Bookplate for Bay City Public Library
1925 / Frances Fitch
Collection: The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
A pictorial-style institutional bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a multi-line border. The central image is of a landscape with trees and bushes in the foreground, and a sailing ship in the midground. In the background at the right is what appears to be a building with tall smokestacks from which smoke is rising. This image is framed in a circle surrounded by a black square. Beneath is the a rectangular border around the text "Bay City Public Library Established ~~1869." The text is flanked by two lit oil lamps with small scroll paintings above them.
~ Frances Fitch , “Bookplate for Bay City Public Library,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed December 7, 2024, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/1859.
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Title
Bookplate for Bay City Public Library
Subject
Bookplates
Description
A pictorial-style institutional bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a multi-line border. The central image is of a landscape with trees and bushes in the foreground, and a sailing ship in the midground. In the background at the right is what appears to be a building with tall smokestacks from which smoke is rising. This image is framed in a circle surrounded by a black square. Beneath is the a rectangular border around the text "Bay City Public Library Established ~~1869." The text is flanked by two lit oil lamps with small scroll paintings above them.
Creator
Frances Fitch
Source
The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
Publisher
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
1925
Contributor
Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
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Format
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
eng
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PPL-MS: 1925.1.014
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
4 and ¼”H x 3 and ¼”W