- CA THT ReadStone-1998.03.36
- Item
- [after 1900]
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are a group of advertisements and flyers for Read Stone Company products.
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Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are a group of advertisements and flyers for Read Stone Company products.
Grindstone Industry Museum Display
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item contains a group of photographs showing the museum set up by Herbert Read in Marshlands Inn, Sackville, NB to display grindstone industry artifacts.
Grindstone Production Newspaper Article
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a photocopy of a front page newspaper spread from the St. John Standard discussing the Read family, the grindstone business, the quarry at Stonehaven and related topics.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a portrait photograph of Henry C. Read taken by the Notman & Campbell Studio of Boston.
Illustration of Company Property and Product
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are two printed images of work sites for grindstone and one illustration of a Joseph Read & Co. “red center” grindstone.
Illustrations of Mounted Grindstone
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are twenty printed drawings of grindstones place on various styles of mounts.
Illustrations of Scythe Stones
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are 16 printed drawings of scythe stone products of the Read Stone Co.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a guestbook containing the signatures of patrons to the Marshlands Inn between 1981 and 1987.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are two samples of Joseph Read & Co. stationary including a piece of an invoice, and one letterhead for The Read Stone Co. Ltd.
First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.