Details
Contributor Graf Brothers, printer.
L. Prang & Co., printer.
M’Calla & Stavely, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [G. Byron Morse trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1876-1885
Date [1876-ca. 1885]
Physical Description 7 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 12.5 cm. (3 x 5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting various flowers; bread shaped into kipful, pinafore, twist, keyser semmel, Vienna ring, long Vienna, and short Vienna shapes; platters of fish and lobster on serving carts; a man driving a horse-drawn carriage made entirely of bread; and nets and oars partially obscured by a small landscape vignette depicting a tall rock formation.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and McCalla & Stavely (Philadelphia).
Advertising text printed on versos promotes G. Byron Morse as a "baker of genuine Vienna bread, rolls, &c." and his "dining and ice cream parlors, fine and fancy cake depot" for weddings and private and social parties at 1312 Chestnut Street and 912 Arch Street in Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Morse, George Byron.
Bakeries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice cream parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bread.
Fish.
Flowers.
Lobsters.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Morse [1975.F.582; 1975.F.585 & 586; 1975.F.619; 1975.F.624; P.9777.1 & 2]
Accession number 1975.F.582
1975.F.585
1975.F.586
1975.F.619
1975.F.624
P.9777.1
P.9777.2