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United States Label Printing Establishment Specimen Catalogs

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Call Number:
SCRC 206
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
0.75 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], United States Label Printing Establishment Specimen Catalogs, SCRC 206, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1868-1931 (inclusive)
Creator:
David Heston & Sons and United States Label Printing Establishment
Form:
Ephemera, Lithographs, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Scrapbooks, and Wood engravings (prints)
Abstract:

The United States Label Printing Establishment was founded in 1868, with David Heston, printer and Quaker minister, as proprietor. The company was located in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and later in Frankford in Philadelphia. David Heston subsequently led the firm David Heston & Sons, also located in Frankford.

This collection contains specimen catalogs primarily for the United States Label Printing Establishment, several from David Heston & Sons, and one catalog each from the Merchants Publishing Co. and the Buckeye Stamping Co. The specimen books contain designs for druggists' labels for boxes, bottles, and cans; prescription papers; stationary; and other items. Also included are several issues of the periodical The Druggists' Printer, printed by the United States Label Printing Establishment, and some other ephemera.

The collection is arranged chronologically.

Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino, June 26, 2015.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in November 2015 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.

William H. Helfand Popular Medicine Prints Collection, Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (Contains David Heston materials)

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Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Finding Aid Author
Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
Finding Aid Date
February 2024
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The United States Label Printing Establishment Specimen Catalogs are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, 1868.
Box 1 Folder 1
United States Label Printing Establishment. Scrapbook of printers' proofs of label specimen pages, circa 1868-1872.
Box 1 Folder 2
United States Label Printing Establishment. The Druggists' Printer, vol. 5, no. 2, January 1873.
Box 1 Folder 3
United States Label Printing Establishment. The Druggists' Printer, vol. 5, no. 3, April 1873.
Box 1 Folder 4
United States Label Printing Establishment. The Druggists' Printer, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1874.
Box 1 Folder 5
United States Label Printing Establishment. The Druggists' Printer, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1874.
Box 1 Folder 6
United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, 1873-1874.
Box 1 Folder 7
United States Label Printing Establishment. The Druggists' Printer, vol. 6, no. 4, October 1874.
Box 1 Folder 8
United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimen Book: Druggists' Labels, Physicians' Prescription Papers, &c., 1875.
Box 1 Folder 9
United States Label Printing Establishment. Printers' specimen book, circa 1875-1885.
Box 1 Folder 10
United States Label Printing Establishment. Heston's Lithographic Specimens: Druggists' Printing, 1878.
Box 1 Folder 11
United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, Prescription Papers, &c., 1878.
Box 1 Folder 12
United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, Prescription Papers, &c., 1878.
Box 1 Folder 13
United States Label Printing Establishment. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, Prescription Papers, &c., bound volume, circa 1879.
Box 1 Folder 14
United States Label Printing Establishment. David Heston's Revised Edition of Letterpress Specimens, circa 1880.
Box 1 Folder 15
United States Label Printing Establishment. Reduced Price-List of Ready-Labeled Pill and Powder Boxes and Specimens of Druggists' Labels, &c., 1880.
Box 1 Folder 16
United States Label Printing Establishment (?). Reduction in Prices, 1880.
Box 1 Folder 17
United States Label Printing Establishment. Sample books of physicians' prescription cards, circa 1880.
Box 1 Folder 18
David Heston & Sons. Heston's Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Druggists' Labels from the U.S. Label Printing Establishment, circa 1885.
Box 2 Folder 1
David Heston & Sons, Printers and Embossers, specimen booklet, circa 1890.
Box 2 Folder 2
David Heston & Sons, Printers and Embossers, specimen booklet, circa 1890.
Box 2 Folder 3
David Heston & Sons. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, circa 1890.
Box 2 Folder 4
David Heston & Sons. Designs and Illustrations of Embossed Printing, 1892.
Box 2 Folder 5
Frederick N. Burt. Druggists' Labels and Boxes, circa 1895.
Box 2 Folder 6
David Heston & Sons. Specimens of Druggists' Labels, circa 1900.
Box 2 Folder 7
Merchants Publishing Co. Druggists' Labels Boxes and Stationary, circa 1900.
Box 2 Folder 8
Buckeye Stamping Co. Druggists' Tin Boxes and Cans, June 1903.
Box 2 Folder 9
David Heston & Sons. Folding Carton Printing, circa 1903.
Box 2 Folder 10
David Heston & Sons. Printed circular, 1931.
Box 2 Folder 11
David Heston. Catalogue and Price List of Druggists' Boxes, undated.
Box 2 Folder 12

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