| Contributor |
Hoover, Joseph, 1830-1913, printer. |
|
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Title |
[Kennedy Bros. trade cards] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1880-1882 |
| Date |
[ca. 1880-1882] |
| Physical Description |
6 prints : chromolithographs ; 7 x 10 cm. (2.75 x 4 in.) |
| Description |
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds and a butterfly embellished by a geometric border; flowers in baskets; and
portraits of women personifying a rose and a daisy by wearing large buds as hats. By the early 1880s, Kennedy Bros. was operated
by Jacob and Harry Kennedy.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Three prints [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470] contain logo "J.H." printed on rectos. Most likely printed by Joseph Hoover. |
|
One print [1975.F.482] contains advertising text printed on verso: Fall opening, 1880. Kennedy & Bros., No. 1218 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, announce the opening of their importation of French millinery, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 28th
& 29th.
|
|
Five prints contain advertising text printed on versos: At Kennedy's new store, 1404 Chestnut Street may be found all the
latest novelties in Paris millinery. Trimmed bonnets & round hats, feathers, ribbons, plushes, velvets, flowers, etc., etc.
|
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
Kennedy Bros. |
|
Millinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Baskets. |
|
Birds. |
|
Butterflies. |
|
Flowers. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1890. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1890. |
| Provenance |
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Kennedy [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470; 1975.F.472 & 473; 1975.F.482] |
| Accession number |
1975.F.444 |
|
1975.F.469 |
|
1975.F.470 |
|
1975.F.472 |
|
1975.F.473 |
|
1975.F.482 |
