Carter's ink – Vintage Print
![Carter's ink, Hartford : Kellogg & Bulkeley Co., [189-] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9d085926cf3f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Carter's ink, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This color poster, titled "Carter's ink," advertises a writing ink through a chromolithograph printed by Kellogg & Bulkeley Co. of Hartford, Connecticut, a firm that produced many colorful commercial prints in the late 1800s. The catalog gives the date as "[189-]," meaning the printer's year is uncertain but falls somewhere in the 1890s, and the record itself is an unverified caption-card transcription. In that period, manufacturers relied on eye-catching posters and trade cards to reach shopkeepers, schoolchildren, and office workers who wrote by pen every day. Such advertisements show how writing was woven into everyday commerce and how advertisers used color lithography to sell a small, familiar product.
| Created / published | Hartford : Kellogg & Bulkeley Co., [189-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 61 x 89 cm. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172510 |
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