[Rarebooks] FS: 1920s Mohican Forest Printer ‘Indian Weaving’ Promotional Card

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

1920s Mohican Forest Printer ‘Indian Weaving’ Promotional Card.

An attractive card issued and printed by Joseph C. Duport promoting his 
‘Wigwam’ and announcing that indian weavings were available there. The 
March, 1913 issue of “The American Printer” has a short article about 
Duport and his Westfield, Massachusetts ‘Press in the Forest’, which 
included the hand-built ‘Seneca Wigwam’, in which he installed a small 
portable press, stove, bunks and other accouterments, which was located 
on his property, the ‘Mohican Forest’. Situated on “the main artery of 
travel between Boston and Albany”, “on the summit of an elevation called 
Acquittamang Terrace”, Duport “ordained that the motive of everything 
should be American Indian”.

This card, undoubtedly printed by Duport himself (though probably not at 
the Wigwam, his main printshop was back in town), shows that by the 
1920s he had upgraded the Wigwam to be a part-time store, selling 
“Articles of Indian Weaving”, and inviting visitors- “In the touring 
season be sure and stop off - where the rugged Berkshires come down to 
meet the fertile meadows of the Woronoco Valley”.

In his 1920 anthology, The Best American Humorous Short Stories, editor 
Alexander Jessup notes his regret that he “was unable to obtain a copy 
of Joseph C. Duport's story, The Wedding at Timber Hollow, in time for 
inclusion, to which its merits - as he remembers them - certainly 
entitle it. Mr. Duport, in addition to his literary activities, has 
started an interesting ‘back to Nature’ experiment at Westfield, 
Massachusetts”. Altogether quite politically incorrect, but nonetheless 
charming in that oblivious and enthusiastic 1920s way.

Card. 5.25”x3.25”. Minor soil, light wear. [43901]  $45

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