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Gift of Jessie Norton-Lazenby, 2021.44.3, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Broadside: G. E. Norton Cider, Bristol
Gift of Jessie Norton-Lazenby, 2021.44.3, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright

Broadside: G. E. Norton Cider, Bristol

PublisherPublished by Gilbert E. Norton American, 1852 - 1926
Datebefore 1926
Mediumpaper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width of frame): 15 5/8 × 9 1/8in. (39.7 × 23.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Jessie Norton-Lazenby
DescriptionFramed broadside and business card for G. E. Norton Cider of Bristol, Connecticut. The broadside text reads, "NOTICE! / I have on hand a quantity of good / CIDER! / for sale / BY THE BARREL OR KEG. / Also, BOTTLED HARRISON CIDER, for / sale by the Dozen. / Call on, or address, / G. E. NORTON,/ BRISTOL, CONN. / FIRST HOUSE NORTH OF COMPOUNCE LAKE. / BRISTOL PRESS STEAM PRINT." The business card text reads, "G. E. NORTON, MANUFACTURER OF / PURE CIDER VINEGAR, / PLAIN AND REFINED CIDER / BRISTOL, CONN."
Object number2021.44.3
InscribedHandwritte in silver ink on backing paper: "The Frame Artisan / Torrington, CT."
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Stencil
    Taylor's
    Son of Temperance.
    Kelloggs & Comstock
    1848-1850
    Sons of Temperance.
    Elijah Chapman Kellogg
    1850-1851
    Sons of Temperance.
    Elijah Chapman Kellogg
    1850-1851
    Gift of the Avon Story Commission, 1980.101.0  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Dorothy J. Anderson
    1980
    Gift of Tasha Caswell, 2016.108.1 © 2016 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Hartford Prints!
    2016
    Gift of Nora Oakes Howard, 2017.41.70, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
    September 1983
    Gift of Jessie Norton-Lazenby, 2021.44.332, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
    Nellie Scattergood Norton
    The Old State House, Hartford
    Richard S. DeLamater
    1873