlet
Type and Typography -- I
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Chicago, Illinois
"Midget Specimen No. 4" [60pp.] (c.1887), type specimen
empty stamped envelope, sealed, business reply addressed to Barnhart Bros. (n.d.)
"Stationers Text Specimen" (1895), pamphlet
"The Type-Founder" (Spring 1901, Fall 1901) periodical published by Barnhart Bros., 2 issues
"The Big Four" (four kinds of Plymouth type) [c.18pp.] and center-fold (c.1902), booklet, 2 copies
specimen catalog of "Plate Text", for use on invitations, announcements, calling cards, etc. (n.d.)
"Displayed Specimens" of type faces [54pp.] (1894), booklet
Minnesota Type Foundry Co., St. Paul -- subsidiary of Barnhart Bros; form letter and holiday greeting card (c.1893)
"Curtis is now called Plymouth" [8pp.] (c.1900), type catalog
"Ornaments and Borders" (fold-out sheet) (n.d.), catalog
Type and Typography -- II
"Plymouth Type Impressions" -- catalog of Plymouth type faces [28pp.] (c.1902 )
"Displayed Specimens" [65pp.] (n.d.), specimen catalog
"Reduction that does not reduce" (1893), advertisement
"Don't You Do It" (n.d.), ad sheet
"Our New Discount" (n.d.), ad sheet
form letter to Iowa Press soliciting business (1893)
sample Iowa ballot (enclosed with above item) (1893)
"A Few Pointers about Point-Set Type" [16pp.] (n.d.)
"Midget Specimen of New Job Faces" (small booklet) [19pp.] (n.d.)
"A Book of Stillson" (Stillson type faces) [7pp.] (n.d.)
pamphlet describing Mazarin type series (n.d.)
booklet describing the Southey type series (n.d.)
specimen sheet for Rococo type border and Canton series (c.1895)
fold-out sheet with ads for various products of Barnhart Bros. (n.d.), 3 copies
specimen sheet of ornaments (n.d.)
specimen sheet of Mazarin type designs (1895)
printed announcement to trade of discounts allowable on type fonts (1889)
Inland Type Foundry, St. Louis. Card advising printers to tell company if they wish to remain on mailing list or not (i.e., if they intend to be customers) (n.d.)
pamphlet of art ornaments and borders (n.d.), 2 copies
specimen sheet for Saint John series of type (n.d.) copy of letter from Caslon Letter Foundry, London, to Inland Type Foundry re Saint John series and assigning American rights to Caslon Old Black series to Inland (1898)
"Caslon Old Style: The History of a Type" (c.1900), catlog
specimen sheet for Caslon Text Series (n.d.)
ad brochure for Blanchard italic (n.d.)
brochure with Christmas greetings and ad for Caslon Text Series (n.d.)
folded sheet containing novelty toy called a "Kissing Bug" and ad for Standard Line Unit Set Type (n.d.)
brochure for Standard Line type enclosing specimen sheet (n.d.)
pamphlet entitled "Inland Ornaments and Borders" (n.d.)
notice of changes in discounts on type (n.d.)
specimen sheet for Palmer Series of type (n.d.)
booklet of specimens of MacFarland and MacFarland Italic type faces [16pp.] (c.1890's)
business card (n.d.)
booklet of specimens [6pp.] (n.d.)
"The True Point System: What Is It?" by George W. Bateman [8pp.] (1898), reprinted article
testimonials for company's type faces (1897), 3 reprints
ad sheet entitled "Improvements" (n.d.)
folder containing specimen letterheads (c.1899)
"A Few Words on Stereotyping" (n.d.), brochure
ad folder announcing change in discounts as of April 2, 1900
American Type Founders Company, New York City
booklet of specimens of Ronaldson type [14pp] (1901)
booklet of specimens of Caxton Bold Series [8pp] (1901)
booklet of specimens of Rimpled type and new borders [8pp.] (n.d.)
booklet of ads for 20th Century Desk Book of Type and Printing Material
Simplex type setter, and specimens of Camelot and Caxton types (1901)
specimen booklet for Touraine Oldstyle Italic Series (n.d.)
supplement to The American Chap-Book (n.d.) in form of ad sheet showing specimens of chap book borders made by American Type Founders Co. (n.d.)
booklet of specimens of Post Old Style type [33pp.] (c.1900)
"Portfolio of Specimens [of] Type [featuring] Latest Original Designs" (1902 )
brochure with self-contained envelope showing 4 different specimens of type (n.d.)
"Specimens of Original Body-Type Faces" [39pp.] (n.d.), booklet
"Type for Printing Circulars" -- booklet of specimens [16pp.] (n.d.)
"Specimens of Script" [64pp.] (n.d.), specimen booklet
"Practical Exhibit of Desirable Type" produced by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundries, part of American Type Founders Company [70pp.] (c.1893), specimen booklet
"American Type Fashions; Being a Few Specimens of Modern Type" -- booklet of specimens [49pp.] (n.d.)
specimen of Elzevir Gothic on ad card featuring poem "The Stray Dog" (n.d.)
The Specimen [periodical] ( issues 9, 10 and 11, 1894 and 1895) -- issue #9 pub. by Marder, Luse & Co. Foundry (branch of American Type Founders Co.) tissue #9, [12pp.], issue #10, [16pp.] issue #11, [16pp.]
specimen booklet of Jenson italics (n.d.)
Marder, Luse & Co., branch of American Type Founders Co., Chicago ad sheet for figures ("Speaker series") (n.d.)
"Type and Borders" [14pp.] (n.d.) booklet, 2 copies
announcement of formation of Marder Luse & Co. (Omaha Branch) (1893)
"Florets and Borders" -- booklet of specimens [32pp.] (n.d.)
"Illustrated Type Making, with a Descriptive Article upon the American System of Interchangeable Type Bodies" booklet of specimens (1880)
"The DeVinne Series" -- specimen catalog (n.d.)
specimen catalog for Columbus type faces (1894)
specimen sheet for Jenson Heavyface type (n.d.)
MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundry, Chicago (part of American Type Founders) (1893), ad sheet for job faces (type)
clipping from Chicago Herald giving financial statement of American Type Founders Co. (1892)
pamphlet with specimens of Jenson Old-Style type (n.d.)
Boston Type Foundry (part of American Type Founders) (n.d.), specimen sheet for new faces
card advertising rule work done at foundry (n.d.)
Benton., Waldo & Co. Type Founders, Milwaukee (n.d.), business card
catalog entitled "Benton's Self-spacing Type" (part of American Type Founders Co.) [31pp.] (c.1890)
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis -- specimen sheet of new type faces (n.d.)
specimen sheet for Epitaph type faces (n.d.)
business card with name of Schraubstadter & St. John agents? at bottom (n.d.)
American Press Association Series (n.d.), specimen sheet for type named Schoeffer Old Style [l4pp] (c.1897), specimen catalog
Priory Text types (quasi-Gothic, for religious publications) (n.d.), specimen sheet, 2 copies
specimen brochure of silhouettes (n.d.)
specimen brochure of "mural ornaments" (n.d.)
"Facts for Printers" including specimens of foreign-language type faces (Greek, Russian, Hebrew, etc.) (n.d.), pamphlet
specimen brochure featuring "scorchers", figures riding bicycles, for advertising printing (n.d.)
pamphlet of specimens of Florentine Old-Style Series (c.1896)
reprint of articles in The Journalist (New York) stating American Type Founders is a trust, with rebuttal from ATF - sheet circulated by ATF (1892)
folder listing officers, manufacturing foundries, branches, and agents of American Type Founders Co. (n.d.)
price list on type from American Type Founders (1893)
same, different announcement (1893)
Other Type Foundries and Agents -- I
American Standard Type Company, New York City -- specimen book of Wicks type (1902)
Parlor City Type Foundry, Cedar Rapids, Iowa -- catalog no. 4 of specimens of type, border, and ornaments (1909)
Keystone Type Foundry, Philadelphia -- specimen sheet for DeVinne series, other type faces, newspaper and magazine borders, and the Paragon paper cutting machine (n.d.)
DeVinne and Times faces plus line borders (n.d.), specimen sheet
Franklin borders (n.d.), catalog of specimens
specimen catalog of black faces (several series) (n.d.)
DeVinne and Drexel series (n.d.), specimen sheet
United States Type Foundry, New York -- Dec. 1891 issue of the Typographic Messenger, house organ showing specimens of type (1891)
Illinois Type Founding Co., Chicago -- discount list of type prices printed on card (1890)
Dauchy & Co., New York -- specimen sheet of type novelties for sale by this agency (n.d.)
Nelson, Chesman & Co., St. Louis -- catalog of "Florets and Borders" for sale by this agency [32pp.] (n.d.)
H.C.Hansen Type Foundry, New York City -- ad sheet with picture of new plant (n.d.)
J.F. Earhart, Columbus, Ohio -- ad folder for Chaostype printing plates with sample specimens (n.d.)
Miller & Richard Type Foundry, San Francisco, California -- 2 business cards advertising Scotch type foundry, American office at above address (n.d.)
form letter addressed to Iowa City Press soliciting business for new type for the newspaper (1878)
The Daily Iowa Capital, Des Moines, Iowa -- booklet entitled "Some Remarks conn Beautiful Type Faces and Borders" showing specimens available at the newspaper's plant for job printing (n.d.)
Golding & Company, Chicago -- ad flier for lead and slug molds (c.1884)
Universal Type-Making Machine Co., Chicago -- pamphlet advertising machine that will re-cast old type (n.d.)
H.C.Hansen Type Foundry, New York City -- advertisement admonishing printers to "make our store your headquarters" while visiting the "National Printing, Publishing, Advertising, and Allied Trades Exposition at the New Grand Central Palace" (1913), 4 copies
small specimen card which states: "These Words are Printed by the use of Separate Wooden Types, Movable Types, 1430 Coster 1878"
The Conner Type Foundry, New York -- successor to the United States Type Foundry (?) -- specimen sheet of Roman (newspaper) types made for the American Press Association (n.d.)
Union Type Foundry, Chicago -- sheet advertising copper amalgam type giving details on discounts (n.d.)
"discount sheet for actual cash" (giving details on discounts n.d.)
Eastern Brass & Wood Type Co., Woodhaven, New York City -- ad card for wood and brass type ornaments and borders (n.d.)
Donnelley, Cassette & Loyd, Chicago -- "specimen sheet of ornaments no.1" (1879)
H. C. Hansen Type Foundry, Boston & New York -- specimen catalog for The Masterman Roman typeface (c.1910's)
Other Type Foundries and Agents -- II
Northwest Type Foundry, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- circular ad for borders
ad folder for type faces (n.d.)
Keystone Type Foundry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- specimen folder of Caslon Italic types (n.d.)
Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York -- catalog of Louis XV series of matrix, borders, headings and initials (1920)
Royal Electrotype Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- ad brochure for their new 2000 -- ton "Hercules" press mfd. by F. Wesel Co., New York (in envelope) (n.d.)
Golding & Co., Boston, Massachusetts -- type specimen bulletin (house organ special number) with ads for other printing equipment (1894)
ink blotter with ad for Standard Line Type (n.p., n.d.) (company not identified)
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis, Missouri -- ad sheet for electrotype portraits of Democrat and Republican candidates for President and Vice-President (1892)
Manz & Company, Chicago -- ad sheet from supplier of portraits, engraved and electrotyped, of presidential candidates (c.1896)
form letter stating company has left the combine formed 2 1/2 years earlier to fix prices and is now free to set own prices and discounts (1889)
Typesetting Equipment -- I
Lanston Monotype Machine Co., Philadelphia -- "The Monotype in the Newspaper Field" (n.d.), pamphlet, 2 copies.
Thorne Type-Setting Machine Company, New York -- catalog of machines and type [43pp.] (c .1896 )
The Unitype Company, Manchester, Connecticut, Chicago and New York catalog for the Simplex One-Man Type Setter and type faces (n.d.)
Iowa State Press, Iowa City, Iowa -- specimen sheet of work done on Lanston Monotype Machine (1900)
West Publishing Company, St. Paul -- ad in form of invitation to visit plant and see 11 Thorne type setting machines in operation there (1891)
International Typesetting Machine Company, Chicago -- ad in house organ format entitled "Intertypit" -- ad. for Intertype machines (1915)
Lanston Monotype Machine Company, Philadelphia -- v.l no. 1 of "Monotype", house organ for company (1913), 2 copies
Hot Metal Composition Justifier Co., Hammond, Indiana -- ad sheet for Hot Metal Composition Justifier machine (n.d.), 2 copies
Wood & Nathan Company, Agents, New York -- booklet entitled "The Monotype" advertising that machine (n.d.), 2 copies
Empire Type-Setting Machine Company, New York -- ad brochure for Empire Type-Setting Machine (c.1897)
Lanston Monotype Machine Co., Philadelphia -- pamphlet "Does It Pay to Cast Your Own Type?" (1913), 2 copies
leaflet entitled "As the Old Lady said when she saw the Ocean" (n.d.)
large fold-out ad for Monotype Giant (Type) Caster (n.d.)
"The Electro-Matrix. Machine", manufacturer not given (n.d., n.p.), ad sheet
The Rogers Typograph Company, Cleveland, Ohio -- reprint of testimonial letter to company from The World newspaper, New York (1890), with printed cover letter company letterhead