Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [P.R. Hansbury & Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 5 prints : chromolithographs ; 13 x 7.5 cm. (5 x 3 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for P.R. Hansbury & Co.'s furniture store at the southeast corner of Tenth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a little girl attired in a pink frilly dress trying on men's clothing, including a large collar, top hat, and jacket. Also shows vignettes of architectural elements, including light emanating from a cupola surmounted by an onion dome and a dragon boat floating in the water near a monumental archway and tower.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Two prints [1975.F.447 & 449] contain advertising text printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject P.R. Hansbury & Co.
Furniture stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Architectural elements.
Clothing & dress.
Girls.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Hansbury [1975.F.402-404; 1975.F.447; 1975.F.449]
Accession number 1975.F.402
1975.F.403
1975.F.404
1975.F.447
1975.F.449