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[Wanamaker & Brown trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
L. Prang & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Wanamaker & Brown trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1878
Date
[ca. 1878]
Physical Description
5 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 15 cm. (3 x 6 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting head portraits of men, women, and putti with bows and arrows flanking scrolls inscribed with titles and advertising text. Other imagery includes birds, butterflies, flowers and a four horse chariot. John Wanamaker and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown opened their clothing and dry goods store, Oak Hall, at Sixth and Market Streets in 1861.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Three prints [1975.F.942, 964 & 965] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston.
Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos. One print [1975.F.948] provides historical information about Roman chariot races, which Wanamaker & Brown used as a symbol of their business. The other [1975.F.995] promotes mens' and boys' clothing and gentlemen's, youths' and boys' furnishing goods.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Wanamaker & Brown.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Birds.
Butterflies.
Chariot racing.
Chariots.
Flowers.
Putti.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Wanamaker & Brown [1975.F.942; 1975.F.948; 1975.F.964 & 965; 1975.F.995]
Accession number
1975.F.942
1975.F.948
1975.F.964
1975.F.965
1975.F.995
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