Advertising | Fitchburg Historical Society

2009.026.039 - booklet

Advertising folder of Putnam Machine Company for Car Wheel Boring Machines. Contains photos, Specifications, and explanations.

Record Type: Archive

2009.026.040 - booklet

Advertising folder of Putnam Machine Works for Car Wheel Boring Machines. Contains photos, Specifications, and explanations.

Record Type: Archive

2013.007.002 - Newspaper

Complete copy of the Montchusett Review for March 9, 1966 This newspaper was published weekly by George Chatfield (WFGM Radio Station) Local stories and advertising for local businesses.

Record Type: Archive

2015.101.001 - Blotter

Campaign advertisement on the reverse side of a blotter for Victor E. Erickson, Sr. running for Ward 4 Councilor. Includes his photo and his address as 39 Oxford Street, Fitchburg, MA. According to extensive information attached to the Deed of Gift, written by the donor, Erickson never won an election, but ran for office several times.

Record Type: Archive

2017.056.022 - Booklet

Bicentennial almanac for Fitchburg and Leominster published by the Worcester North Savings Institution. Variety of information including home buying and maintenance, banks and financing; health and safety information, food and nutrition, etc. Many advertisement for local businesses.

Record Type: Archive

2017.063.019 - Booklet

A small booklet from the Albert E. Vincellette collection titled: Leominster Business Souvenir and Memorandum. It notes the Publisher as Kate E. Nichols, printed by Sentinel Job Print in Fitchburg in 1893, and price 15 cents. The booklet has many advertising prints from businesses in both Fitchburg and Leominster and has prints of historic buildings and the businesses. It also has railroad schedules, a listing of streets, and locations of st...

Record Type: Archive

2022.024.001 - Newspaper

A collection of Fitchburg Sentinels from the year 1854. The dates of the Sentinels include: Friday, January 13, 1854 Vol. XVI No. 2 then skips to: Friday, March 10, 1854 Vol. XVI No. 10 through Friday, December 29, 1854 Vol. XVI No. 52 with some editions missing. The Fitchburg Sentinel was founded by John Garfield in 1838, publishing Vol. 1 in that year. By 1854 the Sentinel, Vol. XVI, was published by brothers Elisha a...

Record Type: Archive

2023.001.004 - Negative, Film

A collection of black and white negatives taken in the early 1900's from Photographer Darius Saucier. There are several photos from Leominster including: Rialto Theatre, Plymouth Theatre, a group of Theatre Ushers, a Theatre advertising truck with loudspeakers, and a Theatre advertising wagon pulled by a car.

Record Type: Photo