A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper.....
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An appealing and informative group of fifty-two billheads spanning four decades and documenting the extensive river transport of goods sold by a multitude of Ohio and West Virginia companies. These billheads record the activities of several packet shipping companies that operated on Ohio and West Virginia’s waterways (such as the.....
A group of three circulars (and original envelope) issued by a patent medicine company that manufactured a pain killer advertised as a “no quack nostrum,” these examples sent to a minister in Maine. Based in Pittsburgh, Robert Monroe Kennedy invented and patented as early as 1869 the product advertised here.....
A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets, free baggage (up to 200 lbs.), and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on the.....