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[Trade cards for Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A60593
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Title
[Trade cards for Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.] [graphic].
Publisher
[Cincinnati]
Publisher
OH. Cincinnati. 1860-1869
Date
[1860-1869]
Physical Description
5 prints: 2 chromolithographs and 3 color lithographs mounted on paper; 8 x 12 cm. (3.25 x 4.5 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for the Cincinnati lithographers, engravers, and printers. Imagery includes an allegorical female figure seated near objects symbolic of the arts and sciences, including a paint palette, compass, globe, and books and scenes of a farmer at his plow, a traveling locomotive, and sailing vessels on the ocean. Other pictorial details include ornate frames surrounding advertising text. Frames contain scrolls and bunches of grapes. The premier firm established in 1856 operated as Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co. between 1860 and 1869.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Color lithographs printed in either blue, green, or violet ink.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.
Lithographers -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Farming.
Vessels.
Railroad locomotives.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.146e, h, j- l & o]
Accession number
P.9349.146e
P.9349.146h
P.9349.146j
P.9349.146k
P.9349.146l
P.9349.146o
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Stein & Jones Specimens Album
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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