Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: ink blotters

"'No thanks,' said Banks, I want Cruikshank Delicious Apple Butter. Cruikshank Bros. Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A. Cubro Apple Butter. Net weight 2 lbs. avoir. H. Gamse & Bro. Litho., Balto., Md."

"Ontario Drill Company, East Rochester, N.Y. Eventually you will sell 'Ontario,' why not start now. Hoe or disc. H. Gamse & Bro., Lith., Balto., Md." An advertising ink blotter for the Ontario Drill Company, which manufactured grain drills and other agricultural equipment.

"Mrs. P. C. Williams, rooms for tourists, bath, free garage, 1211 Allegheny St., Hollidaysburg, Pa. Kozy and komfortable. Rooms for tourists. Drive in."

"Atlantic City Hot Wiener Lunch, 6th & Broad Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Telephone Bell 9221. Save this blotter for your check book. Going to the dogs. Coney Island lunch counter." For a similar blotter/business card, see Swails Restaurant, Best Coffee in the City, Harrisburg, Pa.

An advertising calendar and blotter for Pluck Art Printery--also known at different times throughout its history as Pluck Print, Pluck Electric Print, and Landis Art Press--which was a letterpress print shop operated by David Bachman Landis (1862-1940) in Lancaster, Pa. Blotters by the Basket or Barrel Briskly printed whenever you order 'em! Yearly Calendar--1897. Pluck Art Printery is ever on the alert throughout the entire year for new ideas and new customers. Try us and remain a patron. D. B. Landis. Most up-to-date job office in Lancaster. The number--38 East Chestnut Street.

"Enterprise Nurseries. George E. Stein, proprietor. East Prospect, York County, Pa. All kinds of fruit, shade, and ornamental trees, small fruit, nut trees, etc. Write for price list. Nurseries inspected by state inspector. Also all stock fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. York 'phone. Vredenburg & Co., Roch., N.Y."

This blotter, depicting a boisterous political character named the "Hon. I. Save-on Gas," was part of a Depression-era advertising campaign for Amoco's "Orange American Gas." With the approach of the 1932 U.S. presidentital election pitting Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover against New York Democratic governor Franklin D. Roosevelt., Amoco encouraged motorists to "Vote the Economy Ticket!" and buy its orange gasoline. The gasoline was actually dyed orange so that motorists could identify it by color through the clear glass cylinders that were part of the gas pumps of the time. I'm not sure how Amoco's Economy Ticket fared, but voters ended up choosing Roosevelt over Hoover as president.

"Swails Restaurant, R. O. Swails, prop. Before you try the rest, try the best. Strictly home cooked food. Best coffee in the city. 1913 Derry St., Harrisburg, Pa. Bell 3-9042. Open day and night. Never closed." For a similar blotter/business card, see Atlantic City Hot Wiener Lunch, Harrisburg, Pa.

An advertising ink blotter for Lee Tires. This automobile tire manufacturer went out of business in 1980, and the historic Lee Tire and Rubber Company factory buildings, located near Philadelphia, Pa., have been converted into an office complex known as the Spring Mill Corporate Center. For another Lee blotter, see Go Carefree! Lee Tires .

An advertising ink blotter for Lee Tires. A manufacturer of automobile tires, the Lee Tire and Rubber Company factory opened near Philadelphia, Pa., in 1912. See Burn Rubber to the Conshohocken Historical Society for a brief history of the company. For another Lee blotter, see Better Quality Lee Tires .

"You'll like our prompt cleaning. Phone us for convenient, careful service. Keemer Cleaner, Lincoln Highway East, phone 4-3721."

"The original paper pencil. No muss, no dirt, no fuss. No. 151 Blaisdell, made in U.S.A. No. 153. No. 161. 160 Crimson, 161 Vermillion, 145 Blue Print Red, 162 Carmine, 157 Orange, 154 Chrome Yellow, 155 Brown, 144 Sepia, 151 Blue, 149 Cobalt Blue, 150 Azure Blue, 146 Blue & Red, 153 Green, 148 Olive Green, 167 Purple, 147 Violet, 152 Black, 156 White. Blaisdell Pencil Co., Philadelphia, Pa."

"Semi-Hex Pencils. Semi-Hex, General Pencil Co., U.S.A., 498, no. 2. Smoothest of leads, comfortable to hold (rounded edges - made in 5 degrees). The Golden Rule, Belington, W. Va."

"Susquehanna Trail. The right road to a good smoke. Mild, mellow cigar." As Wikipedia explains, "The Susquehanna Trail was an auto trail in the United States linking Washington, D.C., with Niagara Falls, New York. It passed through Baltimore, Maryland; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; and Buffalo, New York." Although it's no longer an official designation, "Susquehanna Trail" is still widely used in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York as a name for roads, businesses, and places along the old route. Somewhere along the way, a tobacco company thought it would make a good name for a cigar as well.

"Lebanon Daily News-Times and I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Your newspaper boy, Harold E. Bressler."

"Buffalo Wire Works Company, Inc. Established 1869 as Scheeler's Sons. Buffalo, N.Y. Philadelphia, Penna."

"Consumers Cigar Box Company, Red Lion, Pa. Manufacturers of fancy and novelty boxes. Capacity 15,000 per day. 'If It's wooden boxes we make them.'"

"Erasers for Technical Men. Draftsmen, designers, architects, artists, engineers. Made in U.S.A. A. W. Faber, Newark, N.J." What, no erasers for women!?