| Contributor |
Chas. Shields' Sons, printer. |
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E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer. |
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Hatch Lith. Co., printer. |
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Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Title |
[A.C. Yates & Co. clothing trade cards] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[United States] |
| Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1876-1882 |
| Date |
[ca. 1876-ca. 1882] |
| Physical Description |
30 prints : 29 chromolithographs and 1 lithograph tinted with one stone ; 9 x 13.5 cm. (3.5 x 5.25 in.) or smaller. |
| Description |
Series of illustrated trade cards for A.C. Yates & Co. clothing store, which began operations on the ground floor of the Public
Ledger Building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia in 1876. Illustrations depict a bust portrait of William Penn
and Penn's treaty with the Indians to commemorate the Penn Bicentennial (1682-1882); children walking in the snow and carrying
sprigs of holly; a boy sitting on a bare tree limb under a smiling moon serenading cats from sheet music labeled "Au Clair
de la lune"; couples on the beach painting, reading by moonlight, and embracing behind the privacy of a large umbrella; swans
swimming with flower garlands in their beaks; a traveling hunting party, including two men mounted on horses with a large
group of hounds; three bystanders watching a man paint a large sign for A.C. Yates & Co. onto a brick wall; birds; sprays
of flowers; two women and a man ice skating together; children blowing bubbles; children tumbling to the ground after hoisting
one another to grab canisters from the top of a pantry; putti holding grotesque masks; and a view of Fairmount Park from Belmont,
showing well-dressed couples sitting and walking in the park, a horse-drawn carriage and a man riding horseback on a dirt
path in the foreground, and bridges spanning the Schuylkill River in the background.
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| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Printers and engravers include Hatch Lith. Co. (New York); Chas. Shields' Sons (New York); and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia). |
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Eighteen prints contain advertising text printed on versos. |
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Two prints contains calendars for 1881 printed on versos. |
|
One print [P.9057.52] contains a manuscript note on verso: A.N. Fisher, card with which she read the three volumes of "The
Dutch Republic" winter of '77 & '78. The ending of the books were nicer than the rest. Suge? of Leipsig--very good--& you
couldn't help being interested in persons, places & performaces. Wm. of Orange's nearly only despicable characteristic was
having spies and thru them interrupted [?].
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Portraits. |
|
A.C. Yates & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682. |
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Beaches. |
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Birds. |
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Boats. |
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Bubbles. |
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Carriages & coaches. |
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Cats. |
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Children. |
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Couples. |
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Falling. |
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Flowers. |
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Hunting. |
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Hunting dogs. |
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Ice skating. |
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Moon. |
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Painting. |
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Putti. |
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Reading. |
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Serenading. |
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Sign painting. |
|
Swans. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1890. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1890. |
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Calendars -- 1870-1890. |
| Provenance |
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Yates [1975.F.679; 1975.F.907; 1975.F.1013 & 1014; 1975.F.1016; 1975.F.1018-1032; P.8666.3i-3l; P.8666.3p; P.8666.3z;
P.9057.52; P.9642.7; P.9802.12]
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| Accession number |
1975.F.679 |
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1975.F.907 |
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1975.F.1013 |
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1975.F.1014 |
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1975.F.1016 |
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1975.F.1018 |
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1975.F.1019 |
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1975.F.1020 |
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1975.F.1021 |
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1975.F.1022 |
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1975.F.1023 |
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1975.F.1024 |
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1975.F.1025 |
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1975.F.1026 |
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1975.F.1027 |
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1975.F.1028 |
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1975.F.1029 |
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1975.F.1030 |
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1975.F.1031 |
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1975.F.1032 |
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P.8666.3i |
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P.8666.3j |
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P.8666.3k |
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P.8666.3l |
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P.8666.3p |
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P.8666.3q |
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P.8666.3z |
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P.9057.52 |
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P.9642.7 |
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P.9802.12 |
