Box 8

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...

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"Orders taken and delivered in any part of the city."

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"Sissors, Shears, Cuttlery and Lawn Mowers Ground and Repaired. Hand-forging and Tempering Done." Eight designs featuring presidents of the United States.

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"The Silo Man, Representing The B. L. Bragg Co. Springfield, Mass."

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Donna Everett and Helen Whitcher, Proprietors. "Elegant, Unique, Moist Wedding Cakes Creatively Designed with Fresh Flowers"

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L. S. Crittenden and D. F. Southwick, Proprietors

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...

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...

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J. W. Danforth, George Church, William H. Danforth, Proprietors

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Printed by J. H. Bufford's Sons, Boston & New York.