Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
1808
GUSN-2255
Small rectangular format printed with text, advertising a profile-cutting business; two profiles of a man (right) and a woman (left) adorn the top two corners of the sheet.
advertisements
posters
prints (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
portraits
Unidentified Paper
Transfer Printed
Portrait
POSTER
1) Text of document: ""CORRECT / Profile Likenesses, / Taken at hr. from / 8 o'clock in the morning until 9 in the evening"" etc. (see document). 2) Jelly label with typewritten information, top center of backing: ""Moses Chapman. Essex Co., / early 19th cent. Adv. in / ""Salem Gazette"", 1808. Used / a profile machine.""
Chapman, Moses, 1783-1821
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6.313 x 7.688 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.268
Massachusetts (United States)
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
