Fifty years of progress : a sketch portraying with pen and brush the past and present of a successful business
A 1898 Philadelphia company history published by W. Mann Co. to mark fifty years in the stationery and blank-book trade, aimed at customers and trade readers. Its pictures are halftone photographs of factory machinery and building facades framed by decorative chapter headers in purple and lavender ink, with ornate banners, flourished scrollwork and tinted floral borders a designer could borrow for period title pages and section openers.
