2 advertisements, in Lynchburg Business Directory: 1. H.S. Whittemore & Brother [advertisement for agricultural implements, showing a plow]; 2. Morgan Curle & Burnham's Planing and Moulding Mill, and Sash, Blind & Door Manufactory – Antique Wall Art
![2 advertisements, in Lynchburg Business Directory: 1. H.S. Whittemore & Brother [advertisement for agricultural implements, showing a plow]; 2. Morgan Curle & Burnham's Planing and Moulding Mill, and Sash, Blind & Door Manufactory, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c986f9aee5c2-L.webp)
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A window into the past: 2 advertisements, in Lynchburg Business Directory: 1. H.S. Whittemore & Brother [advertisement for agricultural implements, showing a plow]; 2. Morgan Curle & Burnham's Planing and Moulding Mill, and Sash, Blind & Door Manufactory, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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2 advertisements, in Lynchburg Business Directory: 1. H.S. Whittemore & Brother [advertisement for agricultural implements, showing a plow]; 2. Morgan Curle & Burnham's Planing and Moulding Mill, and Sash, Blind & Door Manufactory
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The two advertisements on this card stand out for their pairing: one promotes H.S. Whittemore & Brother's agricultural implements, illustrated with a plow, and the other advertises Morgan Curle & Burnham's planing and moulding mill, along with its sash, blind, and door works. Both ran in the Lynchburg Business Directory, a town directory of the mid-nineteenth century, when local firms bought small wood-engraved blocks to stand out on a printed page. Lynchburg, on the James River in central Virginia, was a milling and trade center, so ads like these show how farm tools and sawn lumber moved through the town's economy. The engravings were later reused in Richard Edwards' *Statistical Gazette of Virginia*, which is why they appear in the Library of Congress collection.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Richard Edwards, Statistical Gazette of Virginia. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch.--Misc.; Saw & planing mills; Farm machinery; Ads--Misc.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 877 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133037 |
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