| 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 |
