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Paul B. Davidson collection of watermarks, 1618-1987

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Davidson, Paul Ballinger, 1896-1988
Title
Paul B. Davidson collection of watermarks
Dates
1618-1987 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.2 linear feet
Collection Number
Collection 2616
Summary
Paul B. Davidson was a graduate of Montana State College and a paper scientist who specialized in paper technology and the chemistry of wood and cellulose. His collection consists of stamps, letterhead, paper samples, currency samples, and watermark drawings. Also included in the collection are the accession cards from Montana State University Art Department's Copeland Gallery, files pertaining to the history of watermarks, and papermaking screens.
Repository
Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Languages
Collection materials are in English
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Biographical Note

Paul Ballinger Davidson, PhD, son of Wells S. and Lucy L. Ballinger Davidson, was born August 12, 1896. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Montana State College in 1919 and a doctorate from Columbia University in New York City, N.Y. in 1924. In 1924 Davidson married Marie Bunnell September 5, 1925. Paul and Marie had two daughters, Jane and Esther Lee. He died January 1, 1988.

Dr. Davidson worked for Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. He was an incumbent of an Industrial Research Fellowship at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Davidson was a member of American Chemical Society, the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, the Pittsburgh Chemists Club, and held several patents related to papermaking.

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Content Description

The collection consists of stamps, letterhead, paper samples, currency samples, and watermark drawings. Also included in the collection are the accession cards from Montana State University Art Department's Copeland Gallery, files pertaining to the history of watermarks, and papermaking screens.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Creator Name], [Date of Creation], [Brief Description of Object], Folder [#], Box [#], [Collection Name], [Collection #], Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Paul B. Davidson Watermark Collection was donated to Special Collections by the Montana State University Art Department's Copeland Gallery April 11, 2016.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2016 August 18

Related Materials

Additional information and examples of Dr. Davidson's papermaking activities can be found in Series 4 of Collection 2448 – Hamilton, Ballinger, Davidson, Bunnell, McAfee, and Weesner Family Papers, 1767-1998.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Copeland Gallery Accession Cards
    Container: Box 1
  • #1-10

    Container: Box 2, Folder 1

    • Description: #1 Coast and geodetic survey stamp
    • Description: #2 United States postage 1¢

      Swanton

    • Description: #3 United States postage 3¢
      Dates: 1876
    • Description: #4 United States 2¢
      Dates: 1892
    • Description: #5 United States 1¢

      Deerfield

    • Description: #6 United States 2¢

      Unaddressed

    • Description: #7 The original evaporated milk
    • Description: #8 Douglass Barnes Company, New York
    • Description: #9 John Deere, Moline, Illinois
    • Description: #10 Hand opening a faucet

      Lunkenheimer

  • #11-18C

    Container: Box 2, Folder 2

    • Description: #11 Socony-vacoum

      Pegasus

    • Description: #12 Hercules Powder Company letterhead

      letter about changing from Ethyl Abietate to Methyl Abieate

    • Description: #13 Shado-craft Watermark Bond
    • Description: #14 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance letterhead

      handwritten letter

    • Description: #15 Remington Rand Inc. Duplicator Supplies Division letterhead

      typed letter

    • Description: #16 Dravo Corporation letterhead

      typed letter

      Dates: February 1, 1943
    • Description: #17 ACC

      repeated

    • Description: #18A Watermark airplane

      Aircraft Bond (multiple)

    • Description: #18B Watermark airplane

      Aircraft Bond (multiple)

    • Description: #18C Watermark airplane

      Aircraft Bond (multiple)

  • #19-28

    Container: Box 2, Folder 3

    • Description: #19 Oldest Trust Company in Oregon 1887

      Circular; Portland and Trust and Savings Bank

    • Description: #20 "Wisconsin 1st. Group" with Wisconsin map in triangular shape
    • Description: #21 "Pale and Roasted Malt for Every Purpose, Malt of Reputation Park ever since 1842 (?)"

      [triangle]

    • Description: #22 "Spear and Company Furniture"
    • Description: #23 T.M. Dodge Reg
    • Description: #24 "The Plains Hotel Cheyenne Wyoming"

      Image of Native America

    • Description: #25 "All America Cables"

      Shado-craft bond Grad E

    • Description: #26 "Motion Pictures News Dominates the Field"
    • Description: #27 "Patrick Duluth" with tree image
    • Description: #28 "The Boston Post Established 1831"
  • #29-37

    Container: Box 2, Folder 4

    • Description: #29 "Pure clean/King William/Protects quality meats"
    • Description: #30A FE Kingston and Company/FKE/Investment Securities

      Circular

    • Description: #30B FE Kingston and Company/FKE/Investment Securities

      Circular

    • Description: #31 Handwritten letter; Watermark – "Old Scotch Bond"/Thistle image/Rag Content USA
      Dates: February 19, 1944
    • Description: #32 Purina Chows
    • Description: #33 Volvntatis
    • Description: #34 Shado-craft
    • Description: #35 Talking machine
    • Description: #36 Victor
    • Description: #37 Editions Club
  • #38-47

    Container: Box 2, Folder 5

    • Description: #38 Praying Person
    • Description: #39 Old Spanish Bond
    • Description: #40 Indian
    • Description: #41 Riverside
    • Description: #42 Lilly
    • Description: #43 Wells Fargo Union
    • Description: #44 Charity
    • Description: #45 Pendant
    • Description: #46 Kansas City
    • Description: #47 Ethyl
  • #48-57

    Container: Box 2, Folder 6

    • Description: #48 Lake Geneva
    • Description: #49 New York World's Fair
    • Description: #50 Lions
    • Description: #51 On the Plaza
    • Description: #52 Rem Rand Standard

      Code Number 216

    • Description: #53 Quality and Service Bond

      Code Number 206

    • Description: #54 Mohawk Bond

      Code Number 286

    • Description: #55 L "A" Quality Ledger

      Code Number 802

    • Description: #56 Standard Systems Ledger

      Code Number 812

    • Description: #57 Library Standard

      Code Number 02

  • #58-67

    Container: Box 2, Folder 7

    • Description: #58 Mercantile, medium bristols

      Code Number 52

    • Description: #59 Huntington, medium bristols

      Code Number 22

    • Description: #60 Library Bureau 75

      Code Number 12A

    • Description: #61 Mellon National Bank and Trust Company

      Ledger

    • Description: #62 CM McClung and Company
    • Description: #63 The Anchor Packing Company
    • Description: #64 Hare, Long, and Snow

      [Hare, Long, and Company]

    • Description: #65 Kansas City
    • Description: #66 Massachusetts
    • Description: #67 Eastman Chemical Products
  • #68-77

    Container: Box 2, Folder 8

    • Description: #68 Fisher Scientific Company

      Thank you

      Dates: July 21, 1943
    • Description: #69 The Lilly Research Laboratories

      fall issue of Research Today

      Dates: October 1958
    • Description: #70 DuPont; "The Neoprene Notebook"
      Dates: undated
    • Description: #71 Jones and Laughlin Steel

      Chemist Club Membership

      Dates: October 7, 1944
    • Description: #72 Swingline
    • Description: #73 Ars Gratia Artis
    • Description: #74 Investors Research Bureau
    • Description: #75 Diamond Matches
    • Description: #76 Vultee
    • Description: #77 Page and Shaw
  • #78-85A

    Container: Box 2, Folder 9

    • Description: #78 New York
    • Description: #79A Live better electrically
    • Description: #79B Live better electrically
    • Description: #80 Capital Airlines letterhead

      typed letter about ticket refund

      Dates: January 24, 1951
    • Description: #81 Mellon National Bank letterhead

      typed letter about Fourth War Loan goal

      Dates: January 3, 1944
    • Description: #82 The Glidden Company letterhead

      typed letter about sample of Alpha Protein

      Dates: April 23, 1942
    • Description: #83 The Limited Edition Club/Inc. 595/Madison Avenue, New York letterhead

      typed letter about refund for books

      Dates: May 12, 1941
    • Description: #84A Northern Pacific circular
    • Description: #84B Northern Pacific circular
    • Description: #85A "Live Better Electricaly/Free Enterprise at Work"

      face with bulb nose and socket ear

  • #85B-88E

    Container: Box 2, Folder 10

    • Description: #85B "Live Better Electricaly/Free Enterprise at Work"

      face with bulb nose and socket ear

    • Description: #86A "Live Better with Electricity…/with free enterprise"

      electricity man stepping out of wall socket

    • Description: #86B "Live Better with Electricity…/with free enterprise"

      electricity man stepping out of wall socket

    • Description: #87A "Live Better with Electrically/Free Enterprise at Work"

      dancing electricity man

    • Description: #87B "Live Better with Electrically/Free Enterprise at Work"

      dancing electricity man

    • Description: #88A Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88B Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88C Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88D Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88E Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
  • #88F-95

    Container: Box 2, Folder 11

    • Description: #88F Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88G Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #88H Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin
    • Description: #89 Reproduction of Ben Franklin Watermark/portrait of Ben Franklin

      "He who hath trade hat an estate" Ben Franklin signature; Made for Eastern States Exposition

      Dates: 1955
    • Description: #90 Image of man pulling in nets from ocean "Plank"
    • Description: #91 Image of man with rifle in tall grasses

      "Jos J. Plank and Company/Dandy Rolls/Appleton, Wisconsin; Flying High"

    • Description: #92 "Jos J. Plank and Company/Dandy Rolls/Artistic Watermarking"

      with beams shooting from emblem

    • Description: #93 Frank [Fred] Kranhold's 50th Anniversary

      "in paper"/with Kimberly Clark Corporation/Neenah

      Dates: 1891/1941
    • Description: #94 "Defense for America"

      with Eagle over a warship

    • Description: #95 Abe Lincoln and George Washington side views in circle

      "Jos J. Plank and Company/Appleton, Wisconsin

  • #96-103

    Container: Box 2, Folder 12

    • Description: #96 Side image of a hound

      "Jos J. Plank/Watermarking Company/Appleton, Wisconsin"

    • Description: #97A Surfboard shape with reeds inside

      "Jos J. Plank and Company/Aristotle/Watermarking"

    • Description: #97B Surfboard shape with reeds inside

      side chevron pattern with flowers; "Jos J. Plank and Company/Aristotle/Watermarking"

    • Description: #98 Eagle over warship

      "Jos J. Plank and Company/ Dandy Rolls/Appleton, Wisconsin"

    • Description: #99A One-half paper

      four cartoon heads watching TV

    • Description: #99B One-half paper

      four cartoon heads watching TV

    • Description: #100 "Howard Smith Bell-fast Bond" circle

      Made in Canada

    • Description: #101 Green accounting paper

      "Bond Asfrine(?)"

    • Description: #102 One-half page [triangle] British Treasury Bond/Made in Canada

      "Ernescliffe" letterhead

    • Description: #103 "Fidelity Onion Skin/Eslebok(?) Manufacturing Company/Made in USA"
  • #104-113

    Container: Box 2, Folder 13

    • Description: #104 Emblem "Mead Papers for better impressions"
    • Description: #105 Canadian Pulp and Paper Association letterhead
      Dates: February 26, 1941
    • Description: #106 "The Firm of Bell and Bell…"

      double sided with Ballad

    • Description: #107 Worthy Paper Company Association letterhead

      typed letter about watermarks

      Dates: November 3, 1941
    • Description: #108 Worthy Paper Company Association letterhead

      typed letter about watermarks

      Dates: October 27, 1941
    • Description: #109 Beaux Arts Apartment Hotel letterhead

      typed letter about staying in hotel

      Dates: June 25, 1941
    • Description: #110 Montana State Board of Health Water Laboratory worksheet

      Northwestern bond watermark

    • Description: #111 Burrell Technical Supply letterhead

      typed letter about new supplies plan

      Dates: September 18, 1941
    • Description: #112 Bond from 1900/yellow/stamped for $20
    • Description: #113 "Park Hotel Great Falls, Montana" letterhead

      "Management Bond Hammermill product…"cut off watermark

  • #114-123

    Container: Box 2, Folder 14

    • Description: #114 Bristol's/printed in the USA
    • Description: #115 "195" page number

      notebook paper; bird watermark

    • Description: #116 "Mohawk" with Native American outline in an arrowhead
    • Description: #117 Small Melon colored paper

      "American eggshell text"

    • Description: #118 Small yellow paper "American eggshell text" cut off
    • Description: #119 "National"

      with eagle watermark

    • Description: #120 "Ditto Longrum B"
    • Description: #121 "Worthy Hadrian"
    • Description: #122 Worthy Serling and Bond/100 percent new rag/USA
    • Description: #123 "Howard Mimeograph"
  • #124-132B

    Container: Box 2, Folder 15

    • Description: #124 "Eduoc(?) Bond"

      over crest

    • Description: #125 Eatoris Vellum Bond/USA/Berkshire/109
    • Description: #126 Fine Flax Paper
    • Description: #127 Talcott Lodge, Brother Jonathen, Livingston, Montana
    • Description: #128 Old Franklin Bond
    • Description: #129 The Chemists' Club

      Old Chester Bond

    • Description: #130 Nebraska State Capital
    • Description: #131 Great Banking Institution
    • Description: #132A Barton Duer
    • Description: #132B Barton Duer
  • #133A-140

    Container: Box 2, Folder 16

    • Description: #133A Kimberly Bond
    • Description: #133B Kimberly Bond
    • Description: #133C Kimberly Bond
    • Description: #134 Erasable Bond
    • Description: #135 Aurelius
    • Description: #136 Eatons Bond
    • Description: #137 Ezerase Bond
    • Description: #138 Ledger

      #241-264

    • Description: #139 Juniata
    • Description: #140 Hurds Royal White
  • #141-149

    Container: Box 2, Folder 17

    • Description: #141 Hoak and Andes

      SOF

    • Description: #142 Coupon Bond
    • Description: #143 Acceptance Bond
    • Description: #144 Eagle Agawam
    • Description: #145A Mellon Institute letterhead
    • Description: #145B Mellon Institute letterhead
    • Description: #146 Hatman with drawing
    • Description: #147 Hatman

      with boat

      Dates: 1864
    • Description: #148 U.S.
      Dates: 1903
    • Description: #149 The Crale School
  • #150-159

    Container: Box 2, Folder 18

    • Description: #150 Superfine Linen
    • Description: #151 Nonotuck Company

      Coupon Bond

    • Description: #152 Thornton Nurseries

      Quality Persian Bond

    • Description: #153 Lancaster Bond
    • Description: #154 J. Whatman
      Dates: 1926
    • Description: #155 The City of Bozeman

      letter of resignation

      Dates: September 30, 1948
    • Description: #156 Envelope Win the War 3¢

      Mr. Paul Davidson

    • Description: #157 Letter

      John Gibbons Patent

    • Description: #158 Kelly Wood Insurance Agency

      Fire Insurance

      Dates: November 19, 1928
    • Description: #159 National Geographic Society
      Dates: January 29, 1916
  • #160-169

    Container: Box 2, Folder 19

    • Description: #160 Synthetic Organic Chemical

      text

    • Description: #161 From: William C. Mohr

      National Bank Bond

    • Description: #162 District Court

      Proving the Will

      Dates: August 7, 1941
    • Description: #163 Letter

      Whiting Paper

      Dates: August 5, 1892
    • Description: #164 Text

      Impressions of Robert Kennedy Duncan; Utopian

    • Description: #165 Rohm and Haas Company

      Replying to letter; Neenah Glacier Bond

      Dates: March 31, 1941
    • Description: #166 Plaskon Company

      2 pounds of Type 335-2; Urea-Formaldehyde Resin

      Dates: May 19, 1941
    • Description: #167 Handwritten letter

      Frowns and smiles; Mills 1856

    • Description: #168 Haugh and Keenan

      Acknowledge of receipt; Old Scotch Bond

      Dates: October 4th, 1928
    • Description: #169 A.J. Th. Vand Der Vlugt

      Dutch group-patents; Hollandish

      Dates: July 18th, 1939
  • #170-176

    Container: Box 2, Folder 20

    • Description: #170 Brown Company

      Alpha paper purchase; Alpha Bond

      Dates: November 24, 1933
    • Description: #171 Papermaking text
    • Description: #172 A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company

      Thank you letter; World Bond

      Dates: June 9, 1942
    • Description: #173 American Chemical Society

      badge envelopes; Strathmore Bond

      Dates: August 23, 1943
    • Description: #174 Baugh and Sons Company

      response to letter Whiting's Pure Linen

      Dates: April 9, 1942
    • Description: #175A Old English Bond
    • Description: #175B Old English Bond
    • Description: #175C Old English Bond
    • Description: #175D Old English Bond
    • Description: #176 Watermark of crescent hairs
  • #177-186

    Container: Box 2, Folder 21

    • Description: #177 Bandage imprint hatching
    • Description: #178 Futurist design
    • Description: #179 Blue paper

      bamboo reed design

    • Description: #180 Rotating triangles
    • Description: #181 White/cream paper

      bamboo reed design

    • Description: #182 Crescent hair design
    • Description: #183 Stone/vertebrae-like blocks
    • Description: #184 Woodgrain
    • Description: #185 Small sheet 4 3/4" x 5 1/2" bandage
    • Description: #186 Flower poppies/simple pattern/3 leaves dot center
  • #187-196

    Container: Box 2, Folder 22

    • Description: #187 Victorian flowers/roses
    • Description: #188 Your druggist always ready to serve/promptly, economically with intersecting comb pattern
    • Description: #189 Brush strokes
    • Description: #190 Letterhead from Tillotson-McCullough Furniture Company

      letter about family name of Tillotson, watermark-line sweeping image

      Dates: July 21, 1932
    • Description: #191 Orange-rust colored paper; lines forming squares, alternating vertical and horizontal with hardware written vertically, horizontally across page
    • Description: #192 Vertical lines
    • Description: #193 Woven basket pattern
    • Description: #194 Woven basket pattern
    • Description: #195 Burrell Technical Supply Company price quote

      Chevron pattern with solid trapezoids for optical illusion "cranes"

    • Description: #196 Straight lines horizontal
  • #197A-203B

    Container: Box 2, Folder 23

    • Description: #197A Jos. J. Plank and Company/Watermarking/Appleton, Wisconsin

      Palm trees with pyramids in background

    • Description: #197B Jos. J. Plank and Company/Watermarking/Appleton, Wisconsin

      Palm trees with pyramids in background

    • Description: #198 Circle with blossoms extending from the bottom inside an opaque rectangle with ЯR
    • Description: #199 Thistle with "Strathmore Thistlemark/100 percent Rag USA" beneath
    • Description: #200 Blossom watermark

      "Shogun Paper…"

    • Description: #201 Letterhead from Haugh and Keenan/Storage and Transfer Compan

      typed letter about damaged crates; Watermark: thistle under Old Scotch Bond over Made in U.S.A.

      Dates: November 9, 1928
    • Description: #202A image of Theodore Roosevelt

      At Your (cut off); text: Shado-craft Superfine…

      Dates: 1858-1919
    • Description: #202B image of Theodore Roosevelt

      At Your (cut off); text: Shado-craft Superfine…

      Dates: 1858-1919
    • Description: #203A Statue of Angel holding U.S. flag with soldier kneeling down
    • Description: #203B Statue of Angel holding U.S. flag with soldier kneeling down
  • #203C-212

    Container: Box 2, Folder 24

    • Description: #203C Statue of Angel holding U.S. flag with soldier kneeling down
    • Description: #204 Hand holding arrows

      "worthy"

    • Description: #205 "Old Spanish Bond"

      over circle with two figures inside leaning away from one another "Santa Barbaro"

    • Description: #206 Man in dress with stars praying up to sky

      Standing

    • Description: #207 Columbia University letterhead

      typed letter about interlibrary loan; watermark: soldier holding musket above: 1776 dow: bond; cut off

      Dates: December 17, 1940
    • Description: #208 Figure balancing on a circle with a ribbon/weed in hand
    • Description: #209 "Tovil/Handmade in England…"

      watermark: hand

    • Description: #210 "World's Fair New York, New York" in circle around image of George Washington over "1776-1939"
    • Description: #211 "National Lead Company/Research Laboratories" letterhead

      watermark: a boy with arm raised, sitting on a beach with a bucket

    • Description: #212 Circle

      "Bank of America/National Association/Trust and Savings/worldwide scope statewide service San Francisco head office/California" with ship inside

  • #213-222

    Container: Box 2, Folder 25

    • Description: #213 "Scrirfs(?) Howard" with image of lighthouse in a rectangle
    • Description: #214 Image of 5 story hotel with "on the plaza" beneath
    • Description: #215 "Rubidoux Bond" in shape of bridge

      "Riverside, Cal" lighthouse on one side, cross on hill on other pueblo; Adobe village with mill to the right side and high rise in background

    • Description: #216 Bottom right corner

      castle with "Capuleti wove" beneath

    • Description: #217 High rise with heart base

      "Kansas City Power and Light Company" horizontal; "The Industrial Heart in the Heart of the Nation" below

    • Description: #218 "A great banking institution" over covered wagon

      Wells Fargo insignia

    • Description: #219 Image of woman

      "Dard Hunter"

    • Description: #220 Portrait of man (?)

      yellow paper

    • Description: #221 Image of Frederick Goudy
    • Description: #222 Frederick Goudy 10"x7" 4 times
  • #223-232

    Container: Box 3, Folder 1

    • Description: #223 Abraham Lincoln
    • Description: #224 Decature Bond

      image of Napoleon (?)

    • Description: #225 50-Fox River-50

      guaranteed 50% rag cotton

    • Description: #226 BK Elliot Company Fulton 50% rag
    • Description: #227 Blue architecture paper

      trade in challenge in mark 50%

    • Description: #228 "The United States Leather Company" circle with bull inside
    • Description: #229 "Turkey linen"

      turkey watermark

    • Description: #230 Aluminum Company of America letterhead

      letter about returning a book; watermark-"beaver bond/rag content" with image of beaver

      Dates: September 28, 1938
    • Description: #231 Vanlines letterhead

      "Coupon Bond" eagle image over quality

    • Description: #232 Shado-craft bonds

      eagle image

  • #233-242

    Container: Box 3, Folder 2

    • Description: #233 Letterhead Canadian Pulp and Paper Association

      mole insignia; Made in Canada cut off

      Dates: September 29, 1942
    • Description: #234 Steno pad paper/page 193/94
    • Description: #235 Pegasus

      "soconyacuum(?)"

    • Description: #236 Ibis

      "ciconia"

    • Description: #237 "Cranes Japanese linen/made in the USA" ibis inside a c
    • Description: #238 Jos. J. Plank and Company/Dandy Rolls/Appleton, Wisconsin

      watermark: geese flying over grasses

    • Description: #239 German Shepard over "PAL"
    • Description: #240 Bull
    • Description: #241 Phillips Petroleum Company letterhead

      typed letter about war effort; watermark: turkey; "linen/100% rag"

      Dates: March 15, 1942
    • Description: #242 Bull on hind legs Italia
  • #243-250

    Container: Box 3, Folder 3

    • Description: #243 Envelope addressed to Dr. P.B. Davidson

      Bear bond

    • Description: #244 The wolf nursing Romulus and Remus in oval over ROMA
    • Description: #245 Oxhead, Holland paper fold out
    • Description: #246A Howard Smith

      Bellfast Bond; Mole in a circle; Made in Canada

    • Description: #246B Howard Smith; Bellfast Bond

      Bellfast Bond; Mole in a circle; Made in Canada

    • Description: #246C Howard Smith; Bellfast Bond

      Bellfast Bond; Mole in a circle; Made in Canada

    • Description: #247 The Revival; 18th century typography
    • Description: #248 Parchment paper
    • Description: #249 Sample of B.V.P.
    • Description: #250 Leather 2A
  • #251-260

    Container: Box 3, Folder 4

    • Description: #251 Basket weave 4A
    • Description: #252 Handmade
    • Description: #253 Linen 5C
    • Description: #254 [Dove with olive branch]
    • Description: #255 KR [clover]
    • Description: #256 [Head with star above]
    • Description: #257 [Shield with clover]
    • Description: #258 [Leaf]
    • Description: #259 From Dutch bible

      Owned by Boree

      Dates: 1618-1619
    • Description: #260 [Weave pattern]
  • #261-269

    Container: Box 3, Folder 5

    • Description: #261 from a Mercator Atlas

      4 separate pages

      Dates: circa 1628
    • Description: #262 Plate CCXXXI

      8 separate pages

    • Description: #263 Pages from Ortelius' epitome du Theatre du Monde
    • Description: #264 Dairy Butter
    • Description: #265A The Bellevue Stratford
    • Description: #265B The Bellevue Stratford
    • Description: #266 WP
    • Description: #267 Letter: Hamiton Papers

      samples; Old Treaty Bond

      Dates: April 2, 1953
    • Description: #268 Sketch of trees and pond
    • Description: #269 Envelope

      US Postage 3¢ Italy [star]

  • #270-279

    Container: Box 3, Folder 6

    • Description: #270 Fiume Giano
    • Description: #271 Umbria

      Japan Paper Company

    • Description: #272 Umbria

      (in red) 15x20 inches

    • Description: #273 Price list

      P. Milani Fabriano

    • Description: #274 Fiume Rubicone

      (blue)

    • Description: #275 Envelope

      US Postage 3¢; Mr. and Mrs. P.B. Davidson, Italy

    • Description: #276 Roma
    • Description: #277 Pace
    • Description: #278 San Marco

      [bull]

    • Description: #279 Tuscany
  • #280-287C

    Container: Box 3, Folder 7

    • Description: #280 Tuscany

      (Italy)

    • Description: #281 Lombardia

      Made in Italy

    • Description: #282 C.P.M. Fabnano-Italy
    • Description: #283 Capuleti
    • Description: #284 P_M_Fabriano
    • Description: #285 Coat of arms
    • Description: #286 Coat of arms
    • Description: #287A Tracings

      on tracing paper

    • Description: #287B Tracings

      on tracing paper

    • Description: #287C Tracings

      on tracing paper

  • #288-296

    Container: Box 3, Folder 8

    • Description: #288 Text from the Philistine
    • Description: #289 [Rug with cross]
    • Description: #290 Letter

      Fisher Scientific Company; unusual watermark; Fisher

      Dates: March 6, 1942
    • Description: #291 [Hand]
    • Description: #292 Envelope

      Mrs. M.S. Ballinger

    • Description: #293 Tiny Envelope

      Ballinger Addressed

    • Description: #294 Letter

      As the weather…

      Dates: April 21st, 1891
    • Description: #295A Heavyweight paper
    • Description: #295B Heavyweight paper
    • Description: #296 [Shield]
  • #297-306

    Container: Box 3, Folder 9

    • Description: #297 Lombardia

      made in Italy

    • Description: #298 GR
    • Description: #299 Maly Pense

      Honi Soit

    • Description: #300 Envelope containing

      1 small envelope, 2 paper samples, "Williamsburg Post"

    • Description: #301 Lombardia Italy

      "Cremona"

    • Description: #302 Dios Patria Libertad
    • Description: #303 Umbria Italia
    • Description: #304 B and L
    • Description: #305 Rosaspina
    • Description: #306 [Heraldic design]
  • #307-315

    Container: Box 3, Folder 10

    • Description: #307 Precision Gruen
    • Description: #308 Vasari Italian

      (yellow)

    • Description: #309 Honi Soir
    • Description: #310 Duca Deste
    • Description: #311 Page and Shaw
    • Description: #312 Envelope

      "Columbus Liberty"

      Dates: 1492-1892
    • Description: #313 Missouri Commissioner for Motor Vehicles
    • Description: #314A Green Paper with watermark eagles
    • Description: #314B Green Paper with watermark eagles
    • Description: #315 Life insurance example
  • #316-321

    Container: Box 3, Folder 11

    • Description: #316 Democratic National Congressional Committee

      watermark eagle

    • Description: #317A Pale blue paper, eagle watermark
    • Description: #317 B Pale blue paper, eagle watermark
    • Description: #318A Watermark, eagle

      cream paper

    • Description: #318B Watermark, eagle

      cream paper

    • Description: #318C Watermark, eagle

      cream paper

    • Description: #318D Watermark, eagle

      cream paper

    • Description: #319 Congress of United States

      Herman P. Eberharter; eagle watermark

    • Description: #320 American Chemical Society

      watermark-eagle

      Dates: 1943
    • Description: #321 Philadelphia, "?" greatest workshop

      heraldic symbol

  • #322-330

    Container: Box 3, Folder 12

    • Description: #322 War Department letterhead

      letter about genealogy; eagle watermark

      Dates: November 9, 1933
    • Description: #323 Foldout

      State of New York

    • Description: #324 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

      Incorporated

      Dates: May 18, 1914
    • Description: #325A "Florida Land of Sunshine" with map of state
    • Description: #325B "Florida Land of Sunshine" with map of state
    • Description: #326 Congress of United States

      survey about budget; watermark eagle mark

    • Description: #327 Large foldout of USA insignia
    • Description: #328 "The Great State of Ohio" with insignia

      State of Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles letterhead; letter about car accident

      Dates: July 8, 1946
    • Description: #329 "Department of State, United States of America" insignia

      8 1/2 x 11

    • Description: #330 Wisconsin "Land of Lakes" with map

      made with hand mould

  • #331-339

    Container: Box 3, Folder 13

    • Description: #331A "United States Department of Agriculture" letterhead

      eagle watermark

    • Description: #331B "United States Department of Agriculture" letterhead

      eagle watermark

    • Description: #332 Seal of Bergen County-1617

      New Jersey

      Dates: 1917
    • Description: #333 "Treasury Department Washington" letterhead

      eagle watermark

    • Description: #334 "Banco De la Republica"

      Bogota, Columbia

    • Description: #335 "Study questions on pulp and paper making course 103…"

      eagle watermark

    • Description: #336 Eagle watermark

      change of address letter

      Dates: December 18, 1940
    • Description: #337 "Department of Congress" letterhead

      eagle watermark; patent letter

    • Description: #338 "Dios Patria Libertao Republica Dominicana"

      heraldic watermark

    • Description: #339 "Nebraska State Capital"

      with image of tall building

  • #340-343G

    Container: Box 3, Folder 14

    • Description: #340 "Tennessee State Office Building"
    • Description: #341 "Republica De Panama papel sellado"
    • Description: #342 War insurance information for P.B. Davidson
    • Description: #343A Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343B Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343C Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343D Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343E Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343F Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343G Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

  • #343H-349

    Container: Box 3, Folder 15

    • Description: #343H Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343I Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343J Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #343K Republica de Venezuela

      Ministerio de la Defensa; Oficiana Technica

    • Description: #344 Pan American Life
    • Description: #345 Empire Savings and Loan Association letterhead

      "Montana Bond" in state of Montana watermark

    • Description: #346 Cornell University
    • Description: #347 Brooklyn College
    • Description: #348 Williams College
    • Description: #349 University of Colorado
  • #350-359

    Container: Box 3, Folder 16

    • Description: #350 Ohio Wesleyan University
    • Description: #351 North Western University
    • Description: #352 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Description: #353 Loyola University
    • Description: #354 Getysburg College
    • Description: #355 Emory University
    • Description: #356 Columbia University letterhead

      letter for interlibrary loan; crown watermark

    • Description: #357 Northwestern University

      letter about change of name on records

      Dates: August 22, 1941
    • Description: #358 University of Illinois
    • Description: #359 New York University
  • #360-366

    Container: Box 3, Folder 17

    • Description: #360 Columbia University

      letter about an outline of a course on metallurgy

      Dates: September 23, 1929
    • Description: #361 University of Minnesota

      letter about references for thermal testing

      Dates: April 24, 1941
    • Description: #362A University of Purdue
    • Description: #362B University of Purdue
    • Description: #362C University of Purdue
    • Description: #363 Wesleyn University of Ohio

      letter about admission

      Dates: December 19, 1944
    • Description: #364 MIT

      letter about admission

      Dates: May 10, 1929
    • Description: #365A William Jewell College
    • Description: #365B William Jewell College
    • Description: #366 Columbia University

      letter about establishment of Society of Columbia Chemists, etc.

      Dates: May 30, 1961
  • #367-375

    Container: Box 3, Folder 18

    • Description: #367 Carnegie Institute of Technology
    • Description: #368A University of Oklahoma
    • Description: #368B University of Oklahoma
    • Description: #369 Circular seal the Agricultural and Mechanical College 1891 of the State of Oklahoma
    • Description: #370 The Columbia Fund

      letter about donating

      Dates: May 16, 1949
    • Description: #371 Columbia crown
    • Description: #372 Western Reserve University
    • Description: #373 Kansas Bond

      University of Kansas letterhead

    • Description: #374 Sigillum-Universitatis-Brunensis
    • Description: #375 MIT
  • #376-384

    Container: Box 3, Folder 19

    • Description: #376 100 Mark
      Dates: April 1910
    • Description: #377 Tickets?
      Dates: 1923
    • Description: #378 Confetti paper with Asian Characters
    • Description: #379 100 Krones (?)
    • Description: #380 ? [White paper, watermark illegible words and crown]
    • Description: #381 1000 Mark
      Dates: December 1922
    • Description: #382 3?
    • Description: #383A 100,000 Mark
    • Description: #383B 100,000 Mark
    • Description: #384 $50 confederate $

      Richmond, Virginia

      Dates: April 6, 1863
  • #385-393

    Container: Box 3, Folder 20

    • Description: #385 State of Missouri $3 bond
      Dates: November 5, 1861
    • Description: #386 5000?
    • Description: #387 Banque of France
    • Description: #388 Reichs note
      Dates: October 20, 1923
    • Description: #389 Reichs bank note

      20 million Mark

      Dates: October 1, 1923
    • Description: #390 500,000 Mark
      Dates: 1923
    • Description: #391A 1000 Mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #391B 1000 Mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #392 Eighteen Pence

      printed in New Jersey

      Dates: March 25, 1776
    • Description: #393 100 million mark(?)
      Dates: 1923
  • #394-402

    Container: Box 3, Folder 21

    • Description: #394 10 pesos
      Dates: 1914
    • Description: #395A Russian 5
      Dates: 1909
    • Description: #395B Russian 5
      Dates: 1909
    • Description: #396 50 mark
      Dates: 1919
    • Description: #397 1000 kronen
      Dates: 1902
    • Description: #398 5 pesos

      State of Chihuahua

      Dates: 1914
    • Description: #399 Un Peso
      Dates: 1914
    • Description: #400 100 mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #401 The Japanese Government

      1 peso

    • Description: #402 The Japanese Government

      10 pesos

  • #403-408B

    Container: Box 4, Folder 1

    • Description: #403 Ten (?) million mark
      Dates: 1923
    • Description: #404 100 Reichs bank note
      Dates: April 21, 1903
    • Description: #405A 1000 mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #405B 1000 mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #405C 1000 mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #406 50,000 mark
      Dates: 1922
    • Description: #407A 100 mark
      Dates: November 1920
    • Description: #407B 100 mark
      Dates: November 1920
    • Description: #408A 20 Millonen Mark
      Dates: 1923
    • Description: #408B 20 Millonen Mark
      Dates: 1923
  • #409-418

    Container: Box 4, Folder 2

    • Description: #409 Bon un Franc
      Dates: 1916
    • Description: #410 Cinq Francs

      Banque De L'Algere

    • Description: #411 Dix Franc
    • Description: #412 1 dollar

      Bank of Hudson

      Dates: 1881
    • Description: #413 (I have no idea)
      Dates: 1898
    • Description: #414 Cartas (?) country

      75

      Dates: 1921
    • Description: #415 Strathmore script
    • Description: #416 The Greenbriar and cottages letterhead
    • Description: #417 Old Boston Importers letterhead
    • Description: #418 Witherspoon Company Limited letterhead
  • #419-426C

    Container: Box 4, Folder 3

    • Description: #419 Stehli Silk Corporation
    • Description: #420 Strathmore writing
    • Description: #421 Strathmore Carrilion
    • Description: #422 Strathmore Envoy
    • Description: #423 Strathmore Vesper
    • Description: #424 Strathmore Script
    • Description: #425 Small seam marks
    • Description: #426A Tree
    • Description: #426B Tree
    • Description: #426C Tree
  • #427-436

    Container: Box 4, Folder 4

    • Description: #427 United States Government Ration paper

      large

    • Description: #428 "Allied Authority" repeated
    • Description: #429 Sample Check

      USL Battery Corporation

    • Description: #430 Greenbac-protod
    • Description: #431 ABC system
    • Description: #432 Limited Editions Club Inc.

      check for $63.00

    • Description: #433 Guarenty Trust Company of New York
    • Description: #434 "Screen laid" small
    • Description: #435 Press roll laid
    • Description: #436 Gray/blue

      "Frankfurt"?

  • #437-445

    Container: Box 4, Folder 5

    • Description: 437A Beige etc.
    • Description: 437B Beige etc.
    • Description: #438 Photo needed
    • Description: #439 Need photo
    • Description: #440 NP
    • Description: #441 JJ Head

      NP

    • Description: #442 NP

      (dots)

    • Description: #443 "Last year's table of contents"
    • Description: #444 NP
    • Description: #445 NP
  • 446-455

    Container: Box 4, Folder 6

    • Description: #446 NP
    • Description: #447 NP
    • Description: #448 NP
    • Description: #449 NP
    • Description: #450 NP
    • Description: #451 NP
    • Description: #452 NP
    • Description: #453 NP
    • Description: #454 NP
    • Description: #455 NP
  • 456-465

    Container: Box 4, Folder 7

    • Description: #456 NP
    • Description: #457 NP
    • Description: #458 NP
    • Description: #459 NP
    • Description: #460 NP
    • Description: #461 NP
    • Description: #462 NP
    • Description: #463 Handwritten ledger
      Dates: from August 31, 1812
    • Description: #464 Laid

      (small)

    • Description: #465 Delta
  • 466-475A

    Container: Box 4, Folder 8

    • Description: #466 Large circle
    • Description: #467 Small (Stampford research laboratories) with percent of makeup
    • Description: #468 "The Only Safe Water is Sterilized Water"
    • Description: #469 The National Cyclopedia of American Biography

      letter about Article about Mrs. Davidsons father

      Dates: October 14, 1941
    • Description: #470 The Leading Fire Insurance Company of America

      Hayford, Connecticut

    • Description: #471 Orange nest paper

      Hardware

    • Description: #472 The Hub of the Motor World

      ACA Ltd

    • Description: #473 The … Hays …
    • Description: #474 "Bachrach Inc. Photographs of Distinction" letterhead

      Notification about photographing all members; Bachrach watermark

    • Description: #475A Horses standing upon a carriage
  • #475B-484

    Container: Box 4, Folder 9

    • Description: #475B Horses standing upon a carriage
    • Description: #476 Rhodes Products

      Our Service Spans the Sea; James H. Rhodes and Company; 162 West Kinzie Street, Chicago, Illinois; 81 Front Street, New York City

    • Description: #477 The Ideal E and M Power Apparatus Trademark
    • Description: #478 "Editor and Publisher" letterhead

      letter about subscription to Editor and Publisher

      Dates: November 1, 1943
    • Description: #479 The Kahlenberg Laboratories Incorporated
    • Description: #480 Koppers Company letterhead

      letter about enclosed material

      Dates: January 18, 1940
    • Description: #481 National Cotton Council of America letterhead

      watermark; Westons Cotton Bond/rag content

    • Description: #482 "Gulf Oil Corporation" letterhead

      about a gift to P.B. Davidson for tests

      Dates: February 7, 1939
    • Description: #483 Automobile Insurance Agency of America

      about auto insurance renewal; AAA watermark

      Dates: July 9, 1962
    • Description: #484 Strathmore Parchment
      Dates: 1931
  • 485-494

    Container: Box 4, Folder 10

    • Description: #485 Bandage pattern
    • Description: #486 NP
    • Description: #487 NP
    • Description: #488 Fairfield
    • Description: #489 Strathmore Embassy Text

      pale green

    • Description: #490 Strathmore Artlaid
    • Description: #491 Strathmore Charcoal
    • Description: #492 Strathmore Broadcaster
    • Description: #493 Alexandra
    • Description: #494 Strathmore Book
  • #495A-501C

    Container: Box 4, Folder 11

    • Description: #495A Strathmore Pastelle
    • Description: #495B Strathmore Pastelle
    • Description: #496 Old Stratford
    • Description: #497 Strathmore Saxon

      Made in USA

    • Description: #498 Strathmore Permanent
    • Description: #499 Strathmore olde laid
    • Description: #500 Strathmore Embassy Text

      Crème

    • Description: #501A Strathmore All Rag Book
    • Description: #501B Strathmore All Rag Book
    • Description: #501C Strathmore All Rag Book
  • #502-511

    Container: Box 4, Folder 12

    • Description: #502 Strathmore Text
    • Description: #503 Strathmore Wayside Text
    • Description: #504 Strathmore Artlaid

      (small)

    • Description: #505 Strathmore Text

      "The Erskine Hewitt…"

    • Description: #506 Saxon Bond
    • Description: #507 Andrew Jackson Bond

      rag content

    • Description: #508 "Old Colony Envelope Company" receipt for 1 quart gum

      Blandford Bond

    • Description: #509 Norida Products Inc. letterhead

      Strathmore Bond

    • Description: #510 Packard Motor Car Company of New York

      letterhead; Strathmore Parchment

    • Description: #511 Strathmore

      Woronco Bond

  • #512-521

    Container: Box 4, Folder 13

    • Description: #512 Strathmore Parchment
      Dates: 1931
    • Description: #513 Strathmore Courier
    • Description: #514 The Danish Bond
      Dates: 1930
    • Description: #515 Highway Bond
    • Description: #516 [blank]
    • Description: #517 Blandford Bond
    • Description: #518 Alexandra Bond
    • Description: #519 Capital Parchment
    • Description: #520 Strathoque Bond

      "Broadway Limited/Pennsylvania Railroad"

    • Description: #521 Strathmore Parchment
  • #522-530

    Container: Box 4, Folder 14

    • Description: #522 Strathmore Bond Opaque
    • Description: #523 MacLean and Croke Incorporated

      letterhead; Strathmore Alexandra Brilliant

    • Description: #524 Royeroft
    • Description: #525 Cross symbol
    • Description: #526A 1 (harp symbol) L
    • Description: #526B "Fortune" watermark

      cut article about gramophones

    • Description: #527 Sheet music for "We're Bonding Over the Rippling…"

      handwritten; watermark KS and CO; Imperia

    • Description: #528 The Prairie
    • Description: #529 The LEC Plutarch
    • Description: #530 [circle with infinity symbol inside atop a ladder]
  • #531-540

    Container: Box 4, Folder 15

    • Description: #531 [loops]
    • Description: #532 Carmen
    • Description: #533 Mozart

      sheet music

    • Description: #534 Mill 630

      pretzel shape

    • Description: #535 Winterbourne
    • Description: #536 Avantages de sciences

      sheet

    • Description: #537 Heraldic sign
    • Description: #538 Small sheet

      grape watermark

    • Description: #539 Charles I
    • Description: #540 Bishopsloke
  • #541-550

    Container: Box 4, Folder 16

    • Description: #541 Alverskote (?)
    • Description: #542 Skummerstoke

      yellow paper

    • Description: #543 Winterstoke

      (gray paper)

    • Description: #544 Laverstoke, pale blue paper

      Harrison Elliot letterhead; letter about paper samples

      Dates: May 11, 1943
    • Description: #545 Bachelor Hand Made England
    • Description: #546 Little Chart England
    • Description: #547 Crown and scepter in a book

      English Kelmscott

    • Description: #548 Cross in circle
    • Description: #549 Berestoke
    • Description: #550 Freefolk
  • #551-560

    Container: Box 4, Folder 17

    • Description: #551 Alverstoke/swords crossed
    • Description: #552 Bull symbol watermark
    • Description: #553 letter to Paul B. Davidson about stamps and life
      Dates: April 14, 1955
    • Description: #554 Maidstone paper
    • Description: #555 Gohrsmuhle

      envelope

    • Description: #556 Handgjord Biljett Lesbo
    • Description: #557 Crown watermark
    • Description: #558 Paper from Catalunya, Spain

      with image of Spanish paper makers

    • Description: #559 Praga
    • Description: #560 Handgjord Post

      Lessebo

  • #561-570

    Container: Box 4, Folder 18

    • Description: #561 Glaslan paper

      Arches, France

    • Description: #562 Glaslan
    • Description: #563 Panckoucke
    • Description: #564 Les Bibliophiles
    • Description: #565 BFK
    • Description: #566 Marais, France
    • Description: #567 Mexandro Japan

      event listing

    • Description: #568 Saxon Japan
    • Description: #569 Alexandra Japan
    • Description: #570 TNF insignia
  • #571-580

    Container: Box 4, Folder 19

    • Description: #571 TNF all rag

      with globe mark

    • Description: #572 Man on a globe with a hankie
    • Description: #573 Van Gelder Zunten
    • Description: #574 P and Co

      Heelsum; Holland

    • Description: #575 Van Gelder Zonen Holland
    • Description: #576 Green paper

      travel in Europe

    • Description: #577 Green paper

      Strathmore Grandee

    • Description: #578 Orange paper

      Strathmore Grander

    • Description: #579 Dokken Nelson letterhead

      Fox River Laid

    • Description: #580 Howard Clark wiring contractor letterhead

      Adirondack Bond watermark

  • #581-590

    Container: Box 4, Folder 20

    • Description: #581 Tax bond for Juneau County
      Dates: May 20, 1987
    • Description: #582 The Carborndum Company letterhead and watermark
    • Description: #583 Tom Benton-Tom Sawyer
    • Description: #584 Goethe
    • Description: #585 Kelmscott handmade paper

      description

    • Description: #586 Anvil

      British handmade

    • Description: #587 Green small handmade
    • Description: #588 The Franklin Institute

      Philadelphia

      Dates: 1938
    • Description: #589 Swimsuits letterhead

      teal paper; Howard bond

    • Description: #590 PASCO Mills Mark

      graph paper

  • #591-600

    Container: Box 4, Folder 21

    • Description: #591 Man leaning to seated woman

      watermark by Plank

    • Description: #592 Howard Mimeograph
    • Description: #593 Williams Worthington and Ames

      letterhead

    • Description: #594 Howard Laid Bond
    • Description: #595 Permanized Redemption Bond

      Rag Content

    • Description: #596 Durucator Copy Paper
    • Description: #597 California Bond
    • Description: #598 Cronicon U.S.A.
    • Description: #599 [unknown]
    • Description: #600 Hammermill, Mimeo Bond, made in U.S.A.
  • #601-610

    Container: Box 4, Folder 22

    • Description: #601 This is How a New World is Created
    • Description: #602 Crown and Sceptre
    • Description: #603 Mauve handmade
    • Description: #604 Bedtine time, min – 180 minutes

      [7 samples; 0-180 minutes]

    • Description: #605 Letter

      My Dear Emma…

      Dates: November 1, 1853
    • Description: #606 Merchant Marine Rest Center, paper samples
    • Description: #607 Strathmore Laboratory
    • Description: #608 Letter

      personal, Dr. P. Davidson

      Dates: January 9, 1963
    • Description: #609 Ecusta Paper Corporation
    • Description: #610 "Rune of Hospitality"

      fiberous paper

  • #611-618A

    Container: Box 4, Folder 23

    • Description: #611 Taupe paper
    • Description: #612A NP
    • Description: #612B NP
    • Description: #612C NP
    • Description: #613 NP
    • Description: #614 NP
    • Description: #615 NP
    • Description: #616 Fiberous tissue-like paper
    • Description: #617 "Work of Mountain House Press…"
    • Description: #618A Strathmore Laboratory

      Thistle

  • #618B-626

    Container: Box 5, Folder 1

    • Description: #618B Strathmore Laboratory_

      Thistle

    • Description: #618C Strathmore Laboratory

      Thistle

    • Description: #619 "St. Christophers Hospital for Children" letterhead

      letterhead about enclosed watermarks

      Dates: March 21, 1962
    • Description: #620 Handwritten letter

      about handmarks

      Dates: from December 23, 1960
    • Description: #621 "In We? You May Have Peace"

      with star

    • Description: #622 "Old Papermaking in China and Japan…"
    • Description: #623 Orange paper small?
    • Description: #624 long paper
      Dates: 1818
    • Description: #625 Lavender paper
    • Description: #626 Shogun Japanese paper
  • #627-635

    Container: Box 5, Folder 2

    • Description: #627 The Stevens Nelson Paper Corporation letterhead

      ; price list for papers

      Dates: May 7, 1940
    • Description: #628 "The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation"

      receipt for paper

    • Description: #629 Small

      np

    • Description: #630 Dard Hunter

      letter about paper making books

    • Description: #631 Large sheet, gray

      sample of Charles I paper

    • Description: #632 Olive green small sample

      from Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation

    • Description: #633A NP
    • Description: #633B NP
    • Description: #634 NP
    • Description: #635 Tan paper

      NP

  • #636-643

    Container: Box 5, Folder 3

    • Description: #636 Bristol printed in USA
    • Description: #637 Bay Path
    • Description: #638 NP
    • Description: #639 Letter

      [T.] Daniel; Battalion enrollments

      Dates: April 11, 1776
    • Description: #640 Letterhead

      Crafthouse, Williamsburg, Virginia; brochures

      Dates: October 20, 1944
    • Description: #641 envelope

      Strathmore Paper Company

    • Description: #642 Stamps

      Hong Kong 10 cents, Deutrches Reich 5 milliones, Deutrches Reich 50

    • Description: #643 Probably early cylinder machine
  • #644-653

    Container: Box 5, Folder 4

    • Description: #644 [Black paper with squares cut out]
    • Description: #645 William Rittenhouse watermarks
    • Description: #646 The most prominent watermarks of the Gutenberg 42 line Bible
    • Description: #647 15th century watermark of Jesus
    • Description: #648 Willcox watermark
    • Description: #649 [Bull with cross and snake]
    • Description: #650 The Klaas Rittenhouse watermark
    • Description: #651 Second Rittenhouse paper mill watermark
    • Description: #652 Watermark of Willcox Mill
    • Description: #653 First papermarks appeared in Italy in latter part of 13th century
  • #654-663

    Container: Box 5, Folder 5

    • Description: #654 [Bull]
    • Description: #655 From a Dutch Bible printed in 1618-1619 owned by Bovee
    • Description: #656 1399 French
    • Description: #657 [15th century watermark of Jesus]
    • Description: #658 [Bulls]
    • Description: #659 Zion Efrata
    • Description: #660 4, WR
    • Description: #661 [The most prominent watermarks of the Gutenberg 42 line Bible; head with star on crown]
    • Description: #662 [Bulls]
    • Description: #663 [Urns, hands, jester]
  • #664-671

    Container: Box 5, Folder 6

    • Description: #664 [Crosses, horns]
    • Description: #665 [Heraldic symbol]
    • Description: #666A [Soft finish book paper]
    • Description: #666B [Soft finish book paper]
    • Description: #666C [Soft finish book paper]
    • Description: #667 Merle J. Fairbanks business card
    • Description: #668 Stein, Hall and Company, Inc. letterhead
      Dates: July 5, 1943
    • Description: #669 Carl N. Davidson letterhead, Wisconsin

      "Land of Lakes" watermark

    • Description: #670 [Thomas Jefferson 3 cents U.S. postage stamp]
    • Description: #671 [U.S. postage 3 cents]
  • #672-681

    Container: Box 5, Folder 7

    • Description: #672 [Educo Bond]
    • Description: #673 Stiria, page 549

      Sclavonia, Croatia, Bofina, cum Dalmatiae parte, page 550

    • Description: #674 Daniae Tabvla, page 101

      Daniae Terria Tabvla, in qua Slefvicenfis Ducatus pars and Holfatia, page 144

    • Description: #675 Descripto Hispaniae, page 143

      Descripto Hispaniae, page 144

    • Description: #676 Dard Hunter
    • Description: #677 Seier Poste
    • Description: #678 Phoenix Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut
    • Description: #679 Diana Paper
    • Description: #680 Rrnauer Deimatost
    • Description: #681 P. Wulff, Kjobentravn
  • #682-691

    Container: Box 5, Folder 8

    • Description: #682 Lagle-A Acawam Bond, 100 percent rag U.S.A.
    • Description: #683 The Daniel Hayes Company
    • Description: #684 Massachusetts Mutual
    • Description: #685 The Carborndum Company letterhead and watermark

      Dear Miss Portman

      Dates: March 21, 1942
    • Description: #686 Finest Quality Bond

      Rag Content; Professional Printing Company

    • Description: #687 Lions International
    • Description: #688 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company letterhead
    • Description: #689 Mr. Robert R. Fulton letter

      the Carborndum Company watermark

      Dates: June 15, 1938
    • Description: #690 The Carborndum Company watermark
    • Description: #691 The Philistine
  • #692-701

    Container: Box 5, Folder 9

    • Description: #692 Mozart
    • Description: #693 Strathmore

      Highway Bond; Rag Content U.S.A.

    • Description: #694 Shadows
    • Description: #695 Some of the Prominent Concerns that have used Shado-craft Bonds
    • Description: #696 Shado-craft Superfine

      Clear White; Satin Finish

    • Description: #697 Shado-craft Bond

      Grade C; High White

    • Description: #698 Greenbac-protod
    • Description: #699 Greenbac-protod
    • Description: #700 Gulf Oil Corporation letterhead
    • Description: #701 Wells Fargo Union

      Strathmore Quality

  • #702-711

    Container: Box 5, Folder 10

    • Description: #702 University of Pittsburg
      Dates: 1787
    • Description: #703 Strathopaque Bond

      Rag Content U.S.A.

    • Description: #704 The Art Directors Club of Chicago letterhead
    • Description: #705 Dr. P.B. Davidson from Geo. D. Beal
    • Description: #706 Letter, Mr. Paul D. Davidson

      discussing paper samples

      Dates: January 23, 1948
    • Description: #707 Lugano Laid
    • Description: #708 Fairfield "A"
    • Description: #709 Fairfield "B"
    • Description: #710 Strathmore U.S.A.
    • Description: #711 Strathmore
  • #712-720

    Container: Box 5, Folder 11

    • Description: #712 [Unknown]
    • Description: #713 [Unknown]
    • Description: #714 [Unknown]
    • Description: #715 [Unknown]
    • Description: #716 [Unknown]
    • Description: #717 [Unknown]
    • Description: #718 [Unknown]
    • Description: #719 [Unknown]
    • Description: #720 [Unknown]
    • Description: #721 Estado Do Rio Grande Do Norte

      Estados Unidos Do Brazil

  • #722-726

    Container: Box 5, Folder 12

    • Description: #722 Van Gelder

      Japan Paper Company

    • Description: #723 Strathmore Staple Papers
    • Description: #724 Keith Paper Company
    • Description: #725 Envelope
    • Description: #726 Envelope

      Word

  • #727

    Container: Box 5, Folder 13

    • Description: #727 Watermark Scrapbook
  • #728

    Container: Box 5, Folder 14

    • Description: #728 Watermarks Postage Stamps
  • #729

    Container: Box 5, Folder 15

    • Description: #729 Framed watermark
  • Description: History of Watermark
    Container: Box 5, Folder 16
  • Description: History of Watermark
    Container: Box 5, Folder 17
  • Description: History of Watermark
    Container: Box 5, Folder 18
  • Description: History of Watermark
    Container: Box 5, Folder 19
  • Description: Wooden papermaking screen
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: Papermaking screen
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: Papermaking screen
    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: Waterpress screen
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: Strathmore waterpress screen
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5

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