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