THE EPHEMERA OF BUSINESS

Lion Brewery Pilsner Beer / Otter & Sable  Pens / Rough on Rats / Stoves / Merino  Angel / Bitters / Warner's Safe Cure / King Bee can label scrap Clarke's Blood Mixture / Red Jacket Bitters / Radish / Tarrant's Seltzer / Kinney Cigarettes Child's boot fastener / Cloth collar / Nestles  Royal Baking Powder label / Bitters / radish label / Guinness beer label Cutlery / BF Brown polish / Miller canes umbrellas / Durham tobacco  Old Hickory cement / Plows / Major's cement / Hess Gold Clip tobacco / Crane NY Refining Eagle / Langtry / Jeweler trade card / MF Tobin trade card Jumbo elephant trade cards / Buffalo Lithia water CI Hood booklet cover / Spencerian Steel Pens Hood booklet cover / Eagle Globe Brand Benson's Capcine porous plaster / Hair pins  1883 diary Zodiac cover / Victor rheumatic card / Kingsford starch / cheese  bandage

I bought a scrapbook last week and below are the first few pages of it. While its not full of trade cards, it is full of labels and cut off newspaper advertisement which I love. When I first looked at the book, I realized it was a salesmen sample for Alexander H. Stephens book the War Between the States . Stephens was a an American politician from Georgia and was Vice President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. This book was turned into a scrapbook by Robert C. Knox of Manchester Connecticut in 1882. Knox pasted in the book labels, newspaper advertisements and trade cards. Enjoy.

Paint, Oil, and Varnish Industry. The paint industry in the United States started in New York City , in 1715, when linseed oil was put on the market as an article of commercial value. This first mill was closely followed in 1718 by one in Connecticut , erected by John Prout, Jr. Later in 1750 the Dunkers, in Lancaster Co., Pa. , started the industry and by 1786 had four mills in operation. While paint had been used many years before the linseed-oil industry was started, yet its manufacture added a great stimulus to the use of paints because it aided greatly in the manufacture of paints and varnish and later became a necessary adjunct to the business. The rapid growth of the linseed-oil industry had not been without its effect in stimulating the use of paints. These colors were, however, wholly imported, and grew but slowly in general favor. Nevertheless by 1714 painters' colors were for sale in Boston , and while their employment, even for painting the churches, was fr...