Box 8

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"The Celebrated Vacheron & Constantin Watch is made by machine, highly finished and adjusted by the best known workmen of Switzerland…." Engraved by John A. Lowell, Boston.

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"Formerly Boardman's Stables"

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"Hats & Caps." Three different designs with flowers, birds, butterfly.

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"Hats & Caps." Two esigns featuring a boy with a drum and a monkey and a couple in eighteenth-century dress.

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains different forms of printed paper items produced by Hartford businesses beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the present. Many types of ephemera, such as trade cards and catalogs, functioned solely as advertising. Others, such as bookmarks, calendars, and blank books, might serve a useful purpose as well as providing advertising for a firm. Much of the ephemera, especially the earliest items, were printed locally by Hartford’s many printing firms. Later items...

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"Marie M. Lasher, Group Sales, Children's Theater Co-ordinator

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"Let the Ever Ready Charge Account be your Santa Claus"

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"Call and see what a dollar will buy." Card with photograph: "Learning A.B.C."

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"Clocks put in order in any part of the City."

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Three designs featuring dogs, cats, and flowers.