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[G. Byron Morse trade cards]
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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
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