Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [I.S. Custer, Son & Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; 15.5 x 11.5 cm. (6 x 4.75 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for the millinery and fancy goods business of I.S. Custer, Son & Co. at 39, 41, & 43 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a boy hanging from a tree branch by his shirt after attempting to steal apples from a fenced-in yard with a sign reading "Keep off". A boy with a basket full of apples stands below him and watches from the ground. Also shows a girl wearing a bonnet with a red, white and blue ribbon and resting her head on her hands in a field with flowers and a butterfly. Includes two cherub-like figures, one representing "Septembre" running from a rabbit with his rifle and hunting bag, and the other, "Octobre," wearing a robe and a laurel wreath on his head and spilling wine from a goblet.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.207] die cut and shaped in an art or painting palette with advertising text for goods available within Departments A through H printed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject I.S. Custer, Son & Co.
Millinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Apple trees.
Apples.
Bonnets.
Boys.
Butterflies.
Fall.
Flowers.
Girls.
Hunting.
Putti.
Rifles.
Wine.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Custer [1975.F.149; 1975.F.199-200; 1975.F.207]
Accession number 1975.F.149
1975.F.199
1975.F.200
1975.F.207