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Advertisement for The Heliotype Printing Co., 211 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1886

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

Transparencies: Library and Archives

GUSN

GUSN-195275

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Description

This advertisement for the Heliotype Printing Company, located at 211 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, appeared in Art Gems in the trade periodical, "The American Architect". Established in 1872 and reorganized in 1885, the firm describes itself as "artistic printers by the best photogelatine and photolithographic processes: designers and general lithographers, trade catalogs, and all kinds of advertising matter, a specialty." The advertisment is designed in the Craftsman style. The initials J. E. H. appear in the lower left-hand corner.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
printing (process)
printers (people)
Craftsman (style)
advertisements

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000409
AccessID 609
Other identifier HNEDID-000409

Physical Description

1 advertisement

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.094.01.01.018

Date Notes

1886

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Heliotype Printing Co. (printer)

Material Type

advertisements

Other People

Ramsay, Donald
Rowlands, Walter
Goddard, Henry

Other Organizations

Brown

Subjects

Tremont Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Transparencies: Library and Archives

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