Details
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, compiler.
Title Advertisement placards [graphic].
Publisher [New York]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date October 1859
Physical Description 2 prints : color lithographs with hand coloring mounted on paper; 26 x 18 cm. (10.25 x 7.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Advertisements employing sentimental genre scenes to promote New York proprietors of "Spaldings Prepared Glue" and "Phalon & Son's Cocin for the Hair." Glue advertisement shows a mother using "Spaldings" to make a repair. She sits at a table and brushes the glue on the leg of an overturned stool as her children surround her, including a small girl holding a horse figure and an older girl holding a toddler. Scene also includes drapes, a framed painting on the wall, and a broken bowl next to the glue bottle. Hair oil advertisement shows a lady's maid applying oil to her mistress's long, dark hair in a boudoir. The lady sits at a vanity, while her children play with a hairbrush at her feet near their toys. Advertisement also shows a glass enclosed vase of flowers on a table below a framed portrait of a mustached man.
Notes Date from Poulson inscriptions.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Henry C. Spalding & Co.
Edward Phalon & Sons.
Glue.
Hair preparations.
Women.
Children.
Lady's maids.
SP1 Women.
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 1 [(1)2526.F.77 & 88]
Accession number (1)2526.F.77
(1)2526.F.88