Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
Evans : card, job and fancy printing, Fourth Street below Chestnut ... / printed by Henry B. Ashmead.
1856
An advertisement for Howell Evans with a view of their commercial building (signed A. Bigot del.; Louderback Hoffman) and a vignette of their Excelsior card press (signed Burkel del).
Collections
Part of
Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
Part of
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- People
-
- Author
- Ashmead, Henry Buckley
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Howell Evans (Firm)
View all metadata for this item
Similar Items in this Collection
Similar Items outside this Collection
Item Summary
An advertisement for Howell Evans with a view of their commercial building (signed A. Bigot del.; Louderback Hoffman) and a vignette of their Excelsior card press (signed Burkel del).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Evans : card, job and fancy printing, Fourth Street below Chestnut ... / printed by Henry B. Ashmead.
- Call Number
- E-East 45/GC074/Box 02/Oversize GA 2024.04126
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc2227n3476
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1856
- Extent
- 1 print : wood engraving and letterpress ; sheet 47.2 x 39.9 cm
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Wood engraving, Letterpress printing
- Printed at top: Printer.
- Printed at bottom center: (59).
- Printed on verso: The West Indies -- Spanish islands.
- A leaf from: Colton's Atlas of America, page 59.
- Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Howell Evans (Firm)
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/08bcdbeb-76cb-4b05-934b-67ba2ea7c7df/manifest