Details
Contributor Craig, Finley & Co., printer.
L. Prang & Co., printer.
M’Calla & Stavely, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [J.W. LeMaistre trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 12 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 14.5 cm. (3.25 x 5.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds; flowers; putti carrying a pine tree or Christmas tree; children holding up a large sign for J.W. LeMaistre; a lady attired in Renaissance or Medieval clothing; a woman standing on a tree branch over a body of water releasing fish she caught in her lace shawl; General Ulysses S. Grant smoking while standing on a globe labeled "United"; and children symbolizing various countries by wearing traditional clothing and carrying the countries' flags, including England, Italy, and Spain.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and lithographers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), McCalla & Staveley (Philadelphia) and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia).
Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting products imported and sold by J.W. LeMaistre, including embroideries, laces, curtains, handkerchiefs, collars, cushions, silk ties and bows, and bibs sold at his 46-48 North Eighth Street establishment in Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Portraits.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Silk industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Textiles industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Birds.
Children.
Clothing & dress.
Flags -- Europe.
Flowers.
Putti.
Smoking.
Women.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - LeMaistre [1975.F.492; 1975.F.498; 1975.F.501; 1975.F.508-512; 1975.F.514; P.9811.1 & 2; P.9838]
Accession number 1975.F.492
1975.F.498
1975.F.501
1975.F.508
1975.F.509
1975.F.510
1975.F.511
1975.F.512
1975.F.514
P.9811.1
P.9811.2
P.9838