"How to Solve Your Domestic Help Problem", The Boston Herald, Boston, Mass., undated

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

undated

GUSN

GUSN-267085

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Sewing equipment and supplies
Needles
Sewing equipment and supplies - Needles - Folder 1
"How to Solve Your Domestic Help Problem", The Boston Herald, Boston, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Sewing equipment and supplies
    - Needles
      - Sewing equipment and supplies - Needles - Folder 1
        Trade card for John James & Sons, manufacturers of all description of sewing needles and machine needles, Redditch, England, 1881
        Trade card for John James & Sons, manufacturers of all description of sewing needles and machine needles, Redditch, England, 1881
        Trade cards for J. & P. Coats' Best Six-Cord Spool Cotton and Cleopatra's Needle, J. & P. Coats, location unknown, undated
        How to solve your domestic help problem, The Boston Herald, Boston, Mass., undated (current record)
        Letterhead for the Bell Needle Company, manufacturers and dealers in hand and machine needles of every description, Nashua, New Hampshire, dated September 23, 1881
        Trade card, Stewart's Duplex Consapico Safety Pin, Consolidated Safety Pin Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey
        Bell Needle Company sample kit, Bell Needle Company, Nashua, New Hampshire, undated
        Advertisement, Needles in their principal stages, manufactured by Abel Morrall, prepared for the Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1855

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The item urges customers to place classified ads in "The Boston Herald.", with a newsboy is shown in the paper logo on the cover.The needles are Peerless Elliptic Large Eyes Sharps 3/9 made in Czechoslovakia.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
sewing (process)
needles (piercing tools)
newspapers
needle cases

Physical Descrption

1 needle case ; 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.102.02.01.004

Image Dimensions

5 1/2 x 3 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

needle cases

Subjects

Notions (Merchandise)
Paperboys

Description Level

Item

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