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American Machine Co. manufacturers of hardware specialties, N.E. cor. Lehigh Ave. amd American St., Philadelphia.
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Contributor
Hunter, Thomas, printer.
Title
American Machine Co. manufacturers of hardware specialties, N.E. cor. Lehigh Ave. amd American St., Philadelphia. [graphic] : Specialties: American ice cream freezer, gem ice cream freezer, star ice cream freezer, crown ice cream freezer, crown ice chipper, American, crown, knox and eagle, fluting machines, crown hand fluter, perfection counter scales [with automatic action.], automatic potato scales, Mrs. Potts' cold handle sad irons, A.M. Co's clothes wringer, American cake mixer, American tobacco cutter, American tobacco shave, etc.,
Publisher
Philadelphia : Thos. Hunter, lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 7.5 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description
Trade card illustrated by six blonde putti frolicking outdoors around an "American Freezer" in a barrel labeled "American Machine Co." Includes four winged angels that play with arrows and a shield.
Notes
Advertising text and "specialties" list printed on verso for the American Machine Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Subject
American Machine Co.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Putti.
Freezers.
Shields.
Bows (Archery)
Geographic subject
Lehigh Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 200 block.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - American Machine [P.9994]
Accession number
P.9994
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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