Details
Contributor Ketterlinus Printing House, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Bound Brook Route trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Ketterlinus, Philad'a
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a comical, theatrical scenario with two boys, a girl, a dog, and a thermometer. The boys court and fight over the girl, whose desires seem to change with the season. Additional imagery includes flowers and one of the boys reading. The Bound Brooke Route, operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, operated between Ninth and Green Streets in Philadelphia and New York City. Route opened about 1876 and capitalized on the Centennial celebration in Philadelphia.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on rectos: "19 trains daily, between Philadelphia and New York. Low fare, quick transit, perfect equipment. New York. Trenton. Elizabeth. Long Branch." Prints also contain tables of schedules for train stops between Philadelphia and New York on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Courtship.
Boys.
Girls.
Dogs.
Reading.
Quarreling.
Flowers.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Bound [1975.F.45; 1975.F.86; 1975.F.90]
Accession number 1975.F.45
1975.F.86
1975.F.90