Details
Title [Harbach & Brother's trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 7 prints : color engravings, engravings ; 6.5 x 11 cm. (2.5 x 4.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for Harbach & Brother's wholesale and retail printing and stationery shop at 36 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin and patriotic symbols printed in blue and red ink or embossed in the center of the trade cards, including flags, shields, eagles, cannons, bayonets, arrows, drums, cannon balls, swords, laurel wreaths and the liberty cap and pole. Harbach & Brothers were Philadelphia stationers and publishers of Civil War envelopes.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Harbach & Brother.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stationery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Patriotism.
Genre Trade cards -- 1850-1860.
Embossed prints -- 1850-1860.
Engravings -- Color -- 1850-1860.
Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Harbach [5786.F.002 & 003; 5786.F.9k; (2)5786.F.177b; (3)5786.F.163j; P.9631.2; P.2006.1.18]
Accession number 5786.F.002
5786.F.003
5786.F.9k
(2)5786.F.177b
(3)5786.F.163j
P.9631.2
P.2006.1.18