[Fold & find 18 changes metamorphic trade card promoting Water Lily Soap]
Orcutt Litho Co.
printer
Keefe, Joseph I.
distributor
still image
Graphic
Trade cards -- 1880-1890
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890
Metamorphic pictures -- 1880-1890
Portraits -- 1880-1890
ilu
Chicago
ILL. Chicago
Orcutt Lith. Co.
[ca. 1885]
1885
monographic
eng
1 print: chromolithograph; sheet 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.), folded to 10 x 7 cm. (4 x 2.5 in.)
Metamorphic trade card containing six bust-length portraits of three men and three woman with changeable upper and lower facial features. Female portraits depict a young, middle age, and older woman. The younger women wear hats and coats with collars. The older woman scowls and wears a bonnet and collared shirtwaist. Male portraits depict an older man, young gentleman, and gypsy figure. The older man is depicted bald-headed with a beard, in an undershirt, and frowning; the gentleman wears a top hat, cravat, and suit; and the gypsy figure is portrayed with a smirk, earring, and a Phrygian shaped red cap. Also contains several lines of advertising text, including "All my clothes are Lily white, Water Lily Soap maded them bright"; Water Lily Soap moves dirt & smell"; and "Alas I'm troubled, blue and sad, All other Soap but Water Lily's bad."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Name of distributor printed on recto and verso: Joseph I. Keefe, General Agent. 35 South 2nd Street. Philadelphia, Pa.
Forms part of Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection.
Cosmetics industry
Clothing & dress
P.2011.10.34x
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.34x]
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