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Printing and lithographic establishment: Hunckle & Son

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Description: A color lithographed trade card promoting Hunckel & Son's services within the printing industry through text and illustrated vignettes. Text on top of the image reads "Printing and Lithographic Establishment," and the central image includes two allegorical figures shaking hands above a banner that reads "Hunckel & Son" in gold, with George and Otto Hunckel's signatures below. The center of the card is embossed with the United States seal, and the card is bordered with putti representing the branches of art and science such as lithography, engraving, typography, and photography. The bottom of the card reads "The blessings of the graphic sciences over all the nations of the world," and includes stylistic representations of men in different cultural attire. The border edges of the card are printed in gold.
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Production date: approximately 1860.
Call number: priPEF 7
Creator: Hunckel & Son ((1856-1864))

Hampshire Job Printing Establishment

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A relief print advertising the services of the Hampshire Job Printing Establishment in Northampton, Massachusetts. The showcard is printed by letterpress technique on white-coated cardstock in blue-and-red ink. Item features multiple decorative typefaces and ornamental borders. Text advertises printing services for, "books, pamphlets, catalogues, blanks, bill-heads, shop-bills," and various card formats. The top border is labeled, "Horizontal Card Press Office" and text throughout describes use of a new horizontal card press that can create up to 1000 impressions an hour. Possibly printed by the Hampshire Gazette based on text stating that, "Large additions having been made to the Jobbing material in this establishment, the Printer of the Gazette is now prepared to execute all orders in that department..." The establishment's location is also described as, "Three doors West of Warner's Coffee House," and before moving in 1853, the Gazette Office was located near the Lyman Block and Oliver Warner House.

priPEF 45

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Horse Shoe Bar : Bill & Tillie

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A business card advertising the Horse Shoe Bar in Texas City, Texas on recto, and an advertisement for a laundress seeking work on verso. Text on recto reads, "'The largest bar in town,' Horse Shoe Bar: Bill & Tillie. No Filipinos or colored served. Taxi service day or night. Phone 173, Texas City, Texas." Recto also includes the emblem for the Galveston Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label in lower center. Text on verso reads, "August I. Mrs. Marshall, Laundress at home, 7 p.m. Work good. First class. Satisfaction guaranteed. Price $2.00."

priPEF 44

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Vue de San Francisco en 1860 : View of San Francisco in 1860

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A color-tinted lithograph with hand-colored details depicting a bird's-eye-view of San Francisco's Chinatown during its early development. The image was originally created by artist Louis LeBreton, printed by lithographer Francois Gosselin, and published by Henry Payot. The image depicts Chinese townspeople on the hilly outskirts of the town, shown wearing conical hats, loose clothing, and some smoking pipes. Other townspeople are depicted in traditional Victorian attire, shown walking down a central road leading to San Francisco Bay and Yerba Buena Island. Scenery includes sailboats, clouds, palm trees, rocky hills, and building structures. The lower left corner of the image includes a signature that reads "LeBreton." On the left side of the print, text below the image reads "Published by Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street," and below the right of the image, text reads "Paris, Gosselin, Editeur, Imp. 71, r. St. Jacques." The title is printed in both English and French.

priPEF 2

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Haight is love : summer is a love in-here

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A color offset lithograph announcing the Summer of Love movement held in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. In psychedelic font, the text reads, "Haight is love: summer is a love-in here." Most of the text is in a bold green color set against a red-and-orange background. The word "love" is overlaid in black-and-white with details from Jost Amman's woodcut, "Quibus eo sane, Ordine Doctrina..." (1572). The word "is" in the title is centered by mirroring purple-and-green decorative images of a nude man and woman in an embrace. The bottom left of the print includes the date of copyright and reads, "UFO Posters. 1608 Haight Street. San Francisco, Calif." Bottom right includes an image of the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union (LPIU) emblem and text that reads "Printed by Double-H Press." Signed by the artist, John Dolley [Dulley?] on the right of the image.

priPEF 40

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Exposition Internationale d'Électricité, Marseille : Avril-Octobre 1908, 1908

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An announcement poster for the International Electricity Exposition taking place in Marseille, France in 1908. The print features an allegorical image of a woman or "Electricity Fairy" flying over and illuminating the Marseille exposition. Sparks of electricity are shown as a halo centering her as she looks down onto the exposition site, with rays of light emanating from her hands onto the illuminated structures below. The figure is nude and painted in varying shades of green, with hair flowing against a dark blue and red sky. Text towards the lower right of the figure reads, "Exposition Internationale d'Electricite Marseille, Avril-Octobre 1908." Below the title, the print is signed by the artist, "D. Dellepiane" on the bottom right. The print is signed by the printer twice, with one in the left margin reading, "Imp. Moullot Fils Ainé, Marseille," and again in the top left with a decorative printer's mark of an image of a printing press wheel and text reading "Affiches Moullot Marseille - Paris."

priPEF 50

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Welbeck. Paragon un Barbe

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A hand-colored engraving depicting a view of Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire, the private home of William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, from 1617 to 1676. The central image in the foreground depicts an African man holding the reins of a brown Barbary horse in front of the main façade and entryway of Welbeck Abbey. The background imagery includes branches, stones, trees, and flying birds. Text on top of the print reads, "Welbeck." Text on the bottom of the print reads, "Paragon un Barbe." To the right of the image, decorative text in French reads, "La Maison de Welbeck appartenant a Monseigneur le Marquis de Newcastle, le quel est dans la Province de Nottingham." Signed on lower right corner, by artist, "Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit," and by engraver, "Petr. van Lisebelten sculpsit." Print was originally published as the sixth plate of Cavendish's "A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses..." (either 1658 print or later editions), and is the source of the approximate date.

priPEF 94

Printing and lithographic establishment: Hunckle & Son

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