Description: Frances Wharton (Pepper) Scott was the widow of Joseph Alison Scott. She built her cottage, Grand Pré, in Southwest Harbor, Maine, after his death.
Description: Elizabeth S. Peterson is buried, as is her mother, Elizabeth Booth Yard Peterson, in Lot 160, N. pt, Section G, in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Description: A important printer and publisher since 1887 that utilized the albertype process. They first started printing books and then pioneer cards by 1893 going on to become a major publisher of national view-cards. Their postcards were not numbered and their name appears within the stamp box on their early cards. When the divided back postcard was authorized, the Albertype company created a line down the back of their cards with the words Post Cards of Quality and later with The Finest American Made View Post Cards. Many publishers large and small printed cards though the Albertype Co. They were purchased by Art Vue Post Card Company in 1952. Original Owner: Adolph and Herman Wittemann Known for: Fine View Cards printed with good detail. Duration: 1887-1952 Sold to Art Vue Post Card Company in 1952. See: “Publishers,” Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersa1.html [show more]
Description: An early lithographer that made many different types of printed products. They produced a number of view-cards of the San Francisco area. The Disney Company contracted out many of their postcards to them. Crocker became the first company to use offset lithography in the printing of photochromes under the trade name Mirro-Krome. They are now known as Lawson Mardon Post Card with a separate printing division called Mirro Koat Products. From "MetroPostcard List of Postcard Publishers C p2", Accessed online 03/01/2017; http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersc2.html. [show more]
Description: S.L. & Co. – early 20th century postcard publisher (1906-1918), Langdorf printed his postcards in Germany. His logo was an emblem of a winged circle enclosing the letters "SL & Co."
Description: Connections: Suminsby Genealogical Records, Higgins, Hull, Owen, Marshall, Phelps. "History of United States", by Bancroft, George. "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630", by Banks, C. E.
Description: Fourteen generations of Gotts in The United States, beginning with the immigrant ancestor, Charles Gott (b. 1598) from Cambridge, England.
Description: Questions about the directions of the Republican Party in the United States, featuring comments and Photograph of Robert Pyle, NEH resident and former director of the library.
Description: A photocopy of authorization from Sect. of Treasury to acquire or purchase for the United States land to use for Life-Saving Stations, Houses of Refuge & Beacons.