I have never noticed the different lithography companies before. Looking at a few cards I count 3 different companies so far: Julius Bien & Co. Litho NY, Giles Litho & Liberty printing, and Donaldson. The Thompson does not seem to have a copyright and is a Giles back. Von der ahe is the Julius Bien back. I'll make some more scans of other cards this weekend. Maybe n284 should be sub-classified by back type and/or Lithography Co. I made some close-up scans that do not fit this page, so I did not include them here. I'll try to resize them tomorrow. The backs are difficult to read without magnification for me.
Note the McCormick is a Giles back with an 1887 copyright.
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