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| New England Old and New 1620-1920 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  New England Old and New 1620-1920 Northeast Harbor Library Description: A brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of Promise. Published by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, commemorating the Tercentenary of the First Landing at Plymouth in 1620 (MCMXX). | |
| Plymouth Quadrangle, New Hampshire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Plymouth Quadrangle, New Hampshire Northeast Harbor Library Description: One of a series of topographical maps issued by the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. State of New Hampshire, Highway Department, Plymouth Quadrangle (N43.45/W71.30). Scale 1: 62 500. Topography by R. L. McCammon and E. V. Holloway. Culture and drainage in part compiled from aerial photographs taken by Air Corps, U.S. Army. | |
| Hyde Chart of Wild Flowers Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Hyde Chart of Wild Flowers Northeast Harbor Library Description: Chart I. Issued by the New England Wild Flower Society Inc., Horticultural Hall, Boston, MA. | |
| United States Stamp - Pilgrim Tercentenary Stamp - Landing of the Pilgrims - 1620-1920 - Issued December 21, 1920 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  United States Stamp - Pilgrim Tercentenary Stamp - Landing of the Pilgrims - 1620-1920 - Issued December 21, 1920 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Engraved postage stamp Vessel: Pilgrim Shallop - Shallop Title: Pilgrim Tercentenary 1620-1920 – Landing of the Pilgrims Scott Cat. Number: 549 Subject: Pilgrim Landing 1620 Media: Flat plate engraving Designer: Huston - Clair Aubrey Huston (1857-1938) Design Inspiration - art: White – Edwin White (1817-1877) Design Inspiration – engraving: Burt – Charles Kennedy Burt (1823-1892) Vignette Engraver: Smillie – George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924) Letter Engraver: Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959) Frame Engraver: Louis Sartain Schofield (1868-1938) Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Carmine Rose Size: 1” x 1.25” Country: United States Postage Value: 2 cents Issue Series: 2nd in the Pilgrim Tercentennial Series. Issue Origin: The Pilgrim Tercentennial was a national celebration from December 1920 to the summer of 1921. Issue Date: December 21, 1920 Issue Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts Issue Size: 196,037,327 See Also: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885) [show more] |
| Charles Fletcher Dole Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Charles Fletcher Dole Southwest Harbor Public Library |