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“I Take Up My Pen”: Lester Park & Bro., 1912

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This is the company that made the, um, incomparable (yeah, that’s the word we’ll use) movie Corianton: An Unholy Love in 1931. In 1916, they were the official motion picture photographers of the Beehive Girls. And in 1912, they used this letterhead.  It’s printed a pale lime green:

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And here I’ve darkened it, unfortunately completely changing the color, so that you can read it it:

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8 thoughts on ““I Take Up My Pen”: Lester Park & Bro., 1912”

  2. Not so famous, eh?

    Entertainers — actors, singers, vaudeville, and early film producers — took their acts on the road, often under the management of a company that arranged for dates and theaters, and sent someone ahead of the acts to post advertising. These were “circuits” (same idea as the old Methodist “circuit riders”). I never heard of the “famous” Pumpkin Vine, but I assume that was one of these management companies.

  3. I’m curious about what “Both Phones” means. It sounds as if they’re saying that there are just two phones in SLC in 1916, and they can be reached on both of them.

  4. There were two phone systems, Wasatch and, um, um, I forget the other — Independent, maybe? or I may have my eras wrong. Your number depended on which system you were connected to. I’m not sure how the systems worked together, if they did — maybe that’s something you want to dig out.

    In any case, I think the letterhead is telling us that the Park Bros. could be reached through either phone system.

  5. Interesting. I had no idea. I suppose you just picked up your phone and asked the operator to connect you to Lester Park & Bro. (Now we just tell our smartphones to do that–we’ve come full circle, almost.)

  7. Sorry, Tod, I’ve necessarily been very careful to remove any trace of the letter that was written on any posted letterhead, and giving any sort of citation would undo that necessary precaution.

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