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[Illustrated letter seals containing admonitions] [graphic].
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Title
[Illustrated letter seals containing admonitions] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1860
Date
[ca. 1860]
Physical Description
9 prints: color wood engravings; 3 x 3 cm.(1.25 x 1.5 in.), 4 x 2 cm.(1.5 x .5 in.), or smaller.
Description
Series of single and parts of sheets of illustrated letter seals containing humorous, positive, and negative admonitions. Illustrations predominantly depict modes of transportation, including a sailing ship, steam boat, and locomotive and animals, including a cat holding a rat, parrot, slug, frog, bat, and dog. Other images show a blacksmith, a well, rings, flowers, a house, a church, a couple in an embrace, and a bundle of wheat. Admonitions include "Good Eye"; "All's [Well]"; "Friendship, Love, Truth"; "Stop Your Clatter"; "Forget Me Not"; "I Bear the Hopes of Many"; "How I Love You"; "Contentment"; "Remembrance";"Fidelity"; "We Bloom Today, Tomorrow Die"; "The Road"; "You Deserve Thrashing"; "News"; "Express"; "Slow But Sure"; "Keep Dark"; "God Bless You"; "Are You Musical"; "Strike While the Iron's Hot"; and "Memory."
Notes
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject
Advice.
Animals.
Blacksmiths.
Churches.
Couples.
Dwellings.
Flowers.
Seals and labels (Philately)
Transportation.
Wells.
Wheat.
Genre
Stickers -- 1850-1860.
Wood engravings -- Color -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.177.1-9]
Accession number
P.2011.10.177.1
P.2011.10.177.2
P.2011.10.177.3
P.2011.10.177.4
P.2011.10.177.5
P.2011.10.177.6
P.2011.10.177.7
P.2011.10.177.8
P.2011.10.177.9
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