Samuel Crump Label Co.

The Samuel Crump Label Co. was a late-19th-century American lithographic printing firm based in New York that specialized in high-quality chromolithography for commercial and decorative purposes. Like many firms of the period, it produced product labels, advertising ephemera, pictorial prints, and work requiring technical expertise in multi-stone lithography.

Chromolithography reached its peak in the 1870s, and companies such as Crump’s catered to a growing international market for richly colored printed materials, including maps, views, and promotional graphics. The firm’s imprint appears on a variety of surviving labels and illustrated works of the 1880s, indicating that it possessed the equipment and labor force necessary for complex color printing on a large scale.