Tudor Press
Tudor Press (fl. 1910 - 1967) was a Boston based lithograph, offset, and letterpress printer active in Boston throughout the 20th century. They were founded by Ralph Harland Wilbur (1875 - 19??). Wilber learnt the printing trade at the Melrose Journal, a job and book printing business. He struck out on his own, founding Tudor Press in 1910, with offices on Causeway Street, Boston. Ralphs children, Harland, Alvra, and Wesley joined the firm in the 1920s. The press acquired its first four-color offset press in 1940 and was active in printing maps for the war effort. Harland took over the firm in 1941. After World War II, the firm was contracted to issue military currency for U.S. Occupation forces. In 1967, it was relocated to Lawrence, Massachusetts and renamed Graphic Litho. Harland's son Ralph E. Wilbur, took over the firm in 1968. While the name Tudor Press is no longer used, Graphic Litho remains in business.
One of the great female pioneers of pictorial cartography.
Map of Massachusetts The Old Bay State.
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An uncommon 1930 pictorial map of Massachusetts issued by Tudor Press and Elizabeth Shurtleff, one of the most prominent female pictorial mapmakers. The map covers all of Massachusetts with vignette cartoon illustrations of various towns. Considerable focus is placed on industry, and many towns are highlighted with factory and/or mill illustrations. Indications of the merchandise produced there are also noted, including knit goods, shoes, jewelry, optical goods, textiles, etc. Other illustrations reference events of the American Revolutionary War. Surrounding the map are decorative armorial crests celebrating the many distinguished institutions of learning located throughout Massachusetts. Among them are Harvard, the Roxbury Latin School, Williams, Phillips Andover, the Bradford Academy, Amherst, Wheaton, the Abbot Academy, Mount Holyoke, Holy Cross, Tufts, MIT, Boston College, St. Marks, and Boston University. (more details)