Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Higgins' German laundry soap trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 11.5 x 8 cm. (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards with the captions, "come buy your buttercup, dear little buttercup, Higgins' German laundry soap" and "What, never? No, never! What, never? Hardly ever! Without Higgins' German laundry soap." Illustrations depict a sailor and a woman holding hands and two sailors flirting with a woman, both scenes on the deck of a boat. Both women carry baskets.
Notes Advertising text promoting J. Sheldon Barber's cider establishment at 920 Market Street printed on versos: "The healthiest drink in the world." "Invalids can use it with entire safety." "Pure sweet cider made fresh every day from carefully selected apples, for sale by the glass, gallon or barrel. Pure cider vinegar, cider jellies, boiled cider and choice apples always on hand. J. Sheldon Barber, 920 Market Street, Philadelphia. All styles of boomer & boschert presses for sale."
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Barber, J. Sheldon.
Charles S. Higgins Company.
Beverage industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cider.
Cosmetics industry.
Soaps.
Courtship.
Sailors.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Higgins [1975.F.28 & 1975.F.76]
Accession number 1975.F.28
1975.F.76