Advertisement placards [graphic].
Henry C. Spalding & Co.
Edward Phalon & Sons.
Glue.
Hair preparations.
Women.
Children.
Lady's maids.
SP1 Women.
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.
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.
[New York]
PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, compiler.
Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler.
October 1859
Lithographs -- Color -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
2 prints : color lithographs with hand coloring mounted on paper; 26 x 18 cm. (10.25 x 7.25 in.) or smaller.
Islandora:60902
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