Details
Contributor Craig, Finley & Co., printer.
Theo. Leonhardt & Son, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [F.T. Howell & Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : 2 chromolithographs, 1 lithograph ; 14 x 9.5 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for F.T. Howell & Co.'s paper hanging establishment at 1216 Chestnut Street and later Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, bamboo, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak) and a witch with a broom in front of a full moon, witches flying on brooms in the distant background, snakes, rodents, an owl, and a castle atop a steep cliff. Includes geometric borders.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include Theo. Leonhardt & Son and Craig Finley & Co.
One print [1975.F.406] contains advertising text printed on verso: Antique drawings for the interior decoration of walls.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject F.T. Howell & Co.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bamboo.
Cranes (Birds)
Fans (Accessories)
Moon.
Owls.
Rodents.
Snakes.
Witches.
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 - Howell [1975.F.406a; 1975.F.412a & 1975.F.442]
Accession number 1975.F.406a
1975.F.412a
1975.F.442