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Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs probably compiled by a printer associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm Stein & Jones. Contains book and periodical plates and illustrations; sheet music covers; proof prints; collecting cards; trade cards (several glossed); bank notes, checks, billheads, and receipts; certificates; advertising calendars; and chromolithographed labels and scraps. Majority of contents include several plates from Thomas Allom's "China: In a Series of Views,..." (London, 1860), Albert Barnes's "Scenes and Incidents in the Life of the Apostle Paul" (Philadelphia, 1869), John Fleetwood's "The life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (Philadelphia, 1871) and Daniel March's "Our Father's House , or The Unwritten Word" (Philadelphia, 1871); illustrations and plates depicting genre, religious, sentimental, historical, natural history, scientific, and scenic views from children and gift books, and periodicals, including "Leila in England" and "Leila at Home" (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1875-1880), "Peterson's Magazine" (plates engraved by Illman Brothers), "Ladies Companion," "Graham's Magazine," "Odd Fellow's Casket," "Transactions and Proceedings of American Entomological Society" and "Annals Lyceum of Natural History"; and several works printed by Stein & Jones and Cincinnati lithographers Klauprech & Menzel and Ehrgott & Fobriger, including trade cards, labels, tickets, invitations, certificates, receipts, checks, bank notes, sheet music covers, advertisements, and book illustrations.; Bank notes, receipts, checks, and certificates document primarily Philadelphia and New York bank, coal, oil, steel, and real estate businesses, including Bank of Fashion, Belmont Petroleum Refinery, and Union College Bank. Trade cards, tickets, invitations, and labels represent primarily Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York,...
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![[The Waltham Bank five hundred dollar private bank note proof]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/0a973450be0c2fd5a8487422c5b9bf2cafa910b1.png "[The Waltham Bank five hundred dollar private bank note proof]")
![[Proof for bank note vignette showing Afro-American men tapping sap from trees]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/f9cd1bbacafb6e0eac49c1849187235dd7795821.png "[Proof for bank note vignette showing Afro-American men tapping sap from trees]")
![Manufacturers of / The "Keystone" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/fdbc22d85209f212b9a80dcb58e86c2324ee80e7.png "Manufacturers of / The \"Keystone\" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card")
![Manufacturers of / The "Keystone" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/d5097f5a35f052a2bbe7ed70961b686f51f6db3e.png "Manufacturers of / The \"Keystone\" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card")
![Pennsylvania Colonization Society. [membership certificate]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/253e7194082709ce1e3f477529f8b8ff2c4aaed2.png "Pennsylvania Colonization Society. [membership certificate]")
