| Contributor |
Hatch Lith. Co., printer. |
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Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., printer. |
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Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Title |
[B.T. Babbitt's Best trade cards] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1880 |
| Date |
[ca. 1880] |
| Physical Description |
12 prints : chromolithographs ; 11.5 x 15 cm. (4.75 x 6 in.) or smaller. |
| Description |
Series of illustrated trade cards for B.T. Babbitt's Best products. Illustrations depict children engaged in various activities,
including playing with a dog and a cat, washing laundry, fishing, and painting; children attired in adult Colonial dress with
wigs; a boy dressed in a soldier's uniform surrounded by patriotic symbols, including a sword, drum, horn, cannon, cannon
balls, and an American flag; boys chivalrously offering girls bars of soap; and vignettes of people from various nations surrounding
a bird's eye view of B.T. Babbitt's manufactory complex bounded by Washington, West, Rector, and Morris Streets in New York
City. Babbitt was purportedly the first company to manufacture and market soap in individual bars in 1851.
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| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Printers include the Hatch Lith. Co. and Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. |
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Prints contain advertising text on versos for B.T. Babbitt's Best products, including soap, baby soap, medicinal yeast, and
laundry powder. Within the illustrations, seven prints depict a box labeled "B.T. Babbitt's 1776 trademark. New York City,"
and six include the motto, "Soap for all nations. Cleanliness is the scale of civilization."
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
B. T. Babbitt (Firm) |
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Cosmetics industry -- New York (State) -- New York. |
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Soaps. |
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Children. |
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Play (Recreation). |
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Costumes. |
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Dogs. |
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Cats. |
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Patriotism. |
| Geographic subject |
Washington Street (New York, N.Y.) -- 64-84. |
|
West Street (New York, N.Y.) -- 41-51. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1880. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Provenance |
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Babbitt [1975.F.57; 1975.F.59; 1975.F.63; 1975.F.87;1975.F.89; 1975.F.91; 1975.F.92; 1975.F.100; P.8666.3e; P.8666.3f;
P.8666.3g; P.8666.3h]
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| Accession number |
1975.F.57 |
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1975.F.59 |
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1975.F.63 |
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1975.F.87 |
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1975.F.89 |
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1975.F.91 |
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1975.F.92 |
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1975.F.100 |
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P.8666.3e |
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P.8666.3f |
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P.8666.3g |
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P.8666.3h |
