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A business card for "T. P. Lint,"* an advertisement for his penman services, and a demonstration of his lettering and flourishing skills.
*Coincidentally, this name sounds to modern ears like a term for the fluffy bits left over from a roll of toilet paper. 8-)
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"W. L. Rowland, plain and ornamental card and job printer, cards, letter-heads, circulars &c. Bill-heads a specialty. 4101 Pine St., West Philadelphia, Pa. Over."
For the back of this business card, see Neatness, Promptness, Cheapness.
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This appears to be an Octavo Novelty job printing press. See Elizabeth M. Harris, Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America, p. 190.
For the front of card, see W. L. Rowland, Plain and Ornamental Card and Job Printer.
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"W. E. Wheeler, wood engraver, photographer, Room 46, 15 School Street, Boston, tel. main 3712. Half-tones, line work, and electrotypes."
The 1921 edition of the Boston Register and Business Directory listed W. E. Wheelers' address as room 46 of the Hunnewell Building,15 School Street, which was located in the block between 285 Washington Street and 64 Temont Street. The Hunnewell Building was apparently owned by the Boston Post newspaper in 1921 but today it's home to the Jewish Advocate newspaper and a RadioShack store.
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