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Prof. George Roch, Music Teacher and Tuner of Organs and Pianos, Lebanon, Pa., 1885

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:01:35 +0000

This is a bright orange nineteenth-century business card for George Roch (1852-1913). A number of directories list him as a music teacher or musician, usually with an address in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, rather than Lebanon. John H. Long (1850-1925) was a carpenter and organ manufacturer in Lebanon.

Prof. Geo. Roch,

Music Teacher and Tuner of Organs and Pianos,
at J. H. Long's Organ Factory,
Lebanon, Pa.

174 Instruments tuned between February 1, 1885, and September 7, 1885.

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

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

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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.

A Happy New Year from John E. Cranfield, Letter Carrier, 1889

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:17:02 +0000

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A New Year card from John E. Cranfield (d. 1894?), who was a letter carrier in Albany, New York.

Compare this card with A Happy New Year, Will D. Reiber, Letter Carrier.

?A Happy New Year? 1889

John E. Cranfield, Route No. 14.

Ye Penny Post, 1839. Ye Letter Carrier, 1889.

Horatio J. Brinkman

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 02:49:06 +0000

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"May joy be around you."

A Victorian-era calling card with a winter theme for Christmas.

See also a card for Harry Sprenkil that uses the same illustration.

Acquaintance Card Confidential

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 18 May 2020 02:29:02 +0000

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An acquaintance card dating to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

If you look closely, you'll see that the printer mistakenly used a "u" instead of an "n" to spell "and." I had to read through the text a couple of times before I even noticed the error.

Confidential

Miss: If you desire to form my acquaintance, please state time and place on blank space.

Henry Swartz, Dealer in Dry Goods, York, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 18 May 2020 02:31:02 +0000

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A late nineteenth-century business card for Henry Swartz's dry goods store in York, Pennsylvania.

The typeface used for "Henry Swartz" is Antique Extended. Thanks go to Florian Hardwig for the identification.

Henry Swartz,

Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, Queensware, &c., &c., &c.
No. 229 South George Street, York, Pa.

Experience in the business and strict attention enables him to render general satisfaction.

Country produce bought and sold.

Dry Goods. Gazette, Pr.

Orange Lawn-Boy, April 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:54:02 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of 1970s (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).

An orange Lawn-Boy mower in a snapshot dated April 1971.

H. E. Grothe—Calling Card with Photograph

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:14:02 +0000

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A calling card for "H. E. Grothe" with attached photo. I purchased this from a dealer in Seattle, Washington, who obtained it along with other calling cards (without photographs) from an estate sale in Idaho.

For other photo calling cards, see:
-- Warren Perkins
-- Miss Ellen Sophia Auchey
-- Irwin G. Waggener

Henry Weill, Dealer in Horses, Lancaster, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 04:29:02 +0000

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Henry Weill (1860-1929) was a well-known horse dealer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This business card was printed for him by David Bachman Landis.

For similar cards by Landis that feature text printed over a background illustration, see:

-- Chas. O. Ursprung, Horse Collar Manufacturer, Lancaster, Pa.
-- W. R. Cheney, Carriage Builder, Lancaster, Pa.
-- William C. Myers, Practical Artesian Well Contractor, Salunga, Pa.

Henry Weill,

Dealer in Driving, Heavy Draft, and Fine Coach and Saddle Horses.

Sale and Exchange Stables, 200 to 216 West Orange St., Lancaster, Pa.

Presented by ________

Acclimated and western horses always on hand.

Telephone connection.

John Matthes, American House, Lebanon, Pa., ca. 1864

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 05:06:02 +0000

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John Matthes (1834-1894) was the proprietor of American House, a hotel in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It's likely that this business card dates to around 1864, when Matthes ran a newspaper ad for American House. A later advertisement indicates that he was operating a wine and liquor store by 1873 (see below for the ads).

American House

Lebanon, Pa.

Market Street, half-square south of Market House and one and a half squares from Court House.

John Matthes, prop'r.

The table is supplied with the best of edibles. The bar with the choicest of liquors.

Extensive new stabling attached to the house.

Handwritten name and year on the other side of the card: "Allen Longenecker, 1864."

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Advertisement printed in the Lebanon Advertiser (Lebanon, Pa.), July 20, 1864, p. 4:

AMERICAN HOUSE,
Market Street, Lebanon,

JOHN MATTHES,
Proprietor.

The proprietor of this old established and popular HOTEL would respectfully inform the public that it will be conducted at all times to the comfort and convenience of its guests. It has been thoroughly refitted and renovated, and no pains will be spared to make the Table and the Bar, at all times, equal to any in the county.

The STABLING and Yard are superior too, and more extensive, than any other in Lebanon. A new SHED is also in the course of erection, which will be completed in a short time. The patronage of the Farmers and the Traveling public generally is respectfully solicited.

PLACE--West side of Market street, and half a square south from the Market House.

JOHN MATTHES.

Lebanon, April 6, 1864.

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Advertisement in the Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pa.), Jan. 9, 1873, p. 4:

"John Matthes' Wholesale and Retail Wine & Liquor Store, No. 33 North 8th Street, Lebanon, Pa."

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.

J. M. Trout, Fire Sand Quarries, Landisville, Pennsylvania, ca. 1890s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 03:56:02 +0000

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J. M. Trout

Owner and operator of fire sand quarries. Also loam beds. Landisville, Penna.

G. H. Thomas, western sales agt., Latrobe, Penna.

Pluck Print.

David Bachman Landis, who designed and printed this business card, wrote about J. M. (Jacob M.) Trout (1858-1935) and his father, Jacob S. Trout, in "Mineral Deposits and Works of the Hempfields," an artilce that appeared in the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 8, no. 8 (June 3, 1904), p. 247:

" . . . Jacob S. Trout discovered a valuable bed of silica or 'fire' sand, in 1870. Experiments with this sand demonstrated its superior value in the construction of furnaces and the manufacture of steel and iron. Mr. Trout shortly after opened a large trade for his sand, and regularly shipped from Landisville station many carloads of it to the great works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steelton, and other steel and iron works in Central Pennsylvania. . . . Since the death of Jacob S. Trout, in the year 1893, his son, J. M. Trout (who resides in the village of Landisville at the present time) has taken up the silica sand business and has been shipping thousands of tons to different iron workers, as far West as Chicago, Ill., and East to Massachusetts."

Compare the wiry borders in the design of this card with those used in the return address on an envelope for Charles S. Frantz, Graduate Ophthalmic Optician, Watchmaker, and Jeweler, Lancaster, Pa.

John B. Martin, Bicycle Trick Rider, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1903

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 04:40:02 +0000

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The Lancaster City Directory for 1903 listed John B. Martin (1875-1906) as a bicycle repairer and gave his address as 421 N. Prince Street, so it seems likely that this business card with the same information dates to about the same time.

I haven't uncovered any information regarding Martin's career as a trick rider, nor have I found any reference to the athletic grounds and banked bicycle track that he operated on Prince Street.

Martin died on March 19, 1906. He was only 30 years old and left behind three young daughters.

David Bachman Landis of Pluck Art Printery printed Martin's business card.

J. B. Martin, Wheels to Hire

Martin the Trick Rider.

First-Class Bicycle Repairing. Athletic Grounds in the Rear.

Come and see the new banked Bicycle Track.

421 N. Prince St., Lancaster, Pa.

Half square north of the P.R.R. freight depot.

Slaymaker, Barry and Company, Lancaster, Pa., ca. 1890s

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 04:57:02 +0000

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A business card for Slaymaker, Barry and Company (later Slaymaker Lock Company). Printed by D. B. Landis of Pluck Print, probably sometime in the 1890s.

Slaymaker, Barry & Co.

Manufacturers of Shelf Hardware

Self Locking Scandinavian Pad-Locks

Lancaster, Pa.

John J. Kane

J. W. Benneman, Manufacturer of Our Principal Cigars, Millersville, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 04:43:22 +0000

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"J. W. Benneman, manufacturer of Our Principal 5 cent cigars, Millersville, Pa."

A business card printed by D. B, Landis, Pluck Print, Lancaster, Pa.

Crescent Electric Company, Electric Motors and Fans, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1895

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 04:43:30 +0000

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The business card for James D. Brinser, who was the superintendent of the Crescent Electric Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The card was printed by D. B, Landis, Pluck Print, Lancaster, Pa.

I relied on listings and ads in various publications for the approximate date of 1895. The Annual Report of the Factory Inspector for Pennsylvania in the year 1894, for instance, gives the location of the Crescent Electric Company as 117 East Chestnut in Lancaster, as printed on the card. In 1896, however, Brinser assigned an Electric-Motor Fan patent to the Marietta Manufacturing Company in Marietta, Pa., which suggests that fans were no longer manufactured in Lancaster by that time. By 1898, the ads for Crescent Electric Fans indicated that the Marietta Manufacturing Company made them.

The Crescent Electric Co.

Manufacturers of Electric Motors and Fans

111 to 117 East Chestnut Street, Lancaster, Pa.

Electrical and general machine repairing.
Armature and magnet winding a specialty.
New and second-hand motors in stock.

Prompt attention. Obliging service. Reasonable prices.

James Brinser, superintendent.

Telephone.

Hipple Bros. & Co., Inc., Leaf Tobacco, Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:40:08 +0000

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For other tobacco dealer cards, see S. N. Mumma and Co., Packers of and Dealers in Leaf Tobacco, Landisville, Pa., and Benj. H. Brubaker, Dealer and Packer of Pennsylvania Seed-Leaf Tobacco, East Petersburg, Pa.

Hipple Bros. & Co., Inc.

Leaf Tobacco

Main Office, 151 N. Third St., Philadelphia

Packing Warehouse, Cor. Duke & Chestnut Sts., Lancaster, Pa.

A. H. Herr, Mill Creek Dairy, Lancaster, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:18:12 +0000

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A late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century business card printed by David Bachman Landis, who operated Pluck Art Printery, which was later known as Landis Art Print.

I haven't uncovered any reference to a "Mill Creek Dairy," but it's possible that "A. H. Herr" was Aaron H. Herr (1880-1940), a farmer who lived in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A. H. Herr, Mill Creek Dairy.

Pure milk and cream.

Lancaster P.O., Pa.

W. B. Probasco and James P. Lott, Burch House, Bloomington, Illinois, ca. 1869

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:18:08 +0000

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A business card for William B. Probasco and James P. Lott, who were the proprietors of the Burch House hotel in Bloomington, Illinois, for a number of years in the 1860s. According to various sources (see below), Probasco purchased the hotel in 1866, but Lott left Bloomington and moved to Chicago in 1870, so their partnership in running the hotel lasted less than five years.

-- Burch House newspaper ad, 1869. An advertisment that ran in the Bloomington Weekly Leader, April 15, 1869, p. 7, provided the same information that's printed on the card.

-- James P. Lott moved to Chicago in 1870. An entry about "James P. Lott" in the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (1905), vol. 2, Cook County edition, p. 939, states, "In January 1861, he came with his father to Bloomington, Ill., where he at first engaged in the grocery business, and afterward conducted a hotel. Coming to Chicago in 1870, he worked for his father's firm."

-- William B. Probasco bought the Burch House in 1866 and ran the hotel until 1871. Rochelle Gridley wrote about "The Probasco Family" on her 100 Years Ago in the Pantagraph blog, July 14, 2017, observing that William B. Probasco bought "the Burch Hotel in 1866 and ran that business until 1871, when he went into the grain business."

-- William B. Probasco was in the business until 1871. A profile of "W. B. Probasco" in The History of McLean County, Illinois (1879), p. 811, confirms that "he was engaged in the hotel business in Bloomington until 1871."

Burch House,

Cor. Front and Madison Sts., Bloomington, Illinois.

Probasco & Lott, proprietors.

Transient board, $2.00 per day. General stage office.

Omnibus leaves the house. Connecting with all trains.

W. B. Probasco. Jas. P. Lott.

A. W. Davis, Manufacturer of Carriages, Wagons, and Sleighs, Syracuse, N.Y.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:18:10 +0000

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"A. W. Davis, manufacturer of carriages, wagons, and sleighs. No. 1523 North Salina Street, Syracuse, N.Y."