Gibsboro white lead color and varnish works.
A trade catalogue issued by John Lucas & Co., proprietors of the Gibsboro White Lead, Color and Varnish Works in Philadelphia, in 1875 for builders and painters seeking paint supplies. The single picture is a wood-engraved view of a large multi-storey factory with a tall chimney and smokestack, set under a bold display typeface title block. A designer might take its dense Victorian lettering hierarchy, with mixed type sizes and ornamental rules, as a model for period advertising layout.
