Above: George Michael Steinman was one of Lancaster's most prominent businessmen. He operated Steinman Hardware, at the site of today's Pressroom Restaurant, my favorite newspaper-themed restaurant. The restaurant is Here and Here.
George Steinman was half-brother of Andrew Jackson Steinman. In 1866, this A. J. Steinman would be the first Steinman to enter the newspaper business, when he became co-publisher of the Lancaster Intelligencer with Henry Smith.
That one billhead, above, shows that George Steinman purchased some of his printing from the New Era Printing, rather than from his half-brother's Intelligencer Print shop. But perhaps George also purchased printing from his half-brother; George's other billhead and trade cards do not identify the name of the print shop.
The color chromolithography of the trade cards probably was not printed by a Lancaster printer, although the text presumedly was printed here.
________________________________________________________________________
More Horses: 1880 and 1890s Billheads (By Anonymous Lancaster Printers)
Above: Horses abound, here in Lancaster County. Always have. Always will. Amish horses, Mennonite horses, show-ring horses, dressage horses.
Every week, hundreds of Amish and Mennonite horses trot up and down our highways, in placid defiance of the 21st century. Hundreds and hundreds of self-confident horses, pacing neck-and-neck with SUVs and eighteen-wheelers.
Some of my favorite 19th century Lancaster billheads (if it's possible to have favorite billheads) are the 1880s and 90s forms that are printed with equestrian cuts ...often accompanied by overwrought Victorian typography.
Most job printing does not identify the printer, including these horse billheads. So I decided to include these horses here on the New Era page; I assume that some of these forms were printed by the New Era print shop or by the Intelligencer shop.
