Photos are not to scale, but some photos with a ruler: Here

10/6/13

St. Louis Art Co.


J. J. Gillespie & Co.


W. V. Ogden



Mass. Avenue, but where? Google produces a lot of hits for Indianapolis, followed by Boson, though Indy seems to refer to their street as "Mass. Avenue".

Dayton's, Marshall Field's, Hudson's


Another Dayton's, see previous post, but the company now having acquired Marshall Fields, Chicago, and Hudson's, Minneapolis?

A commenter informs me that Hudson's was from Detroit. The history of the big, central city department stores, is quite interesting, and how the survivors bought up their former rivals, ... and now it's Target and Macy's I believe, with Sears a part of K-Mart.



Yes, Detroit. This label from the Klinkenborg Collection.

9/1/13

Arthur Vokins and J. & W. Vokins

Another example of a Vokins label, this one is slightly earlier than the Arthur Vokins label, but both are variations of the same company.


Below originally posted on 16th August 2012


Arthur Vokins (1839-1913), lots of information on earlier Vokins art and frame making businesses on the National Portrait Gallery resource.

8/29/13

M & B Bartington


Information on this family of 19th Century framemakers is on the National Portrait Gallery website.