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Title
Specimens of engraved hotel bill heads, business cards, etc., 1837?-1840? / William Moffitt
Creator
William Moffitt, 1802-1874
Call number
PXB 411
Level of description
fonds
Date

1837-1840
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Prints
Reference code
845925
Physical Description
74 ephemera items - engraved cards - various sizes
Scope and Content
The cards are pasted down on boards; these are joined to form a concertined volume between Japanese lacquered papier mache covers.
Contents list filed with collection.
Finding Aids
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 581 -
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
General note

The plates for some of the engravings are filed at R 178.
Other copies of plates of engravings are filed at PXA 368.
An article about this collection by James Broadbent (published at 'Australasian Antique Collector', 1980) is filed at PXn 581.
Subject
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Topic
billheads
business cards
hotels & taverns
bookbindings

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