Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston]
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : 3 chromolithographs and 1 lithograph tinted with one stone ; 7 x 12 cm. (2.75 x 4.75 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for patent medicines and an almanac created by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations depict sirens with an "Ayer's hair vigor" shipping crate, hair brushes, and product bottles near a wrecked ship and stranded sailors; a girl holding flowers under a cherry tree in the countryside; Penn's Treaty with the Indians in 1682 with two men kneeling and presenting an "Ayer's cherry pectoral" scroll to the Native Americans; and two men and an apprentice with a printing press in a scene labeled "The invention of printing". J.C. Ayer & Co. operated in Lowell, Massachusetts from about 1850 to 1930.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Three prints [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9; 1975.F.11a] contain advertising text on versos for products prepared by J.C. Ayer & Co. including "Ayer's hair vigor" and "Ayer's cherry pectoral".
Printed on verso of print P.9111.11: To Bennie from Aunt Florence George. Eat drink and be merry and now will be happy all of the days of your life.
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.
Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
Patent medicines.
Hair preparations.
Grooming.
Myths.
Sirens (Mythology).
Shipwrecks.
Oceans.
Girls.
Printing.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Ayer [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9a; 1975.F.11a; P.9111.11]
Accession number 1975.F.2
1975.F.9a
1975.F.11a
P.9111.11