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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"The Only One Price Clothing Store in Hartford."

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Two different cards, each with a profile portrait of a woman, one signed "Anderson" and one signed "Favart."

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"Watches of all kinds repaired in the best manner and warranted to run well."

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Card in the shape of a keystone advertising Keystone Watch Cases.

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Card in the shape of a keystone advertising Keystone Watch Cases.

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Hotel was located in Niantic, but address on card is "Hartford, Conn.", where there was apparently an office.

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Athena A. Economou, Proprietor

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"Special Photographs for Christmas"

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"Books and Stationery, Toys and Fancy Good, Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Circulating Library, Employment Office…. Collars, Cuffs and Gents Furnishing Goods, and other articles too numerous to mention."