Box 8

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Postcard with portrait of Thomas Edison: "Why have your letters written twice--in shorthand and on the typewriter? Save this time and money; write them once--in typewriting--with the Edison Dictating Machine."

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"a unique dining experience"

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Two designs featuring a boy with a drum and a monkey

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Two designs featuring yachts in Boston Harbor

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Floral design

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"The Celebrated Vacheron & Constantin Watch is made by machine, highly finished and adjusted by the best known workmen of Switzerland…." Engraved by John A. Lowell, Boston.

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"Formerly Boardman's Stables"

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"Hats & Caps." Three different designs with flowers, birds, butterfly.

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"Hats & Caps." Two esigns featuring a boy with a drum and a monkey and a couple in eighteenth-century dress.

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains different forms of printed paper items produced by Hartford businesses beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the present. Many types of ephemera, such as trade cards and catalogs, functioned solely as advertising. Others, such as bookmarks, calendars, and blank books, might serve a useful purpose as well as providing advertising for a firm. Much of the ephemera, especially the earliest items, were printed locally by Hartford’s many printing firms. Later items...