Details
Creator L. Prang & Co.
Contributor M’Calla & Stavely, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title H.M.S. Pinafore, for the benefit of the Penna. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Friday afternoon, April 25, 1879. [graphic].
Publisher Boston : L. Prang & Co
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1878
Date c1878
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 11 cm. (2.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description Illustrated stock trade card depicting three putti standing and sitting near potted plants, flowers, and vines. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was organized in November 1876 and chartered in January 1877.
Notes Advertising text on verso printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila.
Advertising text printed on verso promotes the benefit performance of Sullivan & Gilbert's comic opera "Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore" and includes a list of characters and actors.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Theatrical productions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Benefit performances.
Flowers.
Plants.
Putti.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Pennsylvania [1975.F.349]
Accession number 1975.F.349