The Newtown bee., 1879-06-25
Beautiful Pictures For All.

The Great Art Publishing House of George Stinson & Co.,, of Portland, Maine, moves steadily on the even tenor of its way, apparently not feeling the dull times. During the year 1878 they sold over Four Million pictures of all descriptions. They publish every description of fine pictures, and the prices range from ten | cents upwards to twenty dollars per copy. Their correspondence for this large busi- ness is immense; they receive, on an average, over one thousand letters per day. Messrs. Stinson & Co. publish only the better class of pictures and it is well known that anything coming from this reliable house is of standard merit. We have just received copies of four very fine steel engravings. which they have just brought out. The plates were engraved in London, at an expense of four thous- and pounds sterling or twenty thousand dollars, to which great sum must be added the customs duty of twenty-five per cent
 on.account of their being imported into 1 the United States. These engravings are after paintings by great modern masters of art, and the artists who engraved the plates stand in the front rank of the worlds renowned angravers.
 l It IS believed, and generally conceded. that these cngravings make Gp the finest and most elegants set of works of hi ,h art ever brought out by Americas publishers. | This enterprising firm, though many years in the Art Publishing business, have not grown old and unprogressive, but on the other hand make improvement and progress year by year, giving the people better and better pictures for the same or less money. They may, we feel sure, fairly claim to stand at the head of the Art Publishing business ill America. We can only understand the colossal propor- tion their trade has assumed by remem- 1 bering that this is great and mighty ! nation of nearly fifty million people. We 1 cannot better illustrate the magnitude of i their business than to state the amount of money paid by them for postage stamps 1 during the years 1876, 1877, and1S7S We
 have the figures direct from the firm. or we should think there was some error | In 1876, they paid for postage S33, 104 92.
 In 1877, they paid for postage sS7. 26S.76. i In 1878 the amount of money that they paid for postage stamps was simply i enormous-a little over $50, ,00O %. Stin- son < Co. stand among the largest and most iudicous advertisers in the country, and short time since paid ina single day 1 S2l, ,000.00 in cash on contract for adver- i tising. They employ agents everywhere throughout the United States and Domin- ion of Canada for the sale of theirpictures by subscription: we call attentionto their advertisement for agents in another coll umn. Those who need pleasant profitable work, should correspond with them at ohce.
 Besides paying the large amounts of | postage stated above. their express and l freight bills are enormous-onIy small
 orders are sent by mall, the larger being sent by express and freight. American homes should be made beautiful by refined
 works of art. and prices for really meri- torious pictures are now so low that there
 can be no excuse for the walls to remain gloomy, unadorned and cheorless. Amer ican homes should be made beautiful- and the tendency of this will be to make more refined and beautiful the lives of all dw, Hers therein,