Tabard Inn Studios & Shops Proclamation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated 1904, announcement of the opening of the Tabard Inn Studios & Shops as sellers of handmade home furnishings and decor, printed two colors on faux vellum, framed in a period oak frame, sight 14 1/2 x 12 1/2, frame 27 x 23 1/2 in.
Note: The Tabard Inn Studios & Shops was one segment of a series of entrepreneurial businesses that were the creation of the Canadian-born teacher Seymour Eaton (1859û1919). In Boston, his first American home, he began the Home Study Circle Library, the forerunner of numerous correspondence schools in the United States, and in 1892 he moved to Philadelphia to take charge of Drexel Institute's commercial and financial department. During his five years at Drexel, Eaton wrote a column of newspaper articles syndicated in the United States and eventually developed his home study course into a business concern known as the Library Publishing Company, which also established the Booklovers Library and published its companion enterprise, the Booklovers Magazine, from 1902 to until at least 1905.
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