Tavern signs; historical background. Sign boards from colonial inns and taverns.

Tavern signs; historical background. Sign boards from colonial inns and taverns.

Willow Grove, Pennsylvania State Wide Museum Extension Project, Work Projects Administration, no date but probably in the 1930’s.

38 stapled mimeograph leaves in a card stock cover: 33 colored plates (two more than the collated copy in OCLC ]; the two extra plates not described in the text and not mentioned in the index.

The printing process for the plates and the cover appears to be silkscreen process for the black outlines and a combination of pochoir together with hand coloring. 

Spread Eagle, 1795 --Hancock Tavern, 1636 --Wayside Inn, 1683 --Blue Anchor, 1682 --Traveller's Rest,1820 --Bunch of Grapes, 1658 --King of Prussia, 1709 --Jolly Post Boy, 1680 --Green Dragon, 1695 --Red Lion, 1730 --Bull Tavern, 1734 --Wolfe Tavern, 1762 --Cross Keys, 1745 --Washington Hotel, 1747 --Turk's Head Hotel1747-61 --Beekman Arms, 1700 --Swan Hotel, 1750 --General Greene, 1752 --Beehive, 1760 --Steam Packet, 1765 --The Raleigh, 1735 --Three Crowns Inn, 1771 --Sun Inn, 1758 --W. Tarlton, 1774 --Robert Morris, 1775 --David Bissell's Tavern, 1777 --Harrow Inn, 1785 --Fox Chase Inn,1705 --Eagle Inn, 1796 --Boar's Head, early eighteenth century --Elephant, 1848.

And two plates misnumbered titled Benjamin Wiggin Tavern and Poore Tavern, not mentioned in the OCLC collated copy.