Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-07-12
tine FEllClANA SENTINEL.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURES FOR ALL


rf George Stinson & Co., OF Port.
land. Maine, moves steadily on the
even tenor Of its way, apparently
rot feeling the dull times. During
the year 1878 they sold over -Four
Million pictures Of all descriptions.
':hey publish every description OF
fine pictures. and the prices range
from ten cents upwards 10 twenty
collars per copy. Their corres-
rondence for this largo business is
immenee-thcy receive, on ON aver.
age, over one thousand letters per
day. Messrs. Stinson & Co. pub
sish only the better class Of pictures.
and it is we'll known that anything
woming from this reliable house is
.,f standard merit. We have just
received copies Of four very fee
steel engravings, which they have
just brouAgt out. The plates were
engraved in LONDON. at an expense
nf four thousand pounds sterling.
"r twenty thousand dollars, to which
:rca: sum must be added the GUS
,omo duty Of twenty-five per: cent
ON account Of their being imported
into the United STATES. These en-
cravings are after paintings by
great modern masters of art. and
she artists who engraved the plates
stand in tho front rank of the
worlds renowned engravcrs.
tits believed, and generally con-
cedcd, that these engrevings make
up tho finest aud most elegant get
Of works of high art ever brought
out BY American publishers. This
en!erprising firm, though many
years in tho Art Publishing busi-
ness, have not grown old and un-
progressive. but on tho other hand
WA xes improvement and progress
year by year, giving the people
better and better pictures for the
xau,e or less money. They may,
VIC feel sure, fairly claim to stard
at the head Of the Art Publishing
business in America. We can on
" understand the clossal proper
lions their trade has assumed by
remembering that this is a great
and mighty nation Of nearly City
million people. We cannot better
illustrate the magnitude of their
business than to state the amount
of money paid by them for postage
stamps during the years 1876, ST.,
md 1878. We have the figures
direct from the firm. or we should
think there was some error. In
1876, they paid for postage $685..
l04 90. In 1877, they paid for
hostage $37 ,26S.76. In 1878 the
amount Of money that they paid for
hostage stamps was simply enor-
mous-a little over $5O,000.0O.
Stinson & Co. stand among the
largest and most judicious adv erti-'
~ers il the country. ana short
time since paid in single day
s24 100000 in cash on a contract
Tor advertising. They employ
agents everywhere throughout the
United States aud Dominion Of
Canada for the sale of their pictures
by subscription-we call attention
to their advertisement for agents in
another column. Those who need
pleasant profitable work, should
correspond with them.
Besides paying the largest
amounts Of postage stated above.
their express ard freight bills are
onormous-only small orders are
sent by mail, the larger Being sent
by express and freight. American
homes should be made beautiful by
refined works Of art, and prices for
really meritorious pictures are now
20 low that there can be no excuse
for the walls to remain gloomy,
unadorncd and checrless, Ameri-