Pluck Art Printery Receipt, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:41:20 +0000

"I Print to Please. Pluck Art Printery, D. B. Landis, 257 N. Queen St., Lancaster, Pa, ________ 189__. Received of ________. ________Dollars. $____. ________."

For a close-up of the left-hand portion of this receipt, see I Print to Please, D. B. Landis, Pluck Art Printery, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s (thumbnail image below).

I Print to Please, D. B. Landis, Pluck Art Printery, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:41:22 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

"I Print to Please. Pluck Art Printery, D. B. Landis, 257 N. Queen St."

Detail from Pluck Art Printery Receipt, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s (see thumbnail image below).

Pluck Art Printery, also known at different times throughout its existence as Pluck Print, Pluck Electric Print, and Landis Art Press, was a letterpress print shop run by David Bachman Landis (1862-1940) in Lancaster, Pa.

On this 1890s receipt, Landis highlighted his slogan, "I Print to Please," with an illustration of a composing stick and mallet, two essential tools for setting type by hand.

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Pluck Art Printery Receipt, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s

I Print to Please, D. B. Landis, Pluck Art Printery, Lancaster, Pa., 1890s