Rand, Avery & Company

Rand-Avery, also known as Rand, Avery, & Company was a printing company in Boston during the 19th century.[1] The company went bankrupt in 1888.[2][3] Rand Avery Supply Co. was a successor firm and continued into the 20th century.[4]

Map of The Boston, Concord, Montreal and White Mountains Railroad and its principal connections, 1882
Map and timetable for the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, 1879
Printed advertisement for the clipper ship Emily F. Whitney, circa 1879

History

George Curtis Rand (13 December 13, 1819 - December 30, 1878) established Rand, Avery & Company. He was related to William Rand, who was one of the founding members of Rand, McNally & Company, and Franklin Rand, publisher of the Zion's Herald.[5]

Promoter and controversial muckracker Tom Lawson (muckraker) took over the firm and liquidated it after losing a battle with its directors.[6]

The company occupied several buildings including 117 Franklin.[6]

Publications

The firm printed sailing cards, travel and sightseeing guides for rail passengers, and area histories.

It published Harriet E. Wilson's novel Our Nig in 1959.

In 1860, the firm was a printer for Walt Whitman.[7]

The firm printed the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin.[8]

It was one of the printers of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.[9] It also published Edwin M. Bacon's Dictionary of Boston in 1883 and included an advertisement insert with an engraved drawing of a printing operation.[10] It printed a herald for the Barnum and London Circus.[11]

The company printed documents for railroads including maps.[12]

Moses King worked at the firm before moving on to establish his own printing company.

References
  1. https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Rand,_Avery,_&_co.
  2. "The Rand-Avery Failure". The New York Times. October 23, 1888.
  3. "Atlantic Reporter". 1907.
  4. http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/view/people/asitem/items$0040null:10015/0;jsessionid=DFD1C5C3E93A18E1C1363912C922CB70?t:state:flow=951ff3af-c54a-4358-b6f8-abd86c779d37
  5. Rand, Florence Osgood (1898). A Genealogy of the Rand Family. Republic Press. pp. 68, 71, 72.
  6. "Massachusetts Reports". 1883.
  7. "Walt Whitman to Rand & Avery, 19 May 1882 (Correspondence) - The Walt Whitman Archive". whitmanarchive.org.
  8. Obituary Notes, New York Times, January 1879)
  9. Twain, Mark (1979-12-12). The Prince and the Pauper. ISBN 9780520906020.
  10. "Rand, Avery & Company / Franklin Press | Sheaff : ephemera". www.sheaff-ephemera.com.
  11. "CWi 6124 A-B - Barnum & London Circus". circus.pastperfectonline.com.
  12. "Search - Digital Commonwealth".
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