COLLECTION NAME:
Illustrations from Life
Record
Title:
Colt: Flat Like a Book in the Pocket
Description:
Quarter page advertisement for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. Colt's Manufacturing Company (formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is a United States firearms manufacturer, founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt. Colt is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century. Colt's earliest designs played a major role in the popularization of the revolver and the shift away from earlier single-shot pistols. While Samuel Colt did not invent the revolver concept, his designs resulted in the first very successful ones.
Subject:
Advertising, Magazine
Subject:
Colt firearms
Subject:
Periodicals -- Illustrations
Subject:
Weapons
Date:
03/02/1905
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
9 1/2 x 11 inches
Format/Medium:
Advertisements
Format/Medium:
Illustrations (layout features)
Source:
Life, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
Volume 45, number 1166, page 270.
