Details
Contributor Charles A. Dixon Printing House, printer.
Rowley & Chew, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Charles Herder trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : 2 lithographs, 1 chromolithograph ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.) or smaller.
Description Illustrated trade cards with vignettes on rectos and versos depicting a roller skate, shaving knife, utensils, and an array of knives and tools. Also shows an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders aiming a revolver.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include the Charles A. Dixon Printing House (Philadelphia) and Rowley & Chew (Philadelphia).
Advertising text printed on versos promotes products manufactured, imported and repaired by Charles Herder at 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, including roller skates, ice skates, shears and scissors, razors, table cutlery, pocket cutlery, and carving and pen knives. The business of Charles Herder began in 1847 as Clarenbach & Herder, changed to L. Herder & Son in 1871 and by 1879, the style changed to Charles Herder.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Herder, Charles.
Cutlery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cutlery.
Frogs.
Revolvers.
Roller skates.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Herder [1975.F.434 & 435; 1975.F.410a]
Accession number 1975.F.434
1975.F.435
1975.F.410a