Contributions of the group Vintage Printed Ephemera

Mondrian-Style Raincoat

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:55:37 +0000

Accessorized with GoGo boots.
From my 1966 scrapbook.

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1966 Fashion

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:03:44 +0000

A page from my “Fashion Scrapbook” - made when I was 11 years old.
I think this page was cut out from the Spiegal catalogue.

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Opening Party Ticket, Fox's Hall, South Worcester, N.Y., December 15, 1887

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:19:57 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A Victorian-era ticket with a unique border and striking typefaces.

Typefaces: Bank-Note Italic Ornamented, 1875 ("Opening Party") , Mystic, 1882 (“Fox's Hall, South Worcester, N.Y.”).

Thanks to Florian Hardwig for identifying the typefaces.

Opening Party at Fox's Hall, South Worcester, N.Y.

Thursday Evening, Dec. 15, 1887
Music by Belcher's Full Band.

Yourself and lady are respectively invited.

Bill $1.50.

J. D. Beard, Manager. E. Fox, Prop'r.

Lugano and Lake Lugano

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:03 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Looking across Lake Lugano to Mont Bre.
My mother and her friend went on holiday to Switzerland and Italy (from England) in 1951.
This is one of quite a few beautifully hand colored postcards that she bought and brought home.

Pic a day: 24/365

Guess

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:08:14 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Hmmmmmmm…… Who am I reminded of?

Bought in Bristol, 2024, "Your Home” shop.

Pic a day: 18/365

Troopship Zeelandia, "Ship That Brought Us Home", First World War

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:54:55 +0000

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These real-photo picture postcards were sold to returning U. S. soldiers as souvenirs. The photographers got pictures of the troopships being used to return the military, and then marked them up with words like "ship that brought us home".

See:

swansongrp.com/collect/wwi/postcards/index.html

Original photographer unknown, probably from 1919.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Zeelandia_(ID-2507)

Ackers, Whitley

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:34:36 +0000

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Letterhead for Ackers, Whitley and Company Limited, Bickershaw Collieries, Leigh, Lancashire. The signature is that of the manager F H Wilson. In 1931 the colliery employed 1,549 underground and 338 on the surface.

Sutton Manor Collieries Limited

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:37:24 +0000

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Sutton Manor Collieries Limited was floated in 1904 to bore for and work coal on the Sutton Manor Estate. Shaft sinking commenced in 1906 with No.1 shaft initially reaching 1824 feet and the No.2 shaft completed to 2342 feet. At the time of this lettter the colliery was working eight different seams. The shafts were later deepened and a further eight seams worked before closure in 1991.

To My Dearest Aunt

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:47:09 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

"From Barbara."
Found photo, Ferrisburgh, Vermont. 2013

Pic a day. 2/365

My goal for Ipernity this year is to try to up my contributions to one a day.
I love being part of the Ipernity community (and have no plans to leave it) but I do miss the large community of vintage photograph fans on other sites, where I was inclined to comment and post more frequently.
I generally post once a week here (and treasure and deeply appreciate my fellow Vintage Photo Theme Park cohorts and fans!) but that amount of posting is not enough to put a dent in my large backlog of all kinds of photos. So I’m hoping to do a daily posting of “stuff” to get working on that, including vintage *and* family pre and post 1979, (the VPTP limits.)
Cheers, all!

Happy New Year!

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:42:08 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Happy New Year, friends.
Best wishes to all for the coming year.
Pic a day. 1/365

My goal for Ipernity this year is to try to up my contributions to one a day.
I love being part of the Ipernity community (and have no plans to leave it) but I do miss the large community of vintage photograph fans on other sites, where I was inclined to comment and post more frequently.
I generally post once a week here (and treasure and deeply appreciate my fellow Vintage Photo Theme Park cohorts and fans!) but that amount of posting is not enough to put a dent in my large backlog of all kinds of photos. So I’m hoping to do a daily posting of “stuff” to get working on that, including vintage *and* family pre and post 1979.
Cheers, all!

Holiday Greetings

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:04:56 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Merry Christmas to all my Christmas celebrating Ipernity friends, and sincere best wishes to everyone who embraces other traditions and beliefs.

This squarish, vintage card was bought in Essex Junction, Vermont in November, 2025.

Richard White & Sons

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:38:18 +0000

tarboat has posted:

The Widnes based firm of Richard White and Sons was well known for its railway and materials handling equipment. A particular speciality was aerial wire ropeways which found a ready market in mines and quarries across Britain.

Swan Lane Collieries Limited

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:12:47 +0000

tarboat has posted:

The pits at Swan Lane and Long Lane, Hindley Green, were sunk c1864.They were purchased by the Swan Lane Brick & Coal Co.c1886 and then Swan Lane Collieries Ltd from 1910. This latter company reopened the Swan Lane colliery after it had closed in 1893. Final closure came in November 1927, a few months after this bill was paid. At the end there were 384 men underground and 107 surface workers.

Wigan Coal and Iron

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:29:49 +0000

tarboat has posted:

The Wigan Coal and Iron Company was formed when collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield owned by John Lancaster were acquired by Lord Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, owner of the Haigh Colliery in 1865. The company owned collieries in Haigh, Aspull, Standish, Westhoughton, Blackrod, Westleigh and St Helens and large furnaces and iron-works near Wigan and the Manton Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

Collieries belonging to the Wigan Coal and Iron Company in 1896 were the Alexandra, Bawkhouse, Bridge, Lindsay and Meadow Pits in Haigh. The largest, the Alexandra Pit employed more than 650 workers and the Lindsay Pits more than 350. The Crawford, Kirkless, Moor and Woodshaw Pits in Aspull employed over 1,000 workers. Eatock Pits in Westhoughton employed 484 underground and 89 surface workers whilst the Hewlett Pits in Hart Common employed 981 underground and 182 on the surface. Ladies Lane Colliery in Hindley employed 282 underground and 40 surface workers. The Westleigh Pits were Priestners which employed 387 underground and 70 on the surface, Snapes, and Sovereign which had 180 underground workers and 68 on the surface. The King Coal Pit at Blackrod was a pumping pit, retained to drain the colliery workings. In Standish the company owned the Broomfield, Giants Hall, Gidlow, John, Langtree, Robin Hill, Swire and Taylor Pits. The largest of these was the Langtree Pit with more than 540 employees.

Wigan Coal and Iron Company was the biggest colliery owner on the Lancashire Coalfield and in the 1920s employed 9,000 workers. The shafts of Parsonage Colliery in Leigh, sunk by the company between 1913 and 1920, were at the time the deepest in Britain.

In 1930, the Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ltd and the Pearson & Knowles Coal & Iron Co. Ltd combined their coal mining operations to establish the Wigan Coal Corporation.

Littlefield and Hosmer, Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Boston, Mass., 1880s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:29:58 +0000

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Littlefield & Hosmer

Dealers in foreign and domestic fruits, butter, eggs, beans, &c.

Oranges, lemons, bananas, and apples a specialty.

Country produce sold on commission.

No. 9 North Market Street, Boston.

W. E. Littlefield, Chas. B. Hosmer.

A book about the Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston (1885), p. 203, provides a history of this business, which operated under the name of Littlefield & Hosmer beginning in 1881:

Littlefield & Hosmer, Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits, No. 9 North Market Street. — The business conducted by this firm was established in 1866, and during the nineteen years of its career it has enjoyed a large measure of success. It was founded under the firm style of Littlefield & Enslin, and it was conducted under this title for fifteen years. On the retirement of Mr. Enslin, however, in 1881, he was succeeded by Mr. Charles R. Hosmer, and the style of the house was then changed to its present one of Littlefield & Hosmer. The firm occupy the basement floor, which is 20x40 feet in dimensions, and this is stocked with very choice selections of foreign and domestic fruits of every description. The firm makes a specialty of oranges, lemons, bananas, and apples, the former of which are shipped to them from the most celebrated producing districts of Jamaica, Central America, Florida, etc., and in these classes of fruits they conduct a good trade. They sell on commission all kinds of fruit, and prompt sales and liberal advances are made if required. All foreign fruits and vegetables are procured direct from the ship at their ultimate points of destination. The house enjoys a large city and suburban trade. The individual members of the firm are Mr. W. E. Littlefield and Mr. Charles B. Hosmer, both of whom were born in Maine, the former in 1837 and the latter in 1840.

S. W. Solenberger, Proprietor of the Guilford Herd of Short-Horn Cattle, Chambersburg, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 02:50:02 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

S. W. Solenberger, the name printed on this nineteenth-century business card, is listed as Solomon Wingert Sollenberger (1838-1906) on Find a Grave (note the extra "l" in the last name).

Solenberger's farm was located in Guilford Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and he used the township's name for his herd of Shorthorn cattle.

S. W. Solenberger

Proprietor of Guilford Herd of Short-Horns.
Breeder of Thorough-bred Red Short-Horn Cattle.

Chambersburg, Franklin County, Penna.

"Red Rose."

[HBT?] L.L.S.Journal
Chicago

E. Oettel, Philadelphia Reliable Fancy Bakery and Confectionery, Lancaster, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:33:02 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

An elaborate business card printed by David Bachman Landis of Pluck Art Printery (later known as Landis Art Print).

The wavy, wiry vertical lines that Landis used to separate the "Special Attention" section on the left from the main "E. Oettel" portion of the card come from a set of "Capital Ornaments" dated 1891 that was available from the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (BB&S) type foundry. Landis also used these separators in a number of other printed pieces. See, for instance, the following examples:

-- Charles S. Frantz, Graduate Ophthalmic Optician, Watchmaker, and Jeweler, Lancaster, Pa.
-- A. H. Herr, Mill Creek Dairy, Lancaster, Pa.
-- J. M. Trout, Fire Sand Quarries, Landisville, Pennsylvania, ca. 1890s

BB&S also sold a set of "Brownies" characters that included the tiny owl in the upper left-hand corner.

Typefaces: Duerer ("Fancy Bakery and Confectionery"), Pynson ("All kinds of Cakes, Pies, Creams, Water Ices, and"), Hansard ("Home Made Bread"), Dante ("No. 506 Manor Street, Lancaster, Pa."). The unidentified typeface used here for "E. Oettel" appears to be the same as the one selected for "J. M. Trout" on the J. M. Trout, Fire Sand Quarries card.

E. Oettel, Philadelphia Reliable Fancy Bakery and Confectionery.

All kinds of Cakes, Pies, Creams, Water Ices, and Home Made Bread.

No. 506 Manor Street, Lancaster, Pa.

Special attention given to wedding and party orders.

Stands at Eastern, Central, and Southern Markets.

W. H. Shoemaker, Sheet Music, Pianos, Organs, Harrisburg, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:01:36 +0000

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W. H. Shoemaker, sheet music, pianos, organs, music books, No. 11 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Ice Cream Ticket, F. W. Fraley, August 19, 1916

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:24:02 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

An ice cream ticket used by Frank W. Fraley, who ran a general store in Catoctin Furnace, Maryland.

For similar tickets, see Ice Cream, Clifford Sutton, 5¢ and Ice Cream, 5 Cents.

Typefaces: Engravers Roman ("Ice Cream Ticket"), Copperplate Gothic ("August 19, 1916," "F. W. Fraley").

Thanks to Florian Hardwig for identifying the typefaces.

10c Ice Cream Ticket
August 19, 1916
F. W. Fraley

Geo. W. Kissinger, Flour, Feed, and Potatoes, Reading, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:18:02 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A small Victorian-era trade card for George W Kissinger (1855-1935), a merchant in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Geo. W. Kissinger,

Flour, Feed & Potatoes,
No. 929 Penn St., Reading, Pa.

Bufford