| Title |
John F. Patton, York, Penn'a. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[York, Pa.] : [publisher not identified] |
| Date |
[ca. 1880] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet x cm ( x in.) |
| Description |
Trade card promoting John D. Patton and depicting a catamaran with a dragon on the sail. Shows a vignette of a wooden catamaran
with a red sail decorated with a dragon traveling on the water. Four men, attired in white shorts, sit and stand on the boat.
A large crane and other birds fly in the sky. Vignette is set over a red background with decorative leaves and a scroll with
the advertising text. John F. Patton relocated to York, Pennsylvania from Baltimore and started his drug business in 1869.
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| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Dare inferred from content. |
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Advertising text printed on verso: You will never go amiss, if you go to Wallick’s Book Store, to make your purchases, books
and stationery, pictures & frames, and a great variety of fancy goods. Remember Wallick’s Book Store. The city drug store
is the best place in York, to buy drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, perfumery, &c., &c. and John F. Patton, is
the man to sell them to you, and don’t you forger it.
|
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Gift of William H. Helfand. |
| Subject |
Patton, John F. approximately 1839- |
|
Borders (Ornament areas) |
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Catamarans. |
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Dragons. |
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Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- York. |
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Men. |
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Orientalism. |
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Pharmacists -- Pennsylvania -- York. |
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- York. |
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Sailors. |
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AAPI. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1880. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Patton [P.9828.6582] |
| Accession number |
P.9828.6582 |
