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    <div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1.5px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #d4af37; margin-bottom: 6px;">Archival Collections</div>
<div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1.5px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #d4af37; margin-bottom: 6px;">Archival Collections</div>
    <div style="font-size: 28px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10px;">Advertising & Ephemera</div>
<div style="font-size: 28px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10px;">Advertising & Commercial Ephemera</div>
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<div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; color: #e2e8f0; max-width: 820px;">Explore more than a century of marketing, promotional artifacts, and printing history from Taylor Brothers, Taylor Instrument Companies, and the Tycos brand—from factory letterheads and national magazine spreads to relief printing blocks and trade novelties.</div>
      Explore more than a century of marketing, promotional artifacts, and printing history from Taylor Brothers, Taylor Instrument Companies, and the Tycos brand—from factory letterheads and national magazine spreads to relief printing blocks and trade novelties.
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    <!-- Category 1: Printing Plates -->
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        <div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Production Artifacts</div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Production Artifacts</div>
        <div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Printing Press Plates]]</div>
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Printing Press Plates]]</div>
        <div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">
<div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">Surviving copper, zinc, and wood-mounted relief blocks used to print catalogs, company letterheads, and founder portraits.</div>
          Surviving copper, zinc, and wood-mounted relief blocks used to print catalogs, company letterheads, and founder portraits.
<div>[[Printing Press Plates|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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        <div>[[Printing Press Plates|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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<span style="background: #e2e8f0; color: #475569; font-size: 10.5px; font-weight: 700; padding: 2px 8px; border-radius: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Coming Soon</span>
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #475569; margin-bottom: 8px;">Letterheads & Stationery</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #64748b; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">Engraved executive correspondence, billing invoices, and factory letterheads from Taylor & Richardson through the Ames Street era.</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #94a3b8;">In Curation</div>
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<span style="background: #e2e8f0; color: #475569; font-size: 10.5px; font-weight: 700; padding: 2px 8px; border-radius: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Coming Soon</span>
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #475569; margin-bottom: 8px;">Print Advertisements</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #64748b; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">National magazine displays, aviation and medical trade journal ads, and Tycos consumer promotions across the 20th century.</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #94a3b8;">In Curation</div>
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        <div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Correspondence</div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Promotional Items</div>
        <div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Letterheads & Stationery]]</div>
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Trade Novelties]]</div>
        <div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">
<div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">Pocket slide rules, trade fair giveaways, commemorative matchbook covers, desk thermometers, and specialty branded merchandise.</div>
          Engraved executive correspondence, billing invoices, and factory letterheads from Taylor & Richardson through the Ames Street era.
<div>[[Trade Novelties|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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        <div>[[Letterheads & Stationery|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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        <div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Print Campaigns</div>
        <div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Print Advertisements]]</div>
        <div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">
          National magazine displays, aviation and medical trade journal ads, and Tycos consumer promotions across the 20th century.
        </div>
        <div>[[Print Advertisements|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 4px;">Contribute to the Ephemera Collection</div>
        <div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #d4af37; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Promotional Items</div>
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        <div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[Trade Novelties & Matchbooks]]</div>
Do you have vintage Taylor Instrument magazine clippings, trade catalog cuts, original letterheads, or promotional novelties? Help us expand the archive by submitting scans or archival photographs.
        <div style="font-size: 13.5px; color: #4a5568; line-height: 1.55; margin-bottom: 16px; flex: 1;">
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          Pocket slide rules, trade fair giveaways, commemorative matchbook covers, desk thermometers, and specialty branded merchandise.
</div>
        </div>
<div style="display: flex; gap: 10px; flex-wrap: wrap;">
        <div>[[Trade Novelties & Matchbooks|'''View Collection →''']]</div>
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[[Category:Advertising & Ephemera]]
[[Category:Advertising]]

Latest revision as of 20:48, 29 October 2026

Archival Collections
Advertising & Commercial Ephemera
Explore more than a century of marketing, promotional artifacts, and printing history from Taylor Brothers, Taylor Instrument Companies, and the Tycos brand—from factory letterheads and national magazine spreads to relief printing blocks and trade novelties.
Production Artifacts
Surviving copper, zinc, and wood-mounted relief blocks used to print catalogs, company letterheads, and founder portraits.

Coming Soon

Letterheads & Stationery
Engraved executive correspondence, billing invoices, and factory letterheads from Taylor & Richardson through the Ames Street era.
In Curation

Coming Soon

Print Advertisements
National magazine displays, aviation and medical trade journal ads, and Tycos consumer promotions across the 20th century.
In Curation
Promotional Items
Pocket slide rules, trade fair giveaways, commemorative matchbook covers, desk thermometers, and specialty branded merchandise.
Contribute to the Ephemera Collection

Do you have vintage Taylor Instrument magazine clippings, trade catalog cuts, original letterheads, or promotional novelties? Help us expand the archive by submitting scans or archival photographs.

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