Details
Contributor H. Gugler & Son, printer.
Title Chew, smoke Old Abe fine cut smoking, B. Leidersdorf & Co., Milwaukee, Wis. [graphic].
Publisher Milwaukee : H. Gugler & Son, gen'l lithos
Publisher WIS. Milwaukee. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph tinted with one stone ; 8 x 14.5 cm. (3.25 x 5.75 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln flanked by patriotic symbols, including an American shield and laurel wreath. Bernhard Leidersdorf and Henry Helmholtz started a tobacco factory in Milwaukee in 1858. Helmholtz left the partnership in 1869 and the firm continued operations as B. Leidersdorf & Co.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Digitized.
Biographical / historical note H. Gugler & Sons, the partnership between Henry, Sr., Julius, Robert and Henry Gugler, Jr., formed in Milwaukee in 1878, however father Henry and son Julius had both been working in the lithographic trade with various partners in Milwaukee since 1871.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
B. Leidersdorf & Co.
Tobacco industry -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Patriotism.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Leidersdorf [P.9983.1]
Accession number P.9983.1