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Product catalogues: Books and printing: Printing and printed matter
GUSN-266405
This piece of ephemera contains harmful imagery and language regarding slavery and enslaved people.
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The text states that Confederate paper money was engraved on Crane's Bank Note paper. The inside illustration is of an enslaved person, auctioned in 1850. The paper mill at Dalton was created by Zenas Crane and his associates. The item verso has a list of companies that distribute Crane's Business Papers.
advertising
business (commercial function)
printing (process)
paper (fiber product)
slavery
paper money
racial discrimination
samples
promotional materials
1 sample : color illustrations ; 11 x 8 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
1925-11-7
EP001.12.005.001.012
11 x 8 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Crane & Co., 7 November 1925.
Dalton (Berkshire county, Massachusetts)
Crane and Company (Publisher)
Clarke, René (Designer)
Rusling Wood, Litho. (Lithographer)
Marchbanks Press (Typographer)
samples
promotional materials
Confederate States of America
Slavery
Enslaved person
Enslaver
Crane & Co.
Item
Product catalogues: Books and printing: Printing and printed matter
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