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W. McQueenBookbinderNo. 56 Cedar -street, rear of the City HotelNew YorkNew York 1. (1821) “having carried on the bookbinding in its first style of elegancefor nearly four years, without a single advertisement in any newspaper;considers himself in duty bound to make this small acknowledgment to hispatrons”…Evening Post, (NY) eb. 13, 1821

E. McWhood *Bookbinder142 Fulton Street, Granite Building, UpstairsNew York 1.*There is a Edward McWhood, bookbinder , in the 1835 Longworth Directory at 236 Elizabeth street. Given that in note 1 below E McWhood established his business in 1845 Edward is a different McWhood or, if the same McWhood he was in the employ of someone else. 1835 Longworth Directory, pg. 4371. “established 1845… Particular attention paid to the binding of Music”page 1403 from a disbound directory(?)  sold on e-bay 11/14 /10 balance oftext illegible2. E. Mcwhood, 142 Fulton Street, New York, 1854. Trade cards of The AmericanAntiquarian Society3.”at about 12/4o’clock this mourning a fire broke out on in (sic) theLithographic establishment of Ge. w. Hatch Co. on the third floor of No. 142Fulton-street. The fire spread rapidly and in a short time the entire upperportion of the building and No. 142 adjoining, occupied by E. McWood,(sic)bookbinder: Sutton, printer; Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine and other were inflames” New York Times Feb.4, 1855.4. Edward McWhood. Greater New York, Printing Trade Blue Book A. F. Lewis1918.5.  E. McWhood 84 Fulton Street. 1930 White Orr’s Classified BusinessDirectory.

Edward McWhood*Bookbinder 236 ElezabethNew YorkNew York*There is a E. McWhood (bookbinder)who in 1845 establishes a bindery. This could be the same McWhood (1835. 1. Longworth, Directory, pg. 437

William McWhood*Bookbinderres.1465 B’wick ave.BrooklynNew York.1*see also E. McWhood Bookbindery, New York 1845 until at least 1930.1. 1897-98 Lain’s Directory Brooklyn New York

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