Historic Business

National Ticket Company

National Ticket traces its Shamokin publishing work to 1903, its incorporation to 1907, and a rebuilt plant completed after a devastating 1942 fire.

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National Ticket Company plant on the 1929 Sanborn map1929 Sanborn map detail of National Ticket Company's Shamokin plant. This pre-fire view documents the plant and does not depict the 1942 fire.Image date: July 1929

A Shamokin Printing Business

National Ticket's own history traces publishing activity to 1903 and incorporation to 1907.

Fire and Rebuilding

The company records a 1911 plant, a 1942 fire, and a replacement completed in 1950.

A Plant Pictured Across 1911, 1950, and 1964

A centennial spread called 1907 “our beginning” and placed plant views from 1911, 1950, and 1964 beside the Ticket Avenue address. Read with the company’s separate chronology, the images document changing facilities without treating the commemorative slogan as the beginning of all publishing work.

A Shamokin Ticket Maker in 1939

National Ticket Company’s Jubilee advertisement identified the company with Shamokin and the line “If it’s a ticket we make it.” The ad confirms the business in 1939 but does not by itself prove which plant footprint was active.

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