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The Warren Group was so excited to learn that Banker Tradesman had been included in the time capsule that staff members went straight to the archives to find the company’s own copy of the 1901 paper. See the full issue here!
Pages from Banker Tradesman were among the items discovered in the Old State House time capsule from 1901, the Bostonian Society revealed yesterday.
The pages of Banker Tradesman included listings for financial, legal, real estate and building information from Feb. 20, 1901. Banking Tradesman was one of five newspapers inside the capsule. Of those five, three are still in print today, including Banker Tradesman.
Others items included a McKinley and Roosevelt campaign button and a pamphlet from the Organization of the School Committee of the City of Boston.
All of the items were in “remarkably good” condition with “little fading of ink or deterioration of paper quality,” the Bostonian Society’s Library and Archives Manager Elizabeth Roscio said in a press release, which she attributed to the fact that “the time capsule was sealed so tightly that neither air nor water were able to penetrate it.”
The century-old time capsule was found in late September inside the statue of a lion that sits in the southeast corner of Boston’s Old State House.
The Bostonian Society is planning to display the time capsule materials, along with the original copper box, at the Old State House “in the near future,” according to a press release.
Here’s a complete list of all the items found in the time capsule:
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1896 (hardback book)
• Blank packing paper
• “Wood removed from the Old Lion age of same 21 years in 1900” (notation hand-written on reverse of business card for American Painting Decorating Co. and tacked onto the back of the piece of wood)
• Cabinet card of Mayor A.P. Martin [Mayor 1884] with inscription “Yours truly”
• Photograph of Nathan Matthews Jr. [Mayor 1891-94]
• Photograph of Josiah Quincy [Mayor 1896-1899]
• Photograph of Edwin Curtis [Mayor 1895]
• Sealed letter inscribed “A message to posterity from the daily newspapers at City Hall”
• Sealed letter from C.W. Ernest, Esq., mayor’s private secretary, Boston, Mass.
• Sealed letter from the Boston Traveler
• McKinley and Roosevelt campaign button
• Campaign button for John D. Long, candidate for vice president
• Samuel L. Powers for Congress campaign button
• Nail from Old South Church and a nail from the Old State House
• Unsealed letter from A.J. Rodway, describing the heraldic seal with the Lion and Unicorn
• The Banker Tradesman – pages listing the financial, legal, real estate, and building information, Vol xxix, No. 4, Feb. 20, 1901
• Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 16, 1901, advertisement of circulation
• Boston Transcript, Feb. 19, 1901, from Edw. G. Richardson, City Hall representative
• The Boston Post, Feb. 19, 1901, and Feb. 21, 1901
• The Boston Herald, Feb. 21, 1901, with leaflets of advertisings rates
• Electrotype of Boston Herald, Herald Boy
• Miniature electrotype of Boston Herald from April 11, 1900
• Die cut for printing of the Boston Herald building, 255 Washington St.
• Cabinet card of Moses Gulesian (donor of lion and unicorn statues)
• Blank piece of letterhead from M.H. Gulesian
• Business cards for S.D. Rogers Co. (Carpenters and Builders), Mr. Edwin H. Woods (publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald), G. Fred Richmond (Boston Herald), and John A. W. Silver (deputy superintendent of public buildings)
• “Organization of the School Committee of the City of Boston,” 1901 (pamphlet)
• Card with inscription “Geo. G. Proctor, 665 Sixth St., South Boston, Mass.”
• Parchment scroll listing employees of the Public Buildings Department, February 1901
• Bill for tuition and one piece of music, Jan. 1, 1901, signed by John A. Silver
• Group photograph of individuals who worked on restoration of the Old State House, dated Feb. 19, 1901
• Grand Army of the Republic lapel button
• Grand Army of the Republic badge
• Boston Journal, photograph showing the 5th Massachusetts regiment
• Fernald Family History, on electrotype
• Veterans button [GAR]
• Six photographs of GAR officials [these are pages cut out of a publication]
• Cabinet card of W. Murray Crane, governor
• Cabinet card of John B. Smith, governor’s secretary
• Cabinet card of C.G. Davis, sergeant at arms
• Cabinet card of William W. Campbell, deputy sheriff
• Cabinet card of Thomas Hart, mayor
• Cabinet card of Milton C. Paige, superintendent of public buildings
• Cabinet card of John A. W. Silver, deputy superintendent of public buildings
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department Directory, 1901
• Letter from American Painting and Decorating Co. about the work done on the Old State House, Feb. 18, 1901