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